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August 2024 | Great Lakes Concerts

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Saturdays, August 3 - August 31 at 12PM on 90.5 FM & STREAMING | Enjoy music from around the mitten with Jody Knol each Saturday for Great Lakes Concerts!

August 3
Jackson Symphony performs Michael Daugherty’s LudWig from Fifteen: Symphonic Fantasy on the Art of Andy Warhol and Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition; Nermis Mieses, oboe and pianist Xavier Suarezplay Temporal Variations by Benjamin Britten.

August 10
Boyd-Goluses Duo plays Entracte by Ibert and Two Tangos by Piazolla, from an Absolute Music Chamber concert; Lansing Symphony performs Dvorak: Symphony No. 9, From the New World.

August 17
Corey Cerovsek, violin and Genadi Zagor, piano, play Brahms: Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano from an Absolute Music Chamber concert; Violinist Stefan Jackiw and the Ann Arbor Symphony play Korngold’s Violin Concerto in D and Largo from the Sonata No. 3 in C by Bach.

August 24
Lansing Symphony performs Valerie Coleman’s Umoja, Anthem for Unity and Ravel: Piano Concerto in Gwith guest pianist Claire Huangci; Corey Cerovsek, violin and pianist Genadi Zagor play Sarasate: Gypsy Airs from an Absolute Music Chamber Concert.

August 31
From an Absolute Music Series concert Nermis Mieses, oboe, Richard Sherman, flute and pianist Xavier Suarez playTrio by Madeleine Dring; Jackson Symphony performs Felix Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 3, “Scottish”.

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