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Festival Notes - August 18, 2015

  Today is Tuesday, August 18th.
A free Spotlight Recital takes place today at noon in the beautiful Aspen Chapel.
At 1 in Harris Concert Hall, Donald Weilerstein, father of cellist Alisa Weilerstein, gives a violin master class.

At 4 today in the Benedict Music Tent, the season’s final free concert by the American Academy of Conducting at Aspen Orchestra showcases top conducting students in Beethoven’s 2nd Piano Concerto and 3rd Symphony, “Eroica.”
The final Music with a View recital of the season will be presented this evening at 6 on the rooftop terrace of the Aspen Art Museum. Admission is free.
The first of three performances of Mozart’s opera Cosi fan tutte will be given tonight by the Aspen Opera Theatre Center at 7 at the Wheeler Opera House. Relationships are tested in this comedy brimming with flirtation, seduction, mistaken identities, and exquisite music. Jane Glover conducts, and the production is directed by James Robinson. Other performances take place Thursday and Saturday at 7.
Described as “ferociously talented” and dubbed a musician of “probing intellect and open-hearted vision,” 21-year old Aspen alumnus Conrad Tao returns to Harris Concert Hall tonight at 7:30 to perform works by Rzewski, Copland, Ravel and Schumann. 
 

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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