Mohr interviews Karen Slack during the 2024 Aspen Music Festival

Aspen Public Radio | By Chris Mohr

Published August 6, 2024 at 3:29 PM MDT

Karen Slack commissioned several composers to create "African Queens," a collection of songs celebrating queens who reigned in African nations -- and their achievements in battle and in statecraft -- over the millennia. Slack will play a concert on Aug. 7 at 7:30 p.m. in Harris Concert Hall. Chris Mohr interviewed Slack in a live broadcast on Sunday, Aug. 4.

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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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