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Mohr interviews Conrad Tao during the 2024 Aspen Music Festival

Aspen Public Radio | By Chris Mohr

Published July 25, 2024 at 5:28 PM MDT

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.

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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 ninth summer working for Aspen Public Radio.

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