• Recap: Breathtaking Beethoven opens Grand Rapids Symphony's 2019-20 season Saturday, Sep 14, 2019
  By Jeffrey Kaczmarczyk - For 90 years, the Grand Rapids Symphony has welcomed some of the greatest musicians of the past century to town. Cellists Yo-Yo Ma and Janos Starker, pianists Van...
• Recap: Sweet, soulful sounds of summer rock Cannonsburg with music of Motown and the Grand Rapids Symphony Friday, Jul 26, 2019
  By Jeffrey Kaczmarczyk- The music of Motown is something special. It’s sweet, it’s soulful, and it’s the sound of summer.  It’s music for dancing, and whenever yo...
• Recap: Grand Rapids Symphony celebrates 25 years of Picnic Pops with star-spangled salute to America Friday, Jul 12, 2019
  By Jeffrey Kaczmarczyk Twenty-five years ago, the Grand Rapids Symphony proved that if you build it, people will come. The D&W Fresh Market Picnic Pops debuted a quarter century a...
• 25 years later, how the Grand Rapids Symphony's D&W Fresh Market Picnic Pops got its start. Thursday, Jul 11, 2019
  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...

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