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Music first, candy after. On Halloween afternoon, the Itasca Symphony Orchestra plays music that has given audiences goosebumps for well over a century, plus the movie and TV themes kids already know by heart. Kids and grown-ups are welcome in costume. The concert is about an hour of music, played by your neighbors in the…

The Snowman is back at the Reif with the Itasca Symphony Orchestra for a second December, on its way to becoming a Grand Rapids tradition. The 1982 animated film, based on Raymond Briggs' picture book, has no dialogue. A boy builds a snowman, the snowman comes to life, and together they fly off into the…

Grand Rapids' own Sam Miltich joined the Hot Club of San Francisco as a teenager and has since toured internationally and played Lincoln Center. This February he brings his band home to share the Reif stage with the Itasca Symphony Orchestra: Sam on guitar, his father Matthew Miltich on bass, plus other instruments. The music…

The season opened on Halloween with Saint-Saëns' dancing skeletons. It closes with his Cello Concerto No. 1, played by an international soloist from IOSP's own strings program. Magdalena Sas works with our cello students and brings arts to our community, and on May 22 she takes the soloist's chair in front of the full orchestra.