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Hollywood Bowl Conductor Scott Dunn Plays Music from the Second Golden Age of Hollywood

Scott Dunn, Eye Surgeon and Conductor.
Scott Dunn, Eye Surgeon and Conductor.

When Scott Dunn got performance anxiety, he quit music and became an eye surgeon, but music called him back. He laughed when I told him that if things go wrong in a concert, you hit a wrong note, but in the operating room, your patient could go blind!

He talks about the movie music many of us grew up with from the 50s, 60s and 70s, and his piano concert of some of the greatest movie music of all time.

Classical music reporter Chris Mohr has loved classical music since he was twelve. “And I owe it all to radio,” Chris explains. “I grew up in a farm town east of Cleveland. One day I turned on the local classical radio station. They were playing Vivaldi, and it was like the gates of heaven opened up to me!" Chris is also a composer, and is working on a 53-note-to-the-octave oratorio, "Melodies of the Shoreless Sea." This is his 11th summer working for Aspen Public Radio.