Friday, February 20 from 6:00 to 11:00 p.m.
at the Potter House in Lansing
Celebrate WKAR's Classical Music with a Grand Evening at Lansing's Potter House
It will be a star-filled of fine dining, good company, and beautiful classical music at the Potter House to celebrate the WKAR Endowment for Classical Music. The event is Friday, February 20 from 6:00 to 11:00 p.m.
The Potter House is one of Lansing’s exquisite 1926 homes. Jim McClurken and Sergei Kvitko have graciously opened their historic residence for this festive gala which harks back the city’s opulent parties of decades past.
Highlighting the evening will be an intimate concert in the third floor ballroom, featuring several of mid-Michigan’s finest musicians, who are also faculty members of the MSU College of Music, including Suren Bagratuni (cello), Yuri Gandelsman (viola), Melanie Helton (soprano), and Ralph Votapek (piano). The evening will also feature a special appearance by New York composer/pianist Ricky Ian Gordon.
Reservations
Space for the Potter House event is limited to 100 guests. Tickets are $125 per person with $75 tax-deductible. To register to attend, or to obtain additional information, please contact Becky Scheel at (517) 432-3120, ext. 354, or via e-mail at reservations@wkar.org. Payment may be made by VISA or MasterCard.
The WKAR Endowment for Classical Music
In honor of 90.5 WKAR’s 60th anniversary, the station has launched a five-year campaign to raise $500,000 in endowment funds to support classical music services on WKAR. The Potter House event celebrates the station’s rich history of classical music services and the endowment to establish permanent funding for classical music on WKAR. Though primarily designed to provide support of the genre on WKAR-FM , endowment revenue may also be used for providing classical music online and for local WKAR-TV program offerings, as well as supporting other related areas of our classical music services.
The campaign is already off to a great start with more than $140,000 in endowment funds raised for WKAR’s classical music service, committed from close to 250 WKAR members.
For further information about the WKAR Endowment for Classical Music, please contact Seth Martin at (517) 432-3120 , ext. 362, or by e-mail at: Seth@wkar.org.
Made Possible By
This WKAR Endowment for Classical Music event is graciously sponsored by contributions from Eileen Newman (in memory of Leonard M. Newman), the Capital Region Community Foundation, and Gordon Food Service, with a special thanks to Blue Griffin Recording.
published: February 9, 2009
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