by Josiah Tazelaar | Nov 30, 2020
No need to remind current listeners of the incredible circumstances of this Pro Musica season, but for future readers: this season is full of firsts: Never before have there not been an audience coming together at a concert hall. Never before, has the...
by Frank Bunker | Sep 30, 2020
It is with heavy hearts that we report Ms. Anna “Ann” Kondak, one of Pro Musica Detroit’s great supporters, has passed. Ms. Kondak died Sept. 24, 2020. She was 92 years of age. Members of Pro Musica will remember Ms. Kondak as she enjoyed performances for more than 60...
by Josiah Tazelaar | Feb 25, 2020
A good-sized audience was treated to one of PMD’s rarer presentations: two guitarists, female, and not from Latin America, Iberia, or Nashville, but from China, and they impressed! From the very first note, I was enthralled. The Chaconne (from...
by Josiah Tazelaar | Oct 7, 2019
How can it be: a piano recital without music by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Liszt, or Rachmaninov?? Well, it can be wonderful, if someone like Roman Rabinovich created “An Homage to Picasso” that uses piano music to...
by Ruth Zaromp | May 18, 2019
The Pro Musica organization of Detroit has been around for most of the 20th century until the present. This organization has brought in top musicians and has created an audience that provides a sense of respect and pride within anybody who participates in it. I count...
by Josiah Tazelaar | Mar 24, 2019
Let us praise a great man: Aaron Dworkin, who had a dream that became reality. He was aware that Latin-American and African-American youngsters had little or no exposure to classical music, yet had the innate ability to succeed in the genre if only given a...
by Josiah Tazelaar | Nov 9, 2018
It was a fine musical evening for Detroiters: Detroit’s best vocal ensemble, “Audivi” was singing at Blessed Sacrament; a full house at the large hall in Orchestra Hall wowed to the music and acrobatics of DSO’s “Cirque de la...
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