Muskegon, Michigan, Oct. 2 –Clarinetist Jonathan Holden joins an ensemble of professional musicians to play an evening of classical music at The Block, West Michigan Symphony’s alternative performance venue, Saturday, Nov. 7. British born clarinetist Jonathan Holden is Principal Clarinetist of the West Michigan Symphony and assistant professor of Clarinet at Florida State University. Holden […]
Muskegon, Michigan, Sept. 17, 2015 – The Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs has approved grants for 2016 totaling nearly $9.65 million in awards across the state. The grants were awarded to organizations in 55 Michigan counties of which Muskegon County garnered seven. MCACA stated it received 585 applications for funding and used the […]
Muskegon, Michigan, Sept. 15, 2015, — Friday, Oct. 16, West Michigan Symphony will present IGUDESMAN & JOO: AND NOW MOZART, at Muskegon’s Frauenthal Theater. If Trey Parker and Matt Stone played the violin and piano, if Penn and Teller performed music instead of magic, and if Seth MacFarlane had a twin, they would be the […]
Muskegon, Michigan, Sept 8, 2015 – The Pigeon Creek Shakespeare Company is coming to The Block Friday and Saturday Oct. 9-10 at 7:30 p.m. to perform “The School for Scandal,” a comedy of manners by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. The play is a precursor to the West Michigan Symphony orchestra’s performance of the Overture to “The […]
Muskegon, Michigan, Sept. 1, 2015, — Friday, Oct. 2, West Michigan Symphony begins its 2015-16 concert season with a concert titled East Meets West, at Muskegon’s Frauenthal Theater. West Michigan Symphony and Music Director Scott Speck unite music from three continents beginning with American composer Austin Wintory, then welcoming Chinese music to Muskegon with pipa […]
Muskegon, Michigan, Aug. 31, 2015 – Jazz vocalist Edye Evans Hyde will be appearing at The Block, West Michigan Symphony’s alternative performance venue, Friday, Sept. 25. This fall West Michigan favorite Edye Evans Hyde comes to The Block in downtown Muskegon. Hyde will deliver an evening of jazz favorites alongside her band which includes Terry […]
MUSEKGON, MI – Aug. 5, 2015 – West Michigan Symphony (WMS) will host a fundraiser event for its music education programs called Strings, Sings, Moo, Zoo at Hampton Green Farm in Fruitport, 5440 E. Farr Road, Friday, Sept. 17, 5:30 to 9 p.m. The event will begin with self-guided tours of the Hampton Green stables […]
MUSKEGON, MI – Aug. 12, 2015, West Michigan Symphony’s Director of Education and Community Outreach, Karen Vander Zanden, has spent close to a decade creating music education programs for youth. This fall she will bring the newest program she created, called Click Clack Moosic, to Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital in Grand Rapids, MI. Vander Zanden […]
Muskegon, Michigan, June 1, 2015, — West Michigan Symphony’s 2015-16 concert series highlights an exciting lineup of classic and contemporary music and guest artists, plus a special engagement of the musical-comedy duo, Igudesman and Joo. The West Michigan Symphony and Music Director Scott Speck will open the season with Chinese Pipa virtuoso Wu Man, playing […]
Muskegon, Michigan, May 20, 2015 – Friday, June 5, Music Director Scott Speck and the West Michigan Symphony close their 75th anniversary season with a piece that, as was the case in their opening concert, pairs expansive orchestral arrangements with choral voices in Gustav Holst’s “The Planets.” Music Director Scott Speck had this to say […]
