Artforms - MarchInterlochen Public Radio(2009-03-07)Host Brad Aspey will present an entire hour devoted to Kalevi Aho's Concerto for Contrabassoon and Orchestra. This work received its US premiere right here at the Interlochen Center for the Arts. Present for the performance was composer Kalevi Aho, principal contrabassoonist of the National Symphony Orchestra Lewis Lipnick and Maestro Leonard Slatkin. We'll hear the work and excerpts from a fascinating public discussion with Aho, Slatkin and Lipnick, moderated by Jeff Kimpton.
Artforms - FebruaryInterlochen Public Radio(2009-02-10)Host Brad Aspey talks with singer and songwriter Seth Bernard who has a new CD, Interlochen student Sam Johnson who is a winner of the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra's composition competition for young people and with 93 year-old Grafton McCready Thomas who has just published his memoir. And contributing producer Tom Kramer talks with Sam Porterhouse who is bringing top quality musical acts into Northern Michigan.