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The Jan. 27 production is a multimedia collaboration between the Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra, Great Lakes Center for the Arts’ NextGen program and Little Traverse Civic Theatre.

The iconic vocal quintet performs with the Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra on Tuesday, July 19 at 7 p.m.

The Michigan State University violin professor joins the GLCO for "The Lark Ascending" by Ralph Vaughan Williams.

Join the Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra on October 30th for the "Postcard from Vienna" concert at the Great Lakes Center for the Arts in Petoskey.

Listen • 4:59 When the Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra formed 20 years ago, they didn’t require their musicians to audition.  “We just said if you’re interested and willing to play, come and join us,” says Robert Pattengale, a retired professor of music and one of the founders of the Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra.  He says the group initially came together to perform benefit concerts for the Little Traverse Bay’s emerging youth orchestra, which is now at Cro...

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Listen to this story He says the group initially came together to perform benefit concerts for the Little Traverse Bay’s emerging youth orchestra, which is now at Crooked Tree Arts Center. The musicians enjoyed playing in these benefit concerts so much that they decided to create a more permanent orchestra in the region.  In October 2001, the newly minted Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra gave its first official concert. Pattengale says some of the early concerts were sparsely attended. "Someti...