Photo: Rich Gilligan
Originally heard on OPB's Morning Edition on March 6, 2020.
Teddy Abrams is the youngest conductor of a major orchestra in the United States and one of classical music’s biggest proponents of collaboration and breaking artistic barriers.
So when he became music director of the Britt Music and Arts Festival in Jacksonville, Oregon, in 2014, he unsurprisingly asked two non-classical musicians to join him in writing a suite of music based on the work of an Oregon poet.
