Robert Spano Sends us out to The Planets

Aspen Public Radio | By Chris Mohr

Published August 20, 2025 at 7:50 AM MDT

Aspen Music Festival and School Music Director Robert Spano conducts the final massive concert of the 2025 summer season with Beethoven's Emperor Concerto and Holst's The Planets. APR's Chris Mohr caught up with him to talk about the young conductors, the season, and much more.

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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.

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