Festival Notes - August 5th, 2014

Aspen Public Radio | By Chris Mohr

Published August 5, 2014 at 8:57 AM MDT

Today is Tuesday, August 5th.

A free Spotlight Recital today at noon at the beautiful Aspen Chapel showcases top student talent.

At 1 today in Harris Concert Hall, cellist Alisa Weilerstein gives a master class. Her solo recital will be tomorrow at 8:30pm in Harris.

At 4pm today, the American Academy of Conducting at Aspen Orchestra gives a free concert featuring this summer’s conducting students. The winner of the brass/percussion competition will play a concerto, and the tragic and beautiful 6^th Symphony of Tchaikovsky concludes the program.

Finnish pianist Juho Pohjonen plays Ballades of Grieg and Brahms and all four of the Chopin Ballades tonight at 7:30pm in Harris Concert Hall.

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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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