Presented as part of Sunday on Blue Lake, our series of broadcast concerts by the West Michigan Symphony will feature the orchestra's 2025-26 Classical Masterworks Series—and beging with the series opening concert from November 14, 2025, as Music Director Scott Speck leads a program selected by popular patron vote, opening with Rossini's William Tell Overture and closing with Antonín Dvořák's beloved Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, "From the New World." In between piano sensation Charlie Albright dazzles the audience with Sergei Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.
Then, in the final hour of the program, host Foley Schuler will pay tribute to highly influential and acclaimed American composer Steve Reich upon his 90th birthday this weekend with music from two of the composer masterworks, Different Trains (featuring the Kronos Quartet) and the landmark work that helped change to change the course of modern music, his Music for 18 Musicians, from the original 1976 recording featuring the Steven Reich Ensemble.
You can hear Sunday on Blue Lake with Foley Schuler every Sunday afternoon from 1 until 4 pm on Blue Lake Public Radio.
