A Classical Current

Part composer, part producer, Tom Vignieri lives and breathes classical music. He's the music producer of the national radio program From the Top and he's an accomplished composer whose commissions from the Handel and Haydn Society Chorus are being performed increasingly by other organizations. The Concord Chorale will be featuring Tom's work in December; we'll talk with him about the state of classical composing from a producer's perspective.

We'll also hear from violinist Hillary Hahn. The once-child prodigy amazed listeners when she released an album of solo material by Bach at the age of seventeen. Some of the world's best violinists wait years before they dare to record the music Bach wrote for the solo violin. But Hillary says she had an affinity for the composer's music from the time she was a little kid.

We hear from Hillary as part of the series Musicians in their Own Words, produced by David Schulman, supported by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and available through the website PRX.