Aspen Public Radio is partnering with the Aspen Music Festival and School for the fourth year to broadcast the 4 p.m. Sunday Aspen Festival Orchestra concerts live each week throughout the greater Roaring Fork Valley.<\/p>\n
Broadcasts begin Sunday, July 5.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis iconic Festival is such a big part of summer in Aspen; it\u2019s been an honor to get a broadcast agreement in place to provide this live, local programming for our listening audience, thanks to the Aspen Music Festival and School,\u201d Breeze Richardson, executive director of Aspen Public Radio, said in a press release.<\/p>\n
The weekly broadcast will be hosted by longtime classical music host Chris Mohr, offering listeners, wherever they are, the opportunity to hear the afternoon concerts live on Aspen Public Radio at 91.5 FM in Aspen and 88.9 FM throughout the Roaring Fork and Colorado River valleys, according to the press release. Those from Aspen to Glenwood Springs, Rifle to Eagle and online at aspenpublicradio.org<\/a> or through the Aspen Public Radio app will be able to tune in.<\/p>\n \u201cFor generations, the Sunday orchestral concerts at the Music Tent have been a defining part of the Aspen summer experience. We\u2019re proud to continue our partnership with Aspen Public Radio, bringing these extraordinary performances to listeners throughout our community and around the world through free live broadcasts,\u201d AMFS Munroe President and CEO Alan Fletcher said in the release.<\/p>\n The first Sunday concert will have the Festival Orchestra and features music from\u00a0\u201cNixon in China,\u201d an opera with rhythmic pulse that will be sung with two world-class singers: Ren\u00e9e Fleming and Thomas Hampson, along with a choir. <\/p>\n Mohr, in anticipation of his return for a 12th year hosting these broadcasts, added in the release \u201d \u2026 then Copland\u2019s monumental Symphony No. 3, which includes his \u2018Fanfare for the Common Man.\u2019 What a great American program. I love that our Music Director Robert Spano always conducts the opening and closing Sunday concerts every season!\u201d<\/p>\n He will also be producing and broadcasting \u201cFestival Notes\u201d each morning, informing the community about what is happening at AMFS each day beginning Monday, June 29.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cLooking across the 2026 season, I love the combination of works by living composers alongside the great classics,\u201d he said in the release.<\/p>\n On Aug. 9, Mahler\u2019s First Symphony will be a tribute to his beloved Alps, where Mohr noted in the release that Mahler hiked every summer.<\/p>\n \u201cThe same day, that vast orchestra also plays music of Carlos Simon and Jessie Montgomery,\u201d he continued. \u201cThese days, it\u2019s incredibly easy to listen to music by composers we may not know and then try to guess why their piece might have some common theme with our beloved favorites.\u201d<\/p>\n As an ongoing part of this partnership with AMFS, the station will also archive each week\u2019s \u201cHigh Notes\u201d lecture series event and make it available online, alongside recordings of the series dating back to 2022 as part of Aspen Public Radio\u2019s \u201cIdeas, Speakers & Lectures\u201d initiative, available at \u00a0aspenpublicradio.org\/high-notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s absolutely become part of my morning listening each summer to hear what concerts are taking place each day, I am delighted we will have one more season of \u2018High Notes\u2019 hosted by Alan Fletcher to go behind the scenes with festival musicians and hear more of their stories, and I love how much long-time listeners and visitors alike enjoy these Sunday concerts on Aspen Public Radio,\u201d Richardson said in the release.<\/p>\n Concerts to be carried live will include:<\/p>\n July 5 \u2014 Festival Orchestra: Opening Sunday with Ren\u00e9e Fleming and Thomas Hampson<\/p>\n July 12 \u2014 Festival Orchestra: Weilerstein Plays Dvo\u0159\u00e1k<\/p>\n July 19 \u2014 Festival Orchestra: Hadelich Plays Barber<\/p>\n July 26 \u2014 Festival Orchestra: Piano Sensation Daniil Trifonov<\/p>\n Aug. 2 \u2014 Festival Orchestra: Thibaudet Plays Gershwin<\/p>\n Aug. 9 \u2014 Festival Orchestra: Mahler\u2019s First Symphony<\/p>\n Aug. 16 \u2014 Festival Orchestra: Malofeev Plays Rachmaninoff<\/p>\n Aug. 23 \u2014 Festival Orchestra: Beethoven\u2019s Ninth Symphony<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aspen Public Radio is partnering with the Aspen Music Festival and School for the fourth year to broadcast…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-533757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}