Gretchen Carr
Operations and Engagement Coordinator
Coordinator of Operations and Engagement, Gretchen Carr joined the IPR staff in 2019. With her background in the performing arts, education, history, arts administration, and communications, she works to keep the daily operations at IPR running smoothly. A native of Traverse City, Michigan, she received a Bachelor of Arts in Music from Western Michigan University and a Graduate Certificate in Historic Preservation from Eastern Michigan University. Gretchen is also a multimedia artist focusing on film, writing, soundscape, and radio story.
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Today's playlist featured Folk Suite No. 2 by William Grant Still. His career as a composer was comprised of many "firsts." His Symphony No.1 was… -
Featured on today's program were exceprts from The Long View: A Portrait of Ruth Bader Ginsburg in Nine Songs by Patrice Michaels. Michaels, a composer… -
Featured on today's playlist were compositions that are traditionally performed at the annual BBC Proms, formally known as the Henry Woods Promenade… -
Featured on today's playlist was Charles Ives' Central Park in the Dark. This transcendental work evokes the sounds one would hear sitting in New York's… -
Featured on today's program was Samuel Barber's Summer Music . The work was commissioned from the Chamber Music Society of Detroit and premiered in 1956… -
Featured on today's playlist was a recording of Johann Sebastian Bach's Tocatta and Fugue in D minor by E. Power Biggs. Known for his dignified manner and… -
Today's playlist featured a recording of Licia Albanese as Mimi in Puccini's La Boheme. Albanese's rich soprano range thrilled audiences during her long… -
Featured on today's program were the Hungarian Dances by Johannes Brahams. A set of 21 pieces composed originally for piano, four hands, they are based on… -
Happy Swiss National Day! Featured on today's program was the William Tell Overture from Gioacchino Rossini's opera, William Tell. This popular work… -
Today's playlist consisted of many works composed for film and television. Composers included Ramin Djawadi, Elmer Bernstein, Maurice Jarre, John Wiliams,…
