Living Classical with Tyler Kline for July 12-18, 2026

On this edition of Living Classical with Tyler Kline: Anchored by the anthem "Lift Every Voice and Sing," Omar Thomas's Of Our New Day Begun is built from the traditions of the Black American church – singing, stomping, clapping, the sound of refuge in trying times. Thomas wrote it in memory of the nine lives lost at Charleston's Mother Emanuel church in 2015, holding both grief and grace in the same music.

Then: Inkjaw by Luke Garrigus blends traditional notation with hand-drawn graphic-score elements, opening space for the performers to make their own interpretive decisions – a musical wilderness mirroring the unpredictability of natural aquatic systems. Inspired by a line from Rachel Carson's The Sea Around Us, the piece is part creature, part elegy.

Music by Santiago Cañón-Valencia, Homayoun Sakhi, Viet Cuong, Laura Schwendinger, Reena Esmail, Veronika Wu, Shane Shanahan, Didi Gu, and Jeffrey Mumford.

Featuring performances by cellist Santiago Cañón-Valencia; clarinetist Joshua Ranz; violinist Dennis Kim; cellist Warren Hagerty; pianist Orli Shaham; pianist Ann DuHamel; bass-baritone Edmund Milly; soprano Savannah Porter; tablaist Sutanu Sur with Santa Fe Desert Chorale; cellist Tomoki Tai; violinist Ariana Kim; percussionist Shane Shanahan; Unheard-of//Ensemble; Apollo Chamber Players; Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra with Leotha Stanley Chorale; Forward Motion; and Avalon Quartet.

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

Hour 1

• Ascenso Hacia lo Profundo by Santiago Cañón-Valencia

• Homayoun Sakhi’s String Quartet No.1: Tolo (Sunrise)

• Of Our New Day Begun by Omar Thomas

• Viet Cuong’s Wax and Wire

• Air (from Magic Carpet Music) by Laura Schwendinger

• Reena Esmail’s The Tipping Point

Hour 2

• Breathing in the Dark Ocean from Veronika Wu’s Under the Ocean

• Shane Shanahan’s Audacity

• Inkjaw by Luke Garrigus

• Didi Gu’s Washerwoman

• in forests of evaporating dawns by Jeffrey Mumford