Keynote speaker Kai Bird is a Pulitzer Prize—winning biographer, journalist, and co-author of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, on which the blockbuster movie Oppenheimer was based. He is the executive director and distinguished lecturer of the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City.

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An Evening with Kai Bird

Severance Music Center

An evening filled with high-energy  music of Roma (Gypsies) from the Mediterranean and Balkan vibrant cultures! You can tap your toes to  the rhythms of Enescu’s Romanian Rhapsody, Brahms’ Hungarian Dances, or Gipsy Kings’ Medley, and more!

The concert will feature an internationally-acclaimed Balkan violinist Robert Lakatoš from Serbia performing Ravel’s Tzigane and Sarasate’s Caprice Basque on his private collection violin of Antonio Stradivari from 1709.  Mr. Lakatoš is one of the most promising young artists of his generation and the GLCO is thrilled to bring him to the northern Michigan audiences.

Ravel’s Tzigane | Gypsy Violin

Great Lakes Center for the Arts

The virtuoso soloist is rarely found playing the double bass, but Catalin Rotaru will demonstrate that he belongs in that elevated world of superstar performers.  According to Abbott and Costello, the name of the 2nd baseman is “What”, the 3rd baseman is “I don’t know” but if there ever was a question about “Who’s on 1st Bas(s)?, you will know the answer after Maestro Rotaru performs.

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