BAY HARBOR — At 10 a.m. on Monday, Oct. 30, in partnership with the Traverse Symphony Orchestra and Interlochen Public Radio, the Great Lakes Center for the Arts will host its first Next Gen event of the 2023-24 school year entitled “Mussorgsky in Miniature: Pictures at an Exhibition – A Masterpiece in Narrative Style.”
Written by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky in 1874, “Pictures at an Exhibition” is a 10-piece piano suite based on works by Russian architect and painter Viktor Hartmann.
Ideal for students in grades 3-8, “Mussorgsky in Miniature” combines music, storytelling and visual art. A Traverse Symphony Orchestra (TSO) octet will perform on stage with images of Hartmann’s visual art that inspired Mussorgsky projected behind the musicians, and Kate Botello of Interlochen Public Radio’s (IPR) “Kids…
