Aspen Music Festival and School - Festival Showcase
Fridays at 2:30 p.m.
Join host Chris Mohr for an inside look at The Aspen Music Festival and School's summer season. Each Friday throughout the summer, Chris will feature exclusive and insightful interviews with AMFS artists, conductors, faculty, and students.
Latest Episodes
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Pianist Joyce Yang talks up her Gershwin concert June 30 and her recital July 3, 2019. Alan Fletcher and Asadour Santourian talk about the upcoming 2019…
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Our final Festival Showcase of the 2018 summer season includes a wrap-up conversation with Alan Fletcher and Asadour Santourian, who tip their hands and…
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Pianist Lise de la Salle is committed to communicating emotion in as simple and direct a way as possible. Violinist Sarah Chang talks about her many…
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Music's most famous stalker, Hector Berlioz, composed his Symphonie Fantastique to impress a famous actress after suicide threats and impassioned letters…
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Offenbach's greatest opera, Tales of Hoffman, is the only opera we know of where the hero falls in love with a nineteenth century wind-up doll, a dying…
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This week we talk with guitarist Sharon Isbin in anticipation of her concert August 9, and Tenor Ben Bliss (who sings Britten on August 10 and 13).
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Mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton sings Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde this Sunday at 4:00, and talks about everything from opera directors who have Carmen kill…
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Chris Mohr chats with members of the Pacifica Quartet, pianist Anton Nel and Disney conductor Richard Kaufman. On July 30, the Festival Orchestra joins…
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Alan Fletcher shares his experiences during the evacuation from his home during the fire; the American Brass Quintet talks up their July 19 concert;…
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A chat with conductor Nicholas McGegan about his July 12 concert and pianist Orli Shaham's July 14 recital.