Imagine a world in which 7,000 refugees from all over the globe appear on North American shores in a single day and instead of being turned away or treated like criminals for simply being displaced, they are welcomed with open arms, given food, clothing, and shelter.
Arts exhibitions and performances have returned in full swing to West Michigan. This season, there’s absolutely no shortage of concerts, symphonies, plays, musicals, ballet, visual arts and beyond. We have big Broadway shows, intimate and progressive plays, live performances with symphonies, dancers taking to the stage, and powerful art exhibitions. Here’s our guide to arts events for the month.
In 1933, the Civic Auditorium, a large, neoclassical building standing on the eastern shore of the Grand River in Grand Rapids, opened. Three years later, the immortal Louis Armstrong performed there, backed by a crack band which included celebrated pianist Luis Russell.
Arts exhibitions and performances have returned in full swing to West Michigan. This season, there’s absolutely no shortage of concerts, symphonies, plays, musicals, ballet, visual arts and beyond.
Ladislav Hanka was born in America, the son of Czechoslovakian immigrants. If his parents seem to have emerged from another time, it’s because they did; while automobiles were not unknown in Czechoslovakia, only the rich owned them. Most people rode horse-drawn buggies.
Like just about everything in life, the arts community here in West Michigan has seen some huge shifts over the past five years.
Jake Orr’s specialty is capturing the energy and presence of music and artists both on and off the stage.
Orthodoxy tells us that hair metal was an aberration: a dragon, crude and swollen, who reigned over our radio waves until the knights of grunge slayed him.
Scott Carey and Carol Wagen are the husband and wife co-owners of Metal Art Studio, a well-known entity at the corner of Cherry and Diamond in East Hills (Center of the Universe).
On October 24, 1971, The New York Times published a review of Jesus Christ Superstar by Walter Kerr. Kerr had enjoyed the concept album, released a year before, but found the stage production bizarre and unappealing.
