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

On this edition of Living Classical with Tyler Kline: We perceive inner light through eyes—contrasts of color influenced by emotion, memory, weather, the surrounding world. Ileana Pérez Velázquez's Lights of lives flowing from your eyes traces how light is drawn into the body and shines back out. It's music that moves between reflection and perception, shaped by a line from Matthew's gospel.

Then: Repetition as structure and accumulation as gesture form the foundation of Zeynep Toraman's a lifetime of annotations, a work that reimagines nineteenth-century orchestral repertoire through the lens of a Mahlerian slow movement. The piece folds fractal explorations of melodic lines in on themselves—a long melody, a lament, a moment in the process of disappearing.

Music by Ileana Pérez Velázquez, Zeynep Toraman, Grace-Evangeline Mason, Fumiko Miyachi, Dobrinka Tabakova, Caterina Schembri, Allison Loggins-Hull, Yu-Hui Chang, Angélica Negrón, and Jimena Maldonado.

Featuring performances by Michelle O'Rourke, voice with Ficino Ensemble; Jihye Chang, piano; Clara Levy, violin; Biliana Voutsckova, violin; Judith Hamann, cello; Stephanie Lamprea, voice; Alistair MacDonald, electronics; Laura Sinnerton, viola; Lyrebird Brass; Nunc; BBC Concert Orchestra; and Ensemble Pi.

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

Hour 1

• As Bronze by Grace-Evangeline Mason

• Fumiko Miyachi’s L.S.

• Lights of Lives flowing from your eyes by Ileana Perez Velazquez

• Dobrinka Tabakova’s Organum Light

• Sea salt and turpentine by Caterina Schembri

• Allison Loggins-Hull’s The Pattern

Hour 2

• Mind Stretch by Yu-Hui Chang

• Zeynep Toraman’s String Trio: a lifetime of annotations

• Letras para cantar by Angélica Negrón

• Jimena Maldonado’s Where There Is Wood Is Now Water