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Episode 57 – Anthony McGill / American Stories
On this episode of Classical Chicago, Cedille President Jim Ginsburg talks with Avery Fisher prize winner Anthony McGill about his collaborative album with the multiple Grammy Award-winning Pacifica Quartet, American Stories. McGill describes it as a project driven by the desire to “expand the capacity for art and music to change the world.”
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