Whether it’s in a TV show or commercial, the music playing at the grocery store, or in a Bugs Bunny cartoon, there are all kinds of places where you might hear a snippet of classical music and think, “I know that tune!”
On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, when the news broke of the terrorist attacks targeting the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, 38 airplanes were diverted to the small town of Gander, Newfoundland.
A journey through three works for string quartet, each of which in its own way took previous musical forms and put a new twist on them, is on tap for the final concert of the Adrian Symphony Orchestra’s Summer Chamber Series.
A precocious young girl who discovers she has unusual powers is at the center of “Matilda,” the musical based on a children’s book by Roald Dahl that opens Aug. 6 at the Croswell Opera House.