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Festival Notes - July 7th, 2014

Today at 5pm, a competition for wind players takes place at Edlis Neeson Hall on the Bucksbaum Campus.

The winner will be the soloist on next week’s Academy of Conducting at Aspen Orchestra concert.

A varied program of chamber music featuring the intensely dramatic Shostakovich Piano Quintet in G minor will be presented at 6pm today in Harris Concert Hall.

Tomorrow at 4pm in the Benedict Music Tent, the Academy of Conducting at Aspen Orchestra Piano Competition Winner will perform Mozart’s celebrated Piano Concerto No. 24, about which Beethoven remarked to a fellow composer, “We shall never be able to do anything like that.”  The concert is free.

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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