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Festival Notes
Friday July 30, 2010
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Cellist Sol Gabetta performs tonight at 6 with Robert Spano and the Aspen Chamber Symphony. And tomorrow evening at 7, the Aspen Opera Theatre Center presents The Marriage of Figaro, the second installment in the Beaumarchais Trilogy, at the Wheeler Opera House.

On Sunday, conductor Leonard Slatkin leads the Aspen Festival Orchestra with pianist Joyce Yang at the Benedict Music Tent. That 4 p.m. concert features Richard Strauss' Symphonia Domestica and Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor.

View the Festival Notes podcast

McCloskey Speaker Series
Aspen Public Radio is proud to partner once again with The Aspen Institute to broadcast the McCloskey Speaker Series live from Paepcke Auditorium. Tune in throughout the summer for fascinating talks from a range of leaders who have had a far-reaching impact on society. The next broadcast is Friday, July 30 at 6:30 p.m. with Jonathan Alter, senior editor at Newsweek. Click here for speaker information and a complete broadcast schedule.

APR also delivered live coverage of the Aspen Ideas Festival, July 5 - 11. To listen to these broadcast archives online, please click here.

Local News
Morning Newscast
Friday July 30, 2010
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The City of Aspen is moving forward with plans to use geothermal energy to heat and cool downtown buildings. Aspen Public Radio's Marci Krivonen reports.

The Pitkin County Elections office had to make an unexpected change last week to make sure it did not count votes for a candidate who dropped out of the race. Aspen Public Radio's Natalie Jones reports.

For the 21st year, a group of Tibetan Buddhist Monks from the Garden Shart-Say Monastery in India are in Aspen for a week. Aspen Public Radio's Mitzi Rapkin reports on their Sand Mandala meant to heal the people and animals affected by the Gulf oil spill.

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