Hosts: Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Diana Rosenblum, and Nick Morandi

This week, special guest Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Aaron Jay Kernis! We talk to him about the state of music, his decade-long stewardship of the Minnesota Orchestra's Composers Institute, his new position as director of the Nashville Symphony's Composer Lab and Workshop, and writing for orchestra.

For more from Prof. Kernis, please visit his publisher's page: http://www.musicsalesclassical.com/composer/short-bio/824

Colored Field - II: Pandora Dance by Aaron Jay Kernis
Performers: Truls Mork, cello; Minnesota Orchestra, cond. Eji Oue

Musica celestis (for string orchestra) by Aaron Jay Kernis
Performers: Minnesota Orchestra, cond. Eji Oue

Newly Drawn Sky by Aaron Jay Kernis
Performers: Grant Park Orchestra, cond. Carlos Kalmar