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Sunday on Blue Lake: "Songs of Farewell"

Blue Lake Public Radio | By Foley Schuler
Published August 17, 2025 at 9:46 AM EDT
Your Host, age 14, as a Blue Lake camper in 1985. Seen with his mother and brother in front of the Happy Camper Store, and also with the WBLV satellite dish.

On this final day of the official camp season at Blue Lake Fine Arts camp, Foley presents music of farewell—and in the final hour will mark the 40th anniversary of his own having been a camper here with some of the music he performed at his Final Sunday concert in 1985.

Musical highlights this week on Sunday on Blue Lake include Haydn's Symphony Number 45, "The Farewell," as well as, "Der Abschied" (The Farewell), the beautiful final section from Gustav Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde—The Song of the Earth—featuring soprano Jessye Norman, both in the 10 o'clock hour, and in the 11 o'clock hour, music that Foley Schuler himself played with his orchestra as a camper at Blue Lake almost 40 years ago to the day: The Symphonic Dances from West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein.

You can hear Sunday on Blue Lake with Foley Schuler every Sunday morning from 9:00 until noon on Blue Lake Public Radio.
Foley Schuler
Encouraged by creative parents, Foley began his music career at age 7, studying violin with Jean Manning at North Muskegon Public Schools. As a Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp camper, he became Blue Lake Public Radio’s first high school intern. Foley earned an English Literature degree from Hope College, and Masters in Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from the Warren Wilson College. He has performed with the West Michigan (formerly West Shore) Symphony; served on the English Department faculty at Muskegon Community College, and been the Music, Art & Theatre reviewer for the Muskegon Chronicle. He follows his love of the arts around the globe, but says, “There is no place like the Blue Lake setting, sharing extraordinary music with our listeners.” Foley hosts Blue Lake Public Radio’s weekday classical music from 1 to 5 p.m. and “Sunday on Blue Lake”.
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