A quick one this week – just to say “hello,” hope you are well, and you can find the week’s offerings below, along with a preview of what’s on the horizon.

Now streaming: Living Classical Episode 8 for February 15 - 21, 2026

On this week's Living Classical with Tyler Kline, music shaped by history, motion, and growth. Anthony R. Green's A Green Double draws on Black history and classical tradition to create a dance suite where protest, reflection, and joy share the same ground, while George Lewis's String Quartet 2.5 (Playing with Seeds) treats the string quartet as a cultivated landscape where musical ideas develop through motion, reversal, and adaptation.

Also featured: music by Evan Blache, Nia Imani Patterson, Shaka Marko, Katahj Copley, Shawn E. Okpebholo, Evan Williams, Hannah Kendall, J. Kimo Williams, and Tyondai Braxton.

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Episode 078: Navigating Composition Without a Map (featuring Tyler Kline)

Tyler Kline reflects on an unlikely mix of influences – from The Artist's Way to a business minor to mentoring moments that rewired his sense of musical punctuation –that shaped his journey as a composer.

Episode 079: Endurance, Memory, and Meaning (featuring Sean Hamilton)

Sean Hamilton shares how his relationship with composer Stuart Saunders Smith – and the challenge of performing Smith's Queen Anne's Lace – prepared him for the large-scale improvisational practice that now defines his creative work.

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Next week on music/Maker, composer Nicky Sohn talks about community as the engine of her practice, storytelling drawn from Korean folktales, and writing with broader listenability in mind. She and Tyler discuss her path from early piano studies through burnout and a reset in Berlin, how a love of jazz shapes her sense of motion and harmony, and how a weekday routine and life outside music have brought balance and new brightness to her work.

Listen beginning Thursday, February 26 wherever you get podcasts.

Coming up on a new Living Classical, it’s music shaped by resilience and memory. Leila Adu-Gilmore's For Edna honors quieter endurance—perseverance, openness, and the ability to remain connected in the face of strain—while Daniel Bernard Roumain's It Feels Like a Mountain, Chasing Me weaves spoken recollection with music, tracing how family history, loss, and care shape who we become.

Also featuring pieces by Tomeka Reid, Patrice Rushen, Brittany J. Green, Jace Clayton, Lauren McCall, Derrick Skye, Yaz Lancaster, Matana Roberts, Ayanna Woods, Tyshawn Sorey, and Julius Eastman.

Listen beginning Sunday, February 22 on Mixcloud or livingclassicalradio.com.

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