Living Classical with Tyler Kline for November 8-15, 2026

On this edition of Living Classical with Tyler Kline: Rachel Carson warned that pesticides were linked to cancer, even as she was dying of it herself. In Gabriela Lena Frank’s elegy The Edge of Everything, a narrator speaks as Carson while a string quartet answers her, carrying what words alone can’t hold.

Then: Creation stories from a striking range of cultures begin the same way: with a vast, primordial ocean from which the universe emerged. Carlos Bandera’s Materia Prima starts there, with brief impulses falling like drops of water into a still sea, sending ripples through its calm.

Music by Karen Lemon, Tina Davidson, Kalevi Aho, Theresa Wong, and Toru Takemitsu.

Featuring performances by pianist Ann DuHamel; narrator Nina Totenberg; violinist J Freivogel; cellist Rachel Henderson Freivogel; pianist Natalie Zhu; organist Jan Lehtola; harpist Laura Hynninen; cellist Theresa Wong; biwa player Kinshi Tsuruta; shakuhachi player Katsuya Yokoyama; Pacifica Quartet; Lahti Symphony Orchestra; American Composers Orchestra; and Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam.

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

Hour 1

• Forgive Them Not, For They Know What They Do by Karen Lemon

• Gabriela Lena Frank’s The Edge of Everything: Elegy for Rachel Louise Carson

• Tremble by Tina Davidson

• Kaukaisia lauluja (Distant Songs) from Symphony No. 17 (Symphonic Frescoes) by Kalevi Aho

Hour 2

• Theresa Wong’s Prayer to Avalokiteśvara

• Materia Prima by Carlos Bandera

• Toru Takemitsu’s November Steps