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Mohr interviews Conrad Tao during the 2025 Aspen Music Festival

Aspen Public Radio | By Chris Mohr
Published July 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM MDT
Conrad Tao at piano and 53-note-to-the-octave keyboard
Conrad Tao at piano and 53-note-to-the-octave keyboard

Pianist and composer Conrad Tao opened the 2025 season of the Aspen Music Festival with a Rachmaninoff-themed recital, which also featured jazz and pop songs inspired by the Russian-born American composer. In this interview, Conrad talks about why he chose to focus on Rachmaninoff and his profound influence on American music.
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Chris Mohr
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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