Aspen Public Radio, Aspen Music Festival and School team up this summer
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The Aspen Music Festival and School (AMFS) and Aspen Public Radio have teamed up again this summer to broadcast the AMFS’ Sunday concerts live throughout the greater Roaring Fork Valley..
“We are delighted to partner with Aspen Public Radio again in sharing our Sunday concerts with the Roaring Fork Valley and beyond,” says Laura Smith, vice president for marketing and communications, in a press release. “Here in our 75th anniversary season, we are especially highlighting the vision of our founders, Walter and Elizabeth Paepcke, and their idea that art and ideas are for everyone. They are something to be shared broadly — in Walter’s words, ‘without walls.’ And these free broadcasts do just that, bring the music to everyone.”
The weekly broadcast will be hosted by longtime classical music host Chris Mohr, allowing listeners the opportunity to listen to these afternoon concerts live on Aspen Public Radio at 91.5 in Aspen and 88.9 throughout the Roaring Fork and Colorado River valleys, from Aspen to Glenwood Springs, Rifle to Eagle, and online at aspenpublicradio.org.
“I first heard an Aspen Festival Orchestra concert 44 years ago, and I haven’t missed a year since,” shared Mohr in regards to his anticipated return to the host chair, in a prepared statement. “For so many of us, these Sunday afternoon concerts are an important part of our musical experience. I’m thrilled to have the honor of hosting these live performances on Aspen Public Radio every Sunday this summer, complete with interviews of Music Festival musicians and a wonderful soundscape provided by the engineers at the Festival, fed live into our radio station, and into your favorite listening environment.”
He will also be producing and broadcasting “Festival Notes” each morning to inform the community what is happening at the festival each day; and the station will be archiving each week’s “High Notes” lecture series event alongside 2023 and 2022 recordings as part of Aspen Public Radio’s “Ideas, Speakers & Lectures” initiative, available at aspenpublicradio.org/high-notes.
“We are so excited to be broadcasting these concerts again in 2024, alongside daily announcements of what not to miss at this year’s 75th anniversary celebration, and our online audio archive of remarkable community events, including High Notes,” shared Breeze Richardson, executive director of Aspen Public Radio, in the release. “This festival is an important part of our community, and we’re honored to be connecting listeners to such amazing local content for free.”
Concerts to be carried live take place at 4 p.m. each Sunday and will include:
- June 30 — Renée Fleming, “Pines of Rome”
- July 7 — Hadelich, Rachmaninoff’s “Symphony No. 2”
- July 14 — Beethoven “Triple” with Bell, Isserlis, Denk
- July 21 — Slatkin conducts Copland, Gershwin
- July 28 — Mahler, “Symphony No. 9”
- Aug. 4 — Midori, “Pictures at an Exhibition”
- Aug. 11 — Malofeev plays Rachmaninoff
- Aug. 18 — Spano conducts Wagner, Ohlsson Plays Liszt
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