Lawrence Cosentino

No one will pop a quiz, assess your productivity, weigh you, check your cholesterol or otherwise judge your improvement after you attend a fine arts performance at the Wharton Center. The arts …

To lovers of classical music, Timothy Muffitt’s 20 years as music director of the Lansing Symphony Orchestra went by in a flash. But not to him. “There was no going by in a flash,” …

When artist, photographer and filmmaker Jane Rosemont returned to Lansing last week to attend a reception for her first-ever exhibition of collage art at the Nelson Gallery, there was much rejoicing, …

At the tender age of 102, the “Pines of Rome,” the stars of the Lansing Symphony Orchestra’s season finale, are mere sprouts when compared to the hoary sequoias of the standard repertoire. …

Lullabies are wonderful for babies. But who comforts the mothers? Clarinetist Tasha Warren, assistant professor of chamber music at Michigan State University and member of the Lansing Symphony …

From the beginning, the Lansing Symphony Orchestra’s season finale was all about endings. The very first piece on Friday evening’s (May 15) program, Antonín Dvořák’s “Carnival Overture,” …

Jazz singer Melissa Morgan is always in a New York state of mind, but the NBA champion New York Knicks have given her a massive adrenaline boost, just in

It's a rare enough treat to catch a jazz vibraphonist live on stage. The spectacle of two vibraphones, manned by two of the most virtuosic vibraphonists alive, promises a night like no other at the Summer Solstice Jazz Festival.

After making a splash on the national scene in Memphis, Tennessee, earlier this year, Lansing bluesman Justin Deason and his band, Just Magnetic, have been grinding hard at several local venues and are ready to jump in the lake — the Houghton Lake Blues Festival.

Perched on a bluff overlooking the Grand River at Adado Riverfront Park near downtown Lansing is a wine-dark eagle with a rumpled, wise face and feathers that surge into the sky.