On this week’s Living Classical: Place, Procession, and New Worlds

Plus: conversations about wit, intuition, and creative trust on a pair of new micro/Maker episodes.

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Tyler Kline
January 16, 2026

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This week’s Living Classical leans into music shaped by place and imagination – from Eleanor Alberga’s Langvad to Dai Fujikura’s Vast Ocean II – and the way sound can carry us through unfamiliar landscapes.

I’ve also got two new micro/Maker episodes this week: one about humor and play as compositional tools, and another about trusting intuition and letting meaning surface on its own. Happy listening!

🎧 New on the Feed

📻 Living Classical with Tyler Kline

Now streaming: Living Classical Episode 3 for January 11 - 17, 2026

On this week’s Living Classical, music unfolds through ideas of place and perspective. The program features Eleanor Alberga’s Langvad, inspired by a small Danish village and shaped as a slow, processional journey, alongside Dai Fujikura’s Trombone Concerto, Vast Ocean II, which imagines a soloist encountering an unfamiliar world for the first time.

Plus, music by Darius D. Edwards, Zhou Long, Victoria Bond, Carlo Nicolau, inti figgis-vizueta, Reza Vali, and Ambrose Akinmusire.

🎙 micro/Maker

Episode 069: Cribbage, Comedy, and Composition (featuring Chris Opperman)

Chris Opperman talks about using humor, play, and audience awareness as serious compositional tools — from witty conceptual projects to chance-driven experiments that keep contemporary music lively and accessible.

Episode 070: Anatolia as a Mother Language (featuring Beyza Yazgan)

Beyza Yazgan reflects on a process guided by instinct and improvisation, where identity, memory, and the idea of Anatolia emerge only after the music is written, revealed through careful listening rather than intention.

Episodes are released every Tuesday and Friday. Subscribe now!

🔜 Coming Up Soon

Next week’s Living Classical explores how meaning takes shape through language, structure, and sudden shifts in perspective. From music inspired by the first thrill of discovering words to works shaped by volatility, interruption, and unexpected turns, this music zooms in on moments when everything changes.

Featuring music by Dale Trumbore, Anthony Cheung, Dawn Avery, Kalaisan Kalaichelvan, Connor D’Netto, Linda Kernohan, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Shuying Li, Carrie Frey, Mischa Salkind-Pearl, and Lara Weaver, with performances by Wilhelmina Smith, Cecilia Kang, Angela Park, Courtenay Cleary, Adam Chalabi, Nicholas Phillips, The Rhythm Method, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Ludovico Ensemble, and Crash Ensemble.

Stream beginning Sunday, January 18 – wherever you listen to Living Classical.

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