Living Classical with Tyler Kline for February 15 - 21, 2026

On this edition of Living Classical with Tyler Kline: History can move – not just through words, but through bodies in motion. In A Green Double, composer Anthony R. Green draws on Black history and classical tradition to create a dance suite where protest, reflection, and joy share the same ground.

Then: Ideas take root slowly — shaped by care, knowledge, and adaptation – in the String Quartet 2.5 by George Lewis, titled Playing with Seeds. Here, the composer treats the string quartet as a cultivated landscape, where musical "seeds" develop through motion, reversal, and growth.

Plus, music by Evan Blache, Nia Imani Patterson, Shaka Marko, Katahj Copley, Shawn E. Okpebholo, Evan Williams, Hannah Kendall, J. Kimo Williams, and Tyondai Braxton.

Featuring performances by Matt Haimovitz, cello; Olivier Blakney, French horn with James Coghlin, piano; Will Liverman, baritone with Paul Sánchez, piano; Lindsey Goodman, flute; Louise McMonagle, cello; Tracy Silverman, electric violin with Apollo Chamber Players; Unheard-of//Ensemble; The Lowell Chamber Orchestra; Saxophone in Progress Duo; Mivos Quartet; and Wordless Music Orchestra.

Join Tyler Kline for this edition of Living Classical – exploring the full spectrum of classical music being made today.

Hour 1

• Grey Night by Evan Blache

• Nia Imani Patterson’s Afro-dite

• The Green Double: A Historical Dance Suite by Anthony R. Green

• Shaka Marko’s Rhumba Pembeni

• K-R-O-N-O by Katahj Copley

• Shawn E. Okpebholo’s Two Black Churches: The Rain

Hour 2

• switch from Evan Williams’ if/else

• Hannah Kendall’s Hot Summer No Water

• String Quartet 2.5: Playing with Seeds by George Lewis

• J. Kimo Williams’ With Malice Toward None

• Platinum Rows by Tyondai Braxton