Anne Harrigan, Author at The Music Center of South Central Michigan

Symphony 4: The Magic of Cirque & Symphony

Saturday, March 4, 2023, 7:30 pm
WK Kellogg Auditorium

Your Battle Creek Symphony reaches new soaring heights with the magic of cirque with acrobatics—aerial silks, straps, flying pole, and lyra—choreographed to live symphonic music.

Symphony 3: Big Band Christmas

Saturday, December 10, 2022, 7:30 pm
WK Kellogg Auditorium

The Battle Creek Symphony jazzes up the holidays with a festive collection of holiday favorites in the big band style. This jumping, jiving, jingling concert will surely get your season off to a swinging start!

Symphony 2: A Night at the Opera

Saturday, November 5, 2022, 7:30 pm
WK Kellogg Auditorium
Dr. Gerald Case-Blanchard, baritone

Your Battle Creek Symphony teams up with baritone Dr. Gerald Case-Blanchard, the Battle Creek Community Chorus, and others to present a tour through some of the most beloved operas of all time.

Symphony 1: A European Landscape

Saturday, October 1, 2022, 7:30 pm
WK Kellogg Auditorium
Amit Peled, cello

The Battle Creek Symphony’s 124th season opens with “Fêtes” from Debussy’s Nocturnes, and extraordinary cellist Amit Peled performing Elgar’s Cello Concerto, plus Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.

Give Us Hope

Give Us Hope: A Choral Concert
Saturday, May 14, 2022, 3:00 PM
The Music Center, located on Kellogg Community College Campus,
in the Davidson Building, 450 North Ave, Battle Creek, MI
Battle Creek Girls Chorus and Sojourner Truth Choir

Join us for our FREE concert. Our choirs are excited to be back together again for a wonderful spring event. Bring your friends and family for an afternoon of uplifting and bright music!

Speakeasy: A Roaring ’20s Revue

Battle Creek Community Chorus
May 20, 2022, 7:30 pm
Binda Theater, Kellogg Community College campus
450 North Avenue, Battle Creek

Sssshhhh! It’s a secret! Get your exclusive access to the “speakeasy” as the Battle Creek Community Chorus celebrates the return of the “Roaring ‘20s” – the 1920s, that is – with a cabaret that features many of the popular songs of that decade, with a Dixieland combo and theatrical trappings to please the eye and ear.

Hold On, America, Hold On!

The music community illuminates issues facing African Americans today and explores Black history. On the morning after the murder of George Floyd, Anne Harrigan, the artistic director of the Music Center and conductor of the Battle Creek Symphony, decided to go out for a coffee in her Grand Rapids neighborhood only to find one of her favorite coffee shops boarded up. She knew protests were sweeping across the city, but the stark reality of those wooden windows stunned her.

We Rise Again Choral Concert

We Rise Again
Choral Concert
Battle Creek Community Chorus
Albion College Concert Choir and Symphony Orchestra
Saturday, February 26, 2022, 7:30 pm
Goodrich Chapel, Albion College, 105 N. Ingham, Albion

The Battle Creek Community Chorus joins the Albion College Concert Choir and Symphony Orchestra for a FREE concert, “We Rise Again,” on Saturday, February 26th at 7:30 pm. The choirs and orchestra will join forces for works of Mozart, and the choirs will combine for the ethereal “Stars” of Latvian composer Eriks Esenvalds.

Christmas Choral Concert

December 18, 2021, 3:00 pm
First Congregational Church, 145 Capital Ave NE, Battle Creek

Join the Battle Creek Community Chorus, Battle Creek Girls Chorus, and Sojourner Truth Choir as they present an evening of music to celebrate this special time of year!

Music Speaks Through the Battle Creek Symphony

In operation since 1899, the Battle Creek Symphony Orchestra (BCSO) represents the longest continuously performing orchestra in Michigan. With deep roots in Battle Creek and the surrounding area for the past 123 years, the BCSO has some of the highest quality symphonic traditions to be found.

Let’s take a look at the history of the BCSO, how it coped with the challenges of the past year, and what lies ahead for the 2021-2022 season.