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Every day there are exciting things going on in Rochester's cultural arts community. Classical 91.5 hosts collaborate with and create highlights of various arts organizations, musicians and artists in and around our community.

Composer Kevin Puts inspired by O'Keefe's light

Composer Kevin Puts
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Composer Kevin Puts

When the University of Rochester’s Eastman School decided to send a student orchestra to New York this fall, Dean Jamal Rossi commissioned Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Kevin Puts to write something new for soprano Renée Fleming.  It didn’t take composer Kevin Puts long to find a source of inspiration for their collaboration.  Click on the link for the full interview.

Brenda Tremblay has served as weekday morning host on WXXI Classical since 2009.