Living Classical with Tyler Kline for June 21 - 27, 2026

On this edition of Living Classical with Tyler Kline: Juhi Bansal's Land of Waking Dreams begins in the desert backcountry, under a night sky: pointillistic stars, shifting blues, wind across open plateaus. Written for solo piano, the piece moves through that murky nightscape the way the eye moves across darkness: slowly, finding shapes.

Then: Orun, in the Yoruba religion, is both an origin and a destination – the invisible dimension where ancestral wisdom accumulates and flows back into the living world. Marcos Balter's piece of the same name traces that cycle, shaped by the Yoruba concepts of family, connectivity, and the consciousness passed down through ancestral bloodlines.

Plus music by Curtis Stewart, Margaret Brouwer, Alex Dowling, Yoshi Weinberg, Meera Gudipati, Anne Drummond, Hilary Kleinig, Alice Ping Yee Ho, Noah Meites, and Bent Sørensen.

Featuring performances by violinist Tai Murray; flutist Benjamin Smolen with violinist Dennis Kim, cellist Warren Hagerty, and pianist Orli Shaham; flutist Joshua Stine; English hornist Jacqueline Leclair; clarinetist Tasha Warren; cellist Dave Eggar; guitarist Phil Faconti; flutist Anne Drummond; percussionists David Schommer and Keita Ogawa; cellist Hilary Kleinig with electronics; pianist Christina Petrowska Quilico; Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra String Quartet; Bowling Green Philharmonia; New Thread Quartet; and Trondheim Sinfonietta.

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

Hour 1

• Inspired by Dolly Parton, 9 to 5 from Curtis Stewart’s 24 American Caprices

• Margaret Brouwer’s Parallel Isolations

• Cloud White Loops (Slow Exhale) from Alex Dowling’s Breathers

• Juhi Bansal’s Land of Waking Dreams

• Some People are Flowers by Yoshi Weinberg

• Meera Gudipati’s Ashakiran “Ray of Hope”

• Quintet for Two by Anne Drummond

Hour 2

• Urgent by Hilary Kleinig

• Alice Ping Yee Ho’s The Chinese Nightingale

• Orun by Marcos Balter

• Noah Meites’s Fracture Mechanics

• Minnelieder – Zweites Minnewater by Bent Sørensen