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Interlochen Center For the Arts
Categories: Arts & Entertainment Performing Arts Shopping Musical Instruments & Teachers Education Performing Arts, Musical Instruments & Teachers, Education [Edit]
4000 Hwy M-137Interlochen, MI 49643
(231) 276-4400
- Price Range:
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$$$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
5 reviews for Interlochen Center For the Arts
5 reviews in English
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Review from Joy G.
5/29/2009 3 photos
While I was a college student studying music in New Jersey, I was recruited by a friend on a whim to spend the summer as a counselor at Interlochen Arts Summer Camp. It was a very interesting and cool experience.
Interlochen is an amazing place to be, whether you are a student, teacher, counselor, performer or spectator. Interlochen is many things at once. It is:
*a performing arts center with many venues.
*a boarding school for high school for the fine and performing arts
*a fine and performing arts summer camp for school aged children from all around the world.
*a radio station
*a hotel and a gift shop and more... all nesteled in a beautifully wooded campus that has two lakes and bathing beaches.
Interlochen is a not a place for students with a casual interest in the arts. Particularly at the middle and high school level, the kids are hardcore serious about their studies. They have lots of fun, but the price tag at Interlochen makes it a very costly and exclusive experience. The boarding school is so expensive it is out of reach for many students, so the summer camp is the only taste many children get of Interlochen. If I could afford to send my children to Interlochen, I would do so without hesitation.
Performers from all genres grace the stages at Interlochen. The large open air stage at the center of campus is a really neat place to watch a concert. While I was there Yanni, kd Lang, the Monkees, James Galway and many others performed and I got to see them all as part of the job. It was so much fun working with the kids and enjoying beauty of the camp and all Interlochen had to offer. -
Review from jason e.
Chicago, IL
9/22/2008
HOLY MOLY!
Are you kidding me?
My life would be so incredibly different without the land of the stately pine. Many of my best friends were met here, some of my greatest and saddest memories are from here, and the seeds of my career were sown here as well.
R.I.P. basshut. We miss you.
If you have a kid who is into the arts at all, beg, borrow, or steal the money to send them to Interlochen next summer. Beware the Academy though. Your kids will experiment with same sex love, questionable fashion, and drop the fiddle after college to pursue a career in finance.
Sound the call, m*therf*cker!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -
Review from Pat R.
Homewood, IL
10/17/2007
The Interlochen Center for the Arts was founded as the National Music Camp by Joseph Maddy in 1927. The year before, he conducted the first National High School Orchestra and set about giving a summer home to the ensemble. Since then, the likes of Van Cliburn, John Phillip Sousa, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Ella Fitzgerald, and many other great artists have joined the concert schedule. In the 60's an arts high school, the Interlochen Academy, has made the Center an year around organization.
The center hosts the International Music Camp during the summer months, the Arts Academy during the year, and hosts concerts in its venues year around. WIAA is the NPR radio station run by the Center.
A true gem of the country and a cultural treasure of the Midwest. -
Review from Susan F.
Ashburn, VA
7/4/2008
I spent four awesome summers of my life here. I will never forget those summers. Every summer I think fondly of my time spent there. Ummm ah...one time at band camp.... :)
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Review from XY Z.
New York, NY
3/2/2010
Knickers, knee socks, and the highest-quality music there is for high school and middle school kids. I was a camper for five summers and a lifeguard/counselor for one. If you are in the area, it is definitely worth your time to stop by for a WYSO concert....
