Living Classical with Tyler Kline for June 14 - 20, 2026

On this edition of Living Classical, Tyler Kline marks Juneteenth with music by living Black American composers. Featured this week: Ahmed Alabaca's Mere Mortals, holding to the conviction that human life is precious and deserves compassion; Alvin Singleton's Time Past, Time Future, a piece that moves between Thelonious Monk and Bach in search of balance; Valerie Coleman's Tracing Visions, which shifts between an elegy and a Zulu battle cry for unity; and a setting of a Harlem Renaissance love poem by Shawn E. Okpebholo.

Plus music by Carlos Simon, Marie A. Douglas, Shelley Washington, Damien Geter, Kevin Day, Courtney Bryan, Evan Williams, Allison Loggins-Hull, and Alice Coltrane.

Featuring performances by violinist Teagan Faran with flutist Leo Sussman; violinist Caitlin Edwards with pianist Daniel Schlosberg; speakers Maria Collinsworth, Cecily Kiester, and Dereau K. Farrar with Resonance Ensemble; pianist Awadagin Pratt with A Far Cry; pianist Artina McCain; violist Eliesha Nelson with cellist Brian Thornton; tenor Lawrence Brownlee with pianist Kevin J. Miller; harpist Ashley Jackson with Harlem Chamber Players; Members of the Chamber Winds of South Dakota; Les Percussions de Strasbourg; Duo Aya; Ensemble Pi; and Sphinx Virtuosi.

Join Tyler Kline for this special Juneteenth edition of Living Classical — celebrating the full spectrum of classical music being made today.

Hour 1

• stir crazy by Carlos Simon

• Marie A. Douglas’s Tray

• Sunday by Shelley Washington

• Ahmed Alabaca’s Mere Mortals

• After Time Has Gnawed Away the Shield of Dreams by Damien Geter

• Alvin Singleton’s Time Past, Time Future

• The Sun Will Shine Again by Kevin Day

Hour 2

• Carnival for Unity by Courtney Bryan

• Evan Williams’s Cycles

• Patchwork by Allison Loggins-Hull

• Valerie Coleman’s Tracing Visions

• Romance by Shawn E. Okpebholo

• Alice Coltrane’s Prema