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Interlochen Public Radio's comprehensive guide to live, in-person concerts in northern Michigan summer 2024
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"Condense Eternity" by composer Alex Berko is inspired by iconic Michigan and New York bridges. The piece gets its Interlochen premiere this weekend with the World Youth Symphony Orchestra.
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Rebecca Tong conducts Interlochen's World Youth Symphony Orchestra this weekend in a program highlighting the "Enigma Variations" and new music by Alex Berko.
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Revisit this May 1977 performance from Interlochen Arts Academy, featuring renowned choral conductor, composer and arranger Gregg Smith.
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Chu takes his inspiration from his dad, a Chinese immigrant who worked both the front room and the kitchen of their family-run restaurant: "The guy that in the back of the kitchen, that was my hero."
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Coggin Heeringa explores the intricate relationship between sunlight and trees — from shady forests to sun-drenched yards — revealing their remarkable ability to adjust like nature's own blinds.
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Fred Child will complete his tenure as the host of Performance Today in October 2025.
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This week, we’re celebrating each of the official Grammy nominees in the category of Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media.
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Two high school student wind quintets from Interlochen Arts Camp visited Studio A to perform music by 20th-century composers Carl Nielsen and Maurice Ravel.
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This episode features recordings by legends of classical and jazz.
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Hear Richard Strauss's "Elektra" on Classical IPR on Saturday at 1 p.m.
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Jader Bignamini conducts WYSO and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in a weekend of spectacular music by Beethoven, Dvorak, Strauss and Verdi.
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This Saturday evening, Jader Bignamini conducts the Detroit Symphony Orchestra at Interlochen in the "Eroica" Symphony by Beethoven and "Don Juan" by Strauss.
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The songleader, civil rights activist and scholar died Tuesday at the age of 81.
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Oaks gather sunlight to nourish themselves for the coming year. Similarly, Interlochen Public Radio collects and retains resources each summer to sustain its services to the Michigan community.
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Sam Crespino, Josiah Dean-Ware, Connor Dively, Emi Greenfield, Aiden Ledbetter and Armin Schulz-Baldes visited IPR's Studio A to perform the jazz standard "Misty."
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Hear Richard Wagner's "Das Rheingold" on Classical IPR on Saturday at 1 p.m.
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Matthew Straw leads Interlochen's World Youth Symphony Orchestra in their third concert of the 2024 season. Classical IPR presents the live broadcast this Sunday, July 14 at 7:30 PM ET.
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Hear music written by composers when they were in their teens, performed by decades of student ensembles from Interlochen Arts Camp and Academy.
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Composer Bobby Ge on "Sighting the Swallow," a piece that gets its Interlochen premiere with the World Youth Symphony Orchestra this weekend.
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Georgia O'Keeffe supposedly hated flowers, but she painted many of them. But flowers aren't supposed to be beautiful for humans - they're the reproductive parts of plants.
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We talk with composer Garry Schyman and share soundtracks that span 30 years of his work in video games.
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Hear the Ying Quartet perform music of Antonin Dvorak in a concert from Interlochen Center for the Arts on Performance Today.