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Drummer Jonathan Haas's Percussion Extravaganza Monday evening August 4

Haas and his monster drum.
Haas and his monster drum.

Percussionist Jonathan Haas has played with Frank Zappa, Philip Glass, Phil Collins and countless other great musicians, and Monday evening at Harris concert Hall, he and 18 of his students will be playing hundreds of different percussion instruments in a wildly varied program of music. He chats with Aspen Public Radio's Chris Mohr about his concert and his work drumming his way through decades of summers here in Aspen.

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.