February 17, 2023

At our Lansing Symphony board meeting yesterday, my colleague Courtney Millbrook, LSO's Executive Director, shared some findings from a recent study showing that, post lockdown, younger people are tending to return to live music events before other kinds of events and that those attending more “challenging” concerts tend to be “stickier” in terms of becoming returning patrons.
 
Well, that axiom held true at our second LSO@The Robin last night. This is now the 4th program that we have done in this series, a series featuring contemporary chamber music in a small theater in Lansing’s REO Town. These audiences are definitely trending young, and the concert was again sold out.
 
Our partners in this program were members of Lansing’s All Of The Above Hip Hop Academy, and they knocked it out of the park. We have partnered with them before in some classes, but this was our first performance together. I hope we can do more.
 
We called this program “Crossovers” as it featured classical music influenced from non-classical styles like indie rock, bluegrass, hip hop and a work with roots in Yiddish culture. It was quite a  broad spectrum of styles, and it was very rewarding to hear the audience’s enthusiastic response to all the works.
 
We have two more LSO @The Robin concerts this season, and I’ll be interested to see the makeup of the audience. I think we can expect another capacity crowd, given the pattern we are seeing.
 
Next up for me is a Masterworks program with the LSO, music of Shostakovich, Beethoven and Mozart.
 
NEXT UP
 
Lansing Symphony Orchestra
Wharton Center for the Performing Arts
East Lansing, Michigan
 
March 4, 2023 7:30 p.m.
 
Ara Gregorian, viola and Hye-Jin Kim violin
 
BEETHOVEN    Coriolan Overture
MOZART          Sinfonia Concertante
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 9
 
 
 
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