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Festival Showcase August 9, 2019 - Renee Flemming, Nancy Allen, Stefan Jackiw, Chris Theofanidis

Harpists Nancy Allen and Katherine Siochi, photo courtesy Aspen Music Festival

Alan Fletcher talks about Renee Fleming and Patrick Summers and plans for next year's opera program. We also catch up with harpist Nancy Allen, violinist Stefan Jackiw, and composer Christopher Theofanidis.

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.