Grand Rapids Symphony
Community updates: Saturday, Aug. 1
by (The Rapidian)
Submitted 08-01-2020 under NEWS
Grand Rapids Police Department addresses city’s recent gun violence Grand Rapids Police Department's (GRPD) Chief Eric Payne addressed Grand Rapids' rise in gun violence and homicides this year on Friday, affirming that the department...
COVID-19 in Grand Rapids: Tuesday, March 31 updates
by (The Rapidian)
Submitted 03-31-2020 under NEWS
Responses to the COVID-19 crisis continue on at the local, state, and federal levels. Shared in this Tuesday, March 31, update are responses relevant to Grand Rapids area residents from the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the IRS, Gov. Whitmer...
Cinematic Shostakovich and 'optimistic, absolutely stunning' music by Mozart come to Grand Rapids Symphony stage
by (GRSymphony)
Submitted 01-09-2020 under NONPROFITS
Dmitri Shostakovich was one of the most subversive composers in the history of music who lived to tell the tale. Under orders from the communist regime to produce a piece commemorating a peasant uprising against Tsar Nicholas II of Russia,...
The Nutcracker remains an entrancing tradition
by (John Kissane)
Submitted 12-16-2019 under OPINION
Over time, traditions can start to feel eternal. It happened with The Nutcracker: today the play is no less associated with Christmas than the Bethlehem Star, but that wasn't always the case. The ballet, which based its story on "The...
Grand Rapids Symphony celebrates 25 years of Picnic Pops with fireworks and patriotic music, July 11-12
by (GRSymphony)
Submitted 07-10-2019 under NONPROFITS
Twenty-five years ago, on the hills of Cannonsburg Ski Area, several thousand gathered for an evening’s entertainment. The ski lift was still. Not a flake of snow covered the ground. In fact, it was a scorching hot summer’s day for the...
Grand Rapids Symphony's Marcelo Lehninger's mother, pianist Sonia Goulart, joins orchestra for Chopin and Brahms
by (GRSymphony)
Submitted 05-13-2019 under NONPROFITS
Some pregnant women will make a special effort to listen to classical music in hopes of inducing the “Mozart Effect” on their child-to-be. All Sonia Goulart had to do was go about her normal daily life. The Brazilian pianist taught music...
Grand Rapids Pops plays the great musical themes from 'Star Wars,' 'Star Trek,' 'Lord of the Rings' and more, May 10-12
by (GRSymphony)
Submitted 05-08-2019 under NONPROFITS
At Disneyland, the grand opening of Galaxy Edge’s theme park, complete with new music, Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge Symphonic Suite, by John Williams, is just weeks away. In Grand Rapids, you can get your Star Wars fix in DeVos Hall this...
Grand Rapids Symphony celebrates women with music composed by women, featuring a female trombone soloist
by (GRSymphony)
Submitted 04-30-2019 under NONPROFITS
Casual fans of classical music sometimes wonder about such terms as “concerto.” Generally speaking, it’s a piece for a featured soloist plus orchestra. If you want to drill down a little further, it’s a showpiece for a...
Grammy Award winner from West Michigan joins Grand Rapids Symphony and Choruses for massive Mahler Symphony No. 3
by (GRSymphony)
Submitted 04-10-2019 under NONPROFITS
Michelle DeYoung, a three-time Grammy Award-winning singer, was born in Grand Rapids into a musical family while her father was studying at Calvin Theological Seminary to become a minister. Growing up in Colorado, DeYoung followed in the footsteps...
Grand Rapids Bach Festival is grand and glorious under inspired leadership of new artistic director Julian Wachner
by (ArtswriterGR)
Submitted 03-28-2019 under NONPROFITS
Linn Maxwell Keller founded the Grand Rapids Bach Festival to give her community the entertainment and enlightenment of experiencing music by the greatest composer in the history of Western Classical Music. Before her death in 2016, the mezzo...