• Grand Rapids Symphony's annual 'Symphony with Soul' featuring Black Violin is sold out Tuesday, Feb 12, 2019
  Violinist Kevin Sylvester and violist Wilner Baptiste went to college to study classical music. Today both are professional musicians, but neither wear white tie and tails on stage. As Black Viol...
• Recap: 'Tchaikovsky Festival's' Russian music warms American hearts in Grand Rapids Symphony's performance Saturday, Feb 9, 2019
  By Jeffrey Kaczmarczyk - ‘Tis the season for Russian music. For several weeks now, the snow and ice that has fallen had made West Michigan feel less like the Great Lake State and more lik...
• Tchaikovsky Competition winner joins Grand Rapids Symphony for all-Tchaikovsky concert Wednesday, Feb 6, 2019
  In all of classical music, few composers are more beloved than Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Though the bombastic 1812 Overture and the enchanting ballet The Nutcracker are some of Tchaikovsky&r...
• Grand Rapids Symphony unveils 2019-20 season with Itzhak Perlman, 'Ghostbusters' and 'Up,' Beethoven piano concertos and more Friday, Feb 1, 2019
  Nearly 90 years ago, on the final Saturday in 1929, a group of 51 men and women took the stage at Central High School and gave Grand Rapids the best Christmas present of all, the gift of music. Ka...

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