Name: Music is Therapy at Building 50 in Traverse City
Start: 2025-05-10T19:00:00-04:00
Location: Kirkbride Hall

Music is Therapy at Building 50 in Traverse City

Join IPR in the restoration celebration of Building 50 in Traverse City! We'll be there with music and dance at Kirkbride Hall.
The restoration of Building 50 in Traverse City is an achievement that should be celebrated with music. And soon it will be!
Join IPR in Kirkbride Hall on May 10 at 7:00 to hear the music, meet the creator of the PBS show, Seth Boustead, and hear about turning the story of architectural renovation into music and dance. The event is free; no tickets needed, general admission.
Interlochen Center for the Arts faculty Cynthia Van Maanen and Thomas Childs have composed “transformational landscapes” to commemorate the rebirth of northern Michigan’s Kirkbride asylum.
The story of Building 50 will be told with their music for PBS viewers around the country in the independent series “Songs About Buildings and Moods.”
This episode will be the first in the series with dance, featuring ICA dance instructor Katherine Dorn. Musicians invited to perform include Interlochen students Ava Gilbert, flute, and Joseph Rodriguez, percussion, as well as Interlochen alums and members of the Viridian Strings violist Joseph Skerik and cellist Kyle Stachnik.
The creator of “Songs About Buildings and Moods," Seth Boustead, will also present a finished episode from his series about the Fisher Building. "Songs About Buildings and Moods" is a production of Access Contemporary Music (ACM).
Sponsored by Friends of the Historic Commons, who are restoring the arboretum at Building 50.
For more from IPR, visit: interlochenpublicradio.org/2025-03-07/music-is-therapy-at-building-50-in-traverse-city