Song of the stars
On a cold, clear Monday evening in early November, two Subarus rendezvoused in an otherwise empty parking lot at Sleepy Hollow State Park, about 20 minutes’ drive north of Lansing. The sun …
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Clarity out of chaos
A muscular whack of a bass drum jolted the Wharton Center audience to attention Friday night (Nov. 7) in the first second of Michigan State University composition Professor Zhou Tian’s “A …
Full circle
There’s a sweet moment in a jazz tune when the soloists have all had their say, the energy is reaching a peak, and the band roars back to reprise the “head.” There’s no …
Masterpiece in the parole office
The mid-October sun stole past the blinds of the Ingham County Parole Office on Lansing’s south side. Martín Vargas sat silently in a hard chair, his back to the window, making use of …
So much civilization
The passage of time was the key theme in the Lansing Symphony Orchestra’s cosmically scaled season opener Saturday evening (Oct. 4). Despite the impressive choral and orchestral forces on …
‘Da Vinci Notebooks’ probes the creative mind in cosmic LSO opener
Will the Lansing Symphony Orchestra’s 2025-‘26 season open Saturday evening with a bang or a whisper? Both. To kick off the final season of music director Timothy …
Same latitude, same attitude
Erena Terakubo knew about Michigan State University before she knew about Michigan State University. Born and raised in Sapporo, Japan, the latest addition to the MSU jazz studies faculty moved …
Phillip Bahar brings Chicago energy to Broad Art Museum
Phillip Bahar has one hell of a Rolodex — if people still use such things. (He calls it “a long list of digital contacts.”) That’s not the only asset that led to …
Now it hurts, now it heals
How many kinds of blues are there? It will take an extended weekend in Old Town, and three stages packed with music, to properly address this crying question. From the gospel-soaked lyricism of …
Over the moon
Seconds after Lansing Mayor Andy Schor cut the ribbon Tuesday morning (Sept. 16) on the Historical Society of Greater Lansing’s first-ever permanent home, the historic Rogers-Carrier House on …