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Aspen Music Festival And School Convocation June 24 with Conrad Tao

On June 24, hundreds of students, a hundred teachers, and a brass section of 60 people convened for the annual Convocation. Starting with a rousing Strauss work, the featured speakers included Robert Spano, Alan Fletcher, and keynote speaker Conrad Tao. Here are some highlights, including an  impassioned speech from Conrad Tao covering a wide range of topics from deep listening to climate change.

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.