Living Classical with Tyler Kline for March 8 - 14, 2026

On this edition of Living Classical with Tyler Kline: Kimberly R. Osberg's Seek What You Want to Find was written in response to Henk Pander's paintings of Portland's 2020 protests, as well as the 1948 Vanport flood that displaced nearly twenty thousand people. The text by S. Renee Mitchell urges us to look closer, to find hope without dismissing the violence. The piece ends on a thick, ambiguous chord, asking: What do you see?

Then: Hilda Paredes wrote Epitafio in memory of her mother, who passed away in Mexico City in early 2021 – far away, unreachable during the pandemic. Brass players move on and off stage, a poetic metaphor for distance and impossible travel. And then: electronics granulate and filter the sound, shifting the harmonic spectrum as the ensemble moves through space.

Music by Pura Fé, Clarice Assad, Akemi Naito, Daijana Wallace, Mary Prescott, Gabriela Ortiz, Martha Redbone, Susanna Hancock, Haeyun Kim, and Halina Rice.

Featuring performances by Dover Quartet; New York City Guitar Orchestra; William Moersch, marimba; Resonance Ensemble with Cecille Elliott, soloist; Madeline Ross, soloist; John K. Cox, soloist; DeReau K. Farrar, soloist; Kivie Cahn-Lipman, cello; Adam Tendler, piano; Alison Bjorkedal, harp; Allison Allport, harp; Lynn Vartan, steel drum; Tasha Warren, clarinets; Dave Eggar, cello; Martha Redbone, voice and percussion; Chuck Palmer, percussion; ~Nois; Cecilia Kang, clarinet with WanYun (WYHD); Ensemble Aventure; and BBC Concert Orchestra.

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

Hour 1

• Grammah Easter’s Lullaby from Pura Fé’s Rattle Songs

• Clarice Assad’s Magnetic Trance

• Memory of the Woods by Akemi Naito

• Kimberly R. Osberg’s Seek What You Want to Find

• Shades by Daijana Wallace

• Mary Prescott’s What It Becomes

• Rio de las Marioposas by Gabriela Ortiz

Hour 2

• Black Mountain Calling by Martha Redbone

• Susanna Hancock’s HIATUS

• Epitafio by Hilda Paredes

• Haeyun Kim’s Poetree

• The Path by Halina Rice