Grand Rapids Symphony
Hours after winning Grand Rapids Bach Festival's $10,000 Keller Award, singer makes unexpected debut at 12th biennial festival
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Submitted 03-22-2019 under NONPROFITS
Singers competing for the Linn Maxwell Keller Distinguished Bach Musician Award were promised not only a $10,000 prize to encourage and promote their careers, but also the possibility of a future engagement with the Grand Rapids...
Grand Rapids Bach Festival gets underway with music, yoga, free events, and a $10,000 prize
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Submitted 03-17-2019 under NONPROFITS
New York City’s Trinity Church Wall Street is famous. The church founded in 1697 was the setting for the climax of the 2004 film National Treasure. Its St. Paul’s Chapel, located across the street from the World Trade Center in lower...
Grand Rapids Symphony features International Tchaikovsky Competition medalist playing Rachmaninoff's popular Piano Concerto No. 2
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Submitted 03-13-2019 under NONPROFITS
Seven years ago, pianist George Li was named a Gilmore Young Artist of the Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival and made his debut with the Grand Rapids Symphony, performing Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A for the symphony’s...
'Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl' comes to the GR Pops stage, March 8-10
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Submitted 03-06-2019 under NONPROFITS
Famed film composer Hans Zimmer thought The Lion King and Gladiator were great projects, which is why he signed up to compose the music for those films. When director Gore Verbinski invited the film composer of Inception and The Dark Knight trilogy...
Grand Rapids Symphony holds 5th Grade Concert for an audience of just one lucky child
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Submitted 02-13-2019 under NONPROFITS
Grand Rapids Symphony Fifth Grade Concerts typically bring 15,000 to 16,000 elementary school students downtown to DeVos Performance Hall each February for a live performance with a real symphony orchestra playing music by Bach, Beethoven and...
Grand Rapids Symphony welcomes Itzhak Perlman, Olga Kern, 'Ghostbusters,' 'Up,' 'Home Alone' for 90th anniversary season
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Submitted 02-01-2019 under NONPROFITS
Grand Rapids Symphony’s 90th anniversary season, by the numbers, could hardly be more impressive. The 2019-20 season opening in September welcomes Itzhak Perlman, one of the greatest violinists of our time, performing with the Grand Rapids...
GR Pops welcomes trumpeter Byron Stripling for a blast of ragtime, blues and 'all that jazz' Friday through Sunday
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Submitted 01-24-2019 under NONPROFITS
The great jazz pioneer Louis Armstrong spent his life traveling the world as an ambassador for the musical form that’s America’s greatest contribution to the arts. Trumpeter and singer Byron Stripling has lived a similar life, performing...
Grand Rapids Symphony welcomes Spanish guitarist, Grand Rapids Ballet for a weekend of Spanish and Latin American Music
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Submitted 01-15-2019 under NONPROFITS
Astor Piazzolla, who is to the tango what John Philip Sousa is to the march, grew up in Argentina, playing tangos on the bandoneon, an instrument related to the accordion. Determined to become a serious composer of classical music, Piazzolla spent a...
Grand Rapids Symphony celebrates 89th birthday with music of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven
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Submitted 01-08-2019 under NONPROFITS
In the 1920s, there really were only two ways to hear music. Commercial radio, which made its debut in the early 1920s, was still in its infancy. You could listen to 3 ½ minutes’ worth of music on a 10-inch 78 rpm record before you had...
Cirque stars celebrate the season in Grand Rapids Symphony's Cirque de Noel
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Submitted 12-18-2018 under NONPROFITS
Twinkling lights on evergreen trees with presents all around. Sleigh rides on new-fallen snow, partridges in pear trees, surrounded by ladies dancing while pipers pipe and drummers drum. When you think about it, Christmas not only is the most...