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Mohr interviews Conrad Tao during the 2024 Aspen Music Festival

Conrad Tao appeared in Harris Hall on July 15 with an orchestra to perform the extra-jazzy version of Rhapsody in Blue and a new work of his own. He talks with Chris Mohr about how Gershwin inspired him as he composed his new work.

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 ninth summer working for Aspen Public Radio.