Grand Ledge Opera House * General Seating * 2023 - 2024
Lansing Theatre Organ Presents the 27th Riverside Pops Season:
Fun With Old Friends!
AN AFTERNOON AT THE POPS
Lakewood Area Choral Society, Robert Oster, Artistic Director
Scott Smith, Organist
Sunday, October 1, 2023 - 3:00 p.m.
Dr. Robert Oster is founder of the famed 110-voice Lakewood Area Choral Society, and is in his 38th year as artisic director and conductor. Dr. Oster has retired after completing his thirty-fifth year of teaching choral music in the public schools; and currently serves as an adjudicator, guest conductor and clinician throughout Michigan. In January, 2010, he was awarded lifteime emeritus staus in the Michigan School Vocal Music Association. Dr. Oster maintains a small music studio, teaching voice and theory. In 2015, he authored and published his first book, "Singers, Zingers and Humdingers: Choral Conductor Do's and Don'ts." He also serves as organist at the First Presbyterian Church in Hastings. Scott Smith is a native and lifelong resident of Lansing. During his teens, he performed regularly on the Barton organ at the Michigan Theatre in downtown Lansing as its last House Organist, from 1972 to 1980. Scott was responsible for the organ's redesign for the Opera House, and oversaw the installation and tonal finishing. He was one of the original incorporators of Lansing Theatre Organ, and has served as the organization's President since it's inception. During the Christmas holiday shopping season, Scott performs on weekends at the Mole Hole of Marshall, now in his 35th year. In addition to concertizing and accompanying silent films, he also lectures about the pipe organ and his writings can be found on the pages of numerous pipe organ trade journals. He is also the owner of Scott Smith Pipe Organs, a full-service pipe organ business that services, builds and restores both theatre and church/classical pipe organs.
SILENT MOVIE: "STEAMBOAT BILL, JR." (1928)
Stephen Warner, Organist
Sunday, April 28, 2024 - 3:00 p.m.
In this, the last of Buster Keaton's classic silent films, he returns as a spoiled and naive college graduate to help the father he hasn't seen since childhood to run his less-than-successful steamboat business. Set along the MIssissippi River in a ficticious small town, the real star of the film is the special-effects tour de force, replete with cyclones, raging thunderstorms and collapsing buildings. Don't miss this hilarious, almost-forgotten Keaton classic, which includes his most famous visual gag. Traverse City native Stephen Warner is a staff organist for the Michigan Theatre, Ann Arbor where he regularly perfoms imtermissions and accompanies silent films. He began studying piano at age seven in a home where he was surrounded by dozens of phonographs and a giant record collection. That, and the promise of a theatre organ soon to arrive at a local musical instruments museum was enough to hook him for life! Steve is Music Director/Organist for Jefferson Avenue Presbyterian Church where he plays one of the nations's most historic E. M. Skinner organs. He is also owner/operator of Stephen J. Warner & Associates, a full-service pipe organ firm. Steve, who has performed numerous concerts and films for Riverside Pops lives in Southfield with his wife, vocalist Rose Randall Warner, who has also performed for the series.
All events take place at the Grand Ledge Opera House, 121 S. Bridge St. (M-100), Grand Ledge, MI. All programs/artists subject to change.
Doors open one hour in advance of performance time.
Tickets:
Individual tickets $12 in advance from LTO Box Office or Grand Ledge Opera House office, and $15 at the door, day of performance. Season tickets available ONLY from LTO box office, and are $20 for one ticket for each performance OR take advantage of our Mix 'N Match program, where you can pay the same $20 for two tickets in any combination of performances.
Individual tickets $12 in advance from the Grand Ledge Opera House office, and $15 at the door, day of performance.
To purchase tickets in advance:
Grand Ledge Opera House Office (rear of building; Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday, 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.)
121 South Bridge Street, @ River Street
Grand Ledge, MI 48837
517-627-1443
* Cash, money order, checks, VISA/Mastercard *
Ticket orders received by USPS one week or less from the day of performance will be held at the LTO box office and available as a will call.
All events take place at the Grand Ledge Opera House, 121 S. Bridge St. (M-100), Grand Ledge, MI. All programs/artists subject to change. Doors open one hour prior to performance time.
VISA, Mastercard, Amex and Discover credit cards now accepted for tickets on concert days!
The box office, concession counter and record counter open one hour before each concert when the doors open and during intermission. For your convenience, both the box office and record counter remain open for five minutes after each concert. Concessions close after intermission.
SEE YOU ON SUNDAY THE 1st OF OCTOBER!!!