Live At WCNY - On the Radio

August 11, 2025: Graeme Steele Johnson at CSMF

by Diane Jones

August 11, 2025

Graeme Steele Johnson
(photo credit: Dylan Hancook)

The Cooperstown Summer Music Festival welcomes clarinetist (and “musical detective”) Graeme Steele Johnson this week, along with the Caroga Arts Ensemble, the KASA Quartet, Bixby Kennedy and founder/artistic director Linda Chesis.  We spoke to Graeme about the rare opportunity the audience has to hear a work that was nearly lost to time.  He told us how he found this 125-year old unpublished manuscript, the joy of arranging, and even how Mozart and Seinfeld have something in common!

The Cooperstown Summer Music Festival website is available here.