West Michigan's Arts & Entertainment Guide
Passing the Baton: Raymond Harvey to retire from the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra
Written by Josh Veal Super | Monday, 03 October 2016 09:30 |Raymond Harvey has led the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra for 18 years, but at the end of the 2016-2017 season, someone else will take the stand.
Local composer discusses the inspiration for his “Madame Bovary” concerto
Written by Samara Napolitan | Monday, 03 October 2016 09:30 |It depends on who you ask, but Gustave Flaubert’s literary masterpiece “Madame Bovary” is about either a hapless dreamer or an adulterous drama queen.
Music, Naturally: GVSU’s New Music Ensemble Celebrates the Wilderness with National Parks Tour
Written by Samara Napolitan | Monday, 03 October 2016 09:30 |When patrons visit National Parks, they expect to hear the wild sounds of nature — the wolves howling, geysers churning and insects humming, but perhaps not plucked spines of an amplified cactus.
Broadway Grand Rapids gets a bump from ‘Phantom’ tour, DeVos upgrades
Written by Kayla Tucker | Wednesday, 14 September 2016 13:55 |While recent improvements did little to directly change the attendee experience for shows at DeVos Performance Hall, they helped usher in a record-setting season for Broadway Grand Rapids.
That’s because the $350,000 in behind-the-scenes renovations approved two years ago made it possible for Broadway Grand Rapids to lure in bigger shows. The first of those larger performances, “Phantom of the Opera,” played its sold-out, 16-show run over two weeks in May.
Gilmore Collection’s new downtown Grand Rapids venue set to open
Written by Nick Manes | Tuesday, 13 September 2016 12:48 |The Gilmore Collection, owners and operators of restaurant facilities like The B.O.B., today unveiled details for the under-construction music venue in downtown Grand Rapids.
Beginner’s guide to West Michigan museums
Written by Troy Reimink | Thursday, 08 September 2016 14:05 |Here’s a handy beginners’ field guide to museums, some art-centric and some not, all over West Michigan.
MARCELO LEHNINGER: Getting personal with the new maestro of Grand Rapids Symphony
Written by Josh Veal | Thursday, 08 September 2016 13:45 |For the first time in 17 years, the Grand Rapids Symphony has a new music director. Marcelo Lehninger — replacing David Lockington, who held the position for 16 years — was the symphony's guest conductor in both February 2015 and April 2016.
Revue talked with Lehninger about his interests, his musical philosophy, and his plans for the symphony.
JEFF KRAUS: The ambiguous world of enigmatic domains
Written by Josh Veal and Nicole Rico | Thursday, 08 September 2016 11:31 |Simple shapes, large swaths of color and quasi-patterns dominate the abstract landscapes of Jeff Kraus’ canvases.
But the 31-year-old Grand Rapidian doesn’t want to tell you how to interpret his work. Rather, Kraus enjoys “the fact that each person can look at it and associate different things from their life onto it.” The art, which has been shown in galleries from Los Angeles to New York, is meant to be experienced rather than deciphered.
UICA looks back on 40 years of challenging Grand Rapids
Written by Troy Reimink | Thursday, 08 September 2016 11:24 |“The UICA has been a major reason why I enjoy living in GR, as it has been the most professional, inspiring, forward-thinking art institution outside of Detroit, as far as I’m concerned.”
PAUL AMENTA: Going behind the scenes with the curator of SiTE:LAB
Written by Elma Talundzic | Tuesday, 06 September 2016 22:00 |Way back in 2007, a group of sculpture students at Kendall College of Art & Design embarked on a project that’s since grown faster and larger than they ever could have expected.
That project, first known as ACTIVESITE and later called SiTE:LAB, has been making a name for itself in the local arts scene (and beyond). Revue talked with Amenta about plans for the future, why SiTE:LAB is important, and what the general public should get out of it all.
