Festival Showcase: Guitarist Sharon Isbin And Opera Composer Missy Mazzoli

By Chris Mohr

Published July 26, 2019 at 2:21 PM MDT

Guitarist Sharon Isbin talks about her new CDs, her upcoming concert with Jessica Rivera, the importance of immigrants to our country, and much more.

Missy Mazzoli, composer of the one-act opera Proving Up, talks about life in the prairies in the nineteenth century when the Homestead Act was giving out free land to families who could prove themselves up.

A first ever broadcast of an excerpt of one of Sharon Isbin's Rumi collaborations with Isabel Leonard is also included.

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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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