Connect with this great movie music-filled playlist to get in the spirit for Oscar season.

This week on CMI Streaming’s New Classical Channel, we feature a couple of pieces by English composer and conductor Joseph Horovitz. Born in Austria in 1926, Horovitz family fled to England in 1938 to escape the Nazis.

Clarinetist Elizabeth Crawford, a faculty member at Ball State University’s School of Music and CMI Streaming’s featured artist for this week, is originally from Louisville, Kentucky, and later studied at Furman University, the University of Michigan, and Florida State University. A longtime member of the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, Crawford spent the early 2000’s living in London, where she had the opportunity to perform with nearly all the major orchestras in England.

In this week’s playlist, we’ll listen to music that will be performed at this year’s ChamberFest Brown County. We’ll hear from their Artistic Director, Andreas Ioannides, and Indianapolis Symphony’s Kevin Lin and Austin Huntington. We’ll hear host, Salvador, talk with these three artists about all to expect at this year’s ChamberFest, their backgrounds, musical likes, and much more.

This week’s featured artist on CMI Streaming’s Local Classical channel is iconic Indiana composer Cole Porter. Born to a wealthy family in Peru, Indiana, Porter’s grandfather sent him to Worcester Academy in Massachusetts, hoping he would become a lawyer.