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Mohr interviews Renee Fleming during the 2024 Aspen Music Festival

Soprano Renee Fleming sang a world premiere of Alan Fletcher's Three American Songs with the Aspen Festival Orchestra on June 30. Here she talks about the new work, and her work with the talented young singers in her opera program.

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.