Good afternoon I'm Chris Morris with classical music from Aspen Aspen Public Radio the official voice of the Aspen music festival and school will be featuring 2 American composers coming up this hour and a very special monumental Monday oftentimes we do one big long work but today we're going to do a number of monumental works maybe some excerpts to give you some great climactic music for your Monday afternoon we will keep you awake I promise you and we are in the midst of our pledge driver and the beginning of the final days of our pledge drive as a matter of fact so I would like to talk to you if you are a classical music lover to you personally because I know you love classical music I see you I don't know who you are necessarily personally but the tent is filled up with so many of us the Harris hall fills up with so many of us there Wheeler opera house fills up with so many of us you may be one of those people who makes a pilgrimage every summer to spend as much time as you can hear any Aspen and you listen to Aspen Public Radio and enjoy the classical music features that are right here on Aspen Public Radio as well so I may not know who you are personally but I know that there are a lot of you there and a lot of you you don't even get enough from all the live music while you're at home kind of relaxing and enjoying your lunch you're also enjoying classical music right here on Aspen Public Radio there is an incredible infrastructure that has been put together to make it possible for you to have your pilgrimage every summer up to Aspen the tent the Harris hall the all the musicians the students who are so fantastic a big big part of that and a very important part of that infrastructure of the entire valley for Aspen is Aspen Public Radio and so I'm calling on you right now to pledge your support to Aspen Public Radio to say I love classical music so much I am so addicted to classical music that I want to support this part of the classical music. Is that I have every summer when I'm here this is of course talking to the people that are here just for the summer but if you're here all year and you're also an aspen music festival fanatic I'm encouraging you to do the absolute same now there's a number of ways to do this you can just pick up the phone or call 920-9000 that number is actually there's 2 ways to do this actually when you call $91000.00 We'll tell you more about it you can just make a single pledge for the course of the year but we also encourage you to consider a monthly evergreen membership that's the most convenient way to support Aspen Public Radio so decide now right now while you're going to be listening to this next piece of music how much you want to give every month there can be $10.00 a month 1520 $5.00 a month use your credit card to sign up online or over the phone that's it your membership is up to date from now on become an evergreen member online at Aspen Public Radio dot org feed your addiction call 920-9000 thinks thank you so much we all love classical music and we're all here for the same reason in Aspen and we're enjoying it quite a bit and so continue to enjoy it here on the radio 920-9000. This summer the after music festivals theme of Paris City of Light explores present composers and those who were inspired by the capital city now in the mid 1920 s. George Gershwin stayed in Paris for a short period he applied to study composition with among others now the boomers a mery surveille Arnold Schoenberg and Igor Stravinsky and they all rejected him as a was afraid that the rigors of classical study would ruin his jazz influenced style Ravel said why should you be a 2nd rate rebel when you can be a 1st rate Gershwin and I think it might have been Stravinsky actually who asked Gershwin how much money he made him and Gershwin told him Stravinsky said I should take lessons with you Stravinsky later insisted that the exchange never took place and he claimed that before either neckers when he had heard the money story from Ravel Here's the fantasy for violin and orchestra Grossman's Porgy and Bess arranged by Alexander courage or hear Joshua Bell and the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by John Williams was shot. Yeah. A little. Bit. RINGBACK One thing. There's. Oriole. The land. Borders. The be. Come. And. Joshua Bell violin in the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by John Williams in the fantasy for violin and orchestra in Porgy and Bess by George Gershwin. This is Aspen Public Radio listen anytime online at Aspen Public Radio dot org their support for Aspen Public Radio comes from the red brick presenting director's invitation a gallery exhibition currently on view featuring local artists Sean Benton Mary Conover Chris Cox Wally Graham Shelley Merrill it and George and wagon one more ad red brick Aspen dot com and support also comes from the Ask a music festival and school presenting are recycled by the Pacific a quartet playing works of Beethoven bartók shall saw tomorrow at 730 at Harrah's concert hall more at Aspen music festival dot com. I'd like to mention also that the Pacifica quartet is going to be on my show tomorrow that's festival showcased every Tuesday at $330.00 during the summer and the Pacifica quartet to their members are going to be talking about that concert and their careers in general and their lives as parents and all kinds of things so do stay tuned for that as well and all of that is also made possible by you the listener the individual listener actually gives the majority of the money that we get every year for Aspen Public Radio for our support and now they're in the middle of a pledge drive I want to remind you that we are counting on your support we want to see $500.00 in pledges come in in the next hour and a half to show that there is support for classical music on Aspen Public Radio and that it is continuing it is ongoing we've gotten a lot of support from classical music lovers in the past and now it's your turn it's your turn to pick up that ball and call 920-9000 show your support for having classical music on Aspen Public Radio give us a call 920-9000 or if you'd rather just go to Aspen Public Radio dot org If you're a new tech person and you can securely make your pledge they are an evergreen evergreen pledge is a powerful gesture a monthly commitment to Aspen Public Radio in the great music that you hear hear. Means you're willing to stand up and be counted counted as the next donor growing public radio community so we're looking for new contributors during this drive individuals listeners with personal reasons for listening like the love of classical music personal reasons for caring about the community with individual commitments to supporting independent meaningful news coverage and classical music given the amount that is right for you maybe $15.00 a month as an evergreen member but you pick that amount maybe you can call us and just make a $500.00 pledge that happens sometimes we love it when people just pick up the phone and say hey I'm just going to give you $500.00 I can afford it I can do this and I want to show my support and love of classical music on Aspen Public Radio 920-9000 is the number or Aspen Public Radio dot org And thank you hey let's go back to music that's why we're here right. Today 6 pm chamber music and Harris concert hall includes Roy Harris's concerto for piano clarinet and string quartet Harris was born on Lincoln's birthday in Lincoln County Oklahoma or coincidence that impressed him to such a degree that the shadow of Abe Lincoln inspired much of his music he was the son of a farmer had his own farm by the time he was 18 and drove a dairy cart to cover his expenses a music school in 1940 he wrote his folk song symphony as an effort to reflect the feelings of a nation deeply committed in World War 2 the use the songs the Gro I left behind me western cowboy Martin your love song Negro fantasy and when Johnny Comes Marching Home to the movements are interludes for string orchestra and percussion So let's hear Harrison's folk song symphony with the American Festival Chorus and orchestra Vladimir Goldsman our conductor. Was. RINGBACK From the full song symphony of Roy Harris we heard the American Festival Chorus an orchestra conducted by Vladimir gold in honor of the Roy Harris music that's going to be performed at 6 o'clock at the chamber music concert tonight or Harrah's concert hall That'll be all instrumental the Harris concerto for piano clarinet and string quartet. Harris born on a farm and had a kind of a pharmacy folksy sort of quality to some of his American music support rest on public radio comes from the youth mountaineer a family owned and operated outdoor specialty store serving the Aspen area since 1977 the ute offers clothing equipment and footwear for hiking running backpacking and climbing more information at youth near dot com. Well as we have been saying quite a bit here and has been public radio we're in the midst of our pledge drive in just a few days left and you can take us over the top get us closer to our goal get us closer to the summit by making a pledge at 9 to 09000 right now if you like classical music and there's a wide variety of music that is called classical like this folksy thing that we just heard which is actually almost like more like folks are arrangements with orchestra and other works that are very very modern sounding to some that are very classic sounding and there's a wide range and when you listen to Aspen Public Radio get exposed to all the different styles that are out there because that's what happens with the ask of music festival in school and since we're the official voice of the after music festival in school I think it's important that we expose people to a wide range of classical music not the kind of thing that you might get if you just play your own C.D.'s at home or if you choose your own favorite music that you pick up kind of at random This is a little bit different because here at Aspen Public Radio we give you opportunities to hear music that you won't hear on your own and I think that's very exciting Colace if you agree at 92029000 again 920-9000 we want to raise $500.00 and you could do that alone I want to do that by 3 o'clock today and we're going to start a monumental Monday just a little bit early Now it's possible that you have never given before please know that ask the public radio is here now because someone else before you took that 1st step from being a listener to being a member of Aspen Public Radio individual contributions from thousands of listeners give Aspen Public Radio the money that we need to pay for the programs you listen to every day if you count on the Aspen Public Radio either just as a summer guest of Aspen or as somebody who it lives here all the time anywhere up and down the valley whether you whether you're hearing us on the rifle or whether you're hearing us in Glenwood Springs we haven't heard any anybody from Carbondale for a while now so. That would be a great town to hear from Call us at $9.00 to 09000 again we would love to have you be a part of that just a gift of $10.00 a month pays for hundreds of hours of listening all year all summer it ensures you have the programs that you love and that they're available for yourself and for the next listener the number to call 920-9000 or Aspen Public Radio dot org Well we're going to jump into monumental Monday a little bit early sometimes we started around the 2 o'clock hour but let's start right now and I'm going to start with the final 2 movements of Mahler's 5th Symphony the adagio is oftentimes excerpted and very very commonly so and it's just one of the most beautiful and expressive pieces of music that Mahler ever wrote it says as one of his real hard honestly pieces which is of course why it's so popular and then after that a magnificent triumphant monumental finale the Rondo finale Let's take a listen to both of these the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra you're probably familiar with those and with that orchestra since Robert Spano conducts it but this is going back a little bit in this recording you will levy and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in part 3 the adagio and the Rondo finale of Gustav Mahler symphony number 5 and while you're enjoying this monumental Monday and all the monumental pieces I'm going to be playing in the next hour and 15 minutes just for you to pick up that phone call 920-9000 thank you. 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