• Trumpeter Byron Stripling returns to GR Pops stage with 'Ragtime, Blues and All that Jazz' Tuesday, Jan 22, 2019
  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...
• Recap: Grand Rapids Symphony heats up winter with sizzling Spanish and Latinx music Saturday, Jan 19, 2019
  By Jeffrey Kaczmarczyk - Winter definitely has arrived in Michigan, but if you were in the audience with the Grand Rapids Symphony on Friday, it was easy to forget the chilly winds and flurries ...
• Enjoy Spanish and Latinx music with the Grand Rapids Symphony plus Spanish guitarist Pablo Sáinz Villegas, Grand Rapids Ballet Tuesday, Jan 15, 2019
  If there’s one musical instrument that defines Spanish music, it’s the guitar. If there’s one piece for guitar and orchestra that towers above all others for the genre, it’...
• Grand Rapids Symphony marks its 89th birthday on Jan. 11 with music of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven Wednesday, Jan 9, 2019
  A century ago, the growing city of Grand Rapids needed a symphony orchestra of its own. Several failed attempts were made to organize and sustain an orchestra. But in the final days of 1929, a newly ...

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