Living Classical with Tyler Kline for May 24 - 30, 2026

On this edition of Living Classical with Tyler Kline: Immigration rarely accounts for the emotional cost of leaving–the grief, the inner conflict, the world you build in your mind versus the one you find. Joe Kye's Safe Harbor holds all of it, weaving Korean and American folk music with his own text into a piece that moves from a childhood lullaby to a personal mantra for rooted self-empowerment.

Then: Lei Liang first encountered the folk music of Taiwan's aboriginal tribes as a college student–and never got over it. Song Recollections treats each song as a landscape to travel through, the string quartet guiding the listener across the inner terrain of music Liang describes simply as magical.

Along with music by Yang Bao, Rob Funkhouser, Edwin Guevara-Gutiérrez, Sayo Kosugi, Andrea Casarrubios, Jlin, Aaron Siegel, and Thurídur Jónsdóttir.

And performances by Yang Bao, piano and synthesizer; Maria Collinsworth, soprano; Joe Kye, soloist and violinist with Resonance Ensemble; Jennifer Craig, harp; Pierre Fontenelle, cello; Emily Manzo, piano; Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir, cello; Borderlands Ensemble; Sound Ecologies Chamber Orchestra; Third Coast Percussion; and Formosa Quartet.

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

Hour 1

• Human and I by Yang Bao

• Rob Funkhouser’s Where is your reason now?

• Safe Harbor by Joe Kye

• Ironwood from Edwin Guevara-Gutiérrez’s Saguaro Suite

• Nebula, Blooming by Sayo Kosugi

• Andrea Casarrubios’ SEVEN

Hour 2

• Please Be Still by Jlin

• Lei Liang’s Song Recollections

• Boat Song from Aaron Siegel’s Time in Water

• Thurídur Jónsdóttir’s 48 Images of the Moon