One of the great things about running your own business is you can kind of just make your own rules (within reason) when necessary.

After a busy two-month stretch of two artist residencies, performance material preparation for an upcoming orchestra reading, attempting to cross the finish line with a new piece (very expansive) piece for alto sax + piano, and the regular day-to-day radio and podcasting things I do… needless to say, it’s certainly felt like I’ve crash-landed into the month of May.

Why am I saying all this? Last week I had planned to put out 3 new micro/Maker episodes… but, it just ended up being too much. But, it wasn’t too much to play a little catch up on that, so that means you’re getting FOUR new micro/Maker episodes this week. If you haven’t listened to this podcast, I hope you’ll add it to your weekly, or even daily, listening schedule.

Check those out below, but that’s not all. This week on Living Classical I’m excited to be joined by my friend and constant musical collaborator Eunmi Ko, president and co-founder of the Tampa-based Contemporary Art Music Project. They just wrapped up their 2026 CAMPGround festival in March, and it was great to learn more about what this organization does and hear a bit of music that happened at the festival.

Finally, next week we cross a major milestone with the music/Maker podcast: Episode 50! I’ve got more details about that here… so, read on, and thanks for sticking with me!

Now streaming: Living Classical Episode 18 for April 26 - May 2, 2026

On this edition of Living Classical with Tyler Kline: Allison Loggins-Hull wrote Legacy for The Cleveland Orchestra's community series, partnering with organizations preserving Ukrainian bandura traditions, the Hough neighborhood's history, and Black American theatrical artistry. A recurring vocal theme faces interruptions and reinterpretations but remains recognizable – much like legacy itself.

Then: Tyler is joined by Eunmi Ko, president of Contemporary Art Music Project in Tampa, Florida. They discuss the recent 3-day CAMPGround, which took place in early March, and listen to two commissions by the organization presented at this year's festival.

Plus music by Dolores O'Riordan/The Cranberries (arr. Ashley Jackson), Michi Wiancko, Gabriela Lena Frank, Caterina Schembri, Ian Gottlieb, Louis Andriessen, Francesca Guccione, Andrew M. Rodriguez, Mojan Alaiyeh, and Youshin Gim.

View the playlist & listen: https://www.looseleaftransmissions.com/post/living-classical-with-tyler-kline-for-april-26-may-2-2026

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Episode 104: Entering New Music Through Radical Stylistic Inclusion (featuring Annika Socolofsky)

Annika Socolofsky describes how Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble showed her music-making could be radically inclusive, and how she's fought against aesthetic gatekeeping ever since, teaching students it's okay not to like every piece because classical music shouldn't treat works as precious and untouchable.

Episode 105: Blurring the Boundaries of Composition and Improvisation (featuring Sean Hamilton)

Sean Hamilton shares how improvisation became central to his artistic voice, explaining how environmental and emotional factors shape every performance and why he's moved away from traditional notation toward compositions that live at the intersection of the fixed and the fluid.

Episode 106: Stitching Stories Through Sound (featuring Shelley Washington)

Shelley Washington reflects on how her lifelong love of textiles – inspired by her mother's artistry – finds its way into her musical thinking, from modifying vintage fashion to composing pieces like uniforms where fabric, memory, and creativity are tightly interwoven.

Episode 107: Seeing Sound in Color (featuring Charly Daniels)

Charly Daniels talks about synesthesia as the core engine of how he writes – hearing harmony as color, sensing timbre as light or shadow, and shaping form through visual landscapes that unfold in his mind, where clarinets glow blue, strings bloom green, and harmonies brighten into orange or sink into brown.

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Next week of the music/Maker podcast, I’m excited to be joined by composer Brittany J. Green.

In our conversation, Brittany traces a path from slamming her fingers on a neighbor's piano as a five-year-old to writing a piece for clarinet about the rock cycle in sixth grade – to a music education degree, a master's at East Carolina, and a doctorate at Duke – arriving at a practice where composition, theory, activism, and teaching are all expressions of the same driving question: what can music actually do?

We talk about Black feminist theory as a structural methodology rather than a theme, about whether a piece of music can itself be a form of political action, about silence as an active compositional element, about the DIY music scenes of Durham and Louisville, and about the experience of finding yourself as a composer — and then trying to get lost again.

Stream beginning on Thursday, May 7 wherever you get podcasts, or at musicmakerpodcast.com!

And on a new Living Classical (streaming from Sunday, May 3): Faith, doubt, and the will to persevere – Sarah Kirkland Snider's Forward Into Light traces the emotional and psychological terrain of the American women's suffrage movement, built around a musical quote from the movement's own anthem.

Then: In theory, there is only one horizon, but in lived experience, there are two: the visible horizon, shaped by everything that surrounds us, and the true horizon, the full unobstructed reach of sky meeting earth. John Luther Adams's Horizon moves between those two ideas, tracing both as measures of space and time.

Also featuring music by Marc Mellits, Valerie Coleman, Gabriela Ortiz, Carrie Frey, and Dai Fujikura.

Listen on Mixcloud or at livingclassicalradio.com!

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