The 2014 Pops Concert series opens with Lance Luce playing the Mighty Wurlitzer on Sunday, March 16, 2014 at 3:00 pm. Broadway and Beyond is the show theme, with songs from Les Misérables, Wicked, and much more. General admission: $15, Children 12 and under: $5. Fenced parking next to theater on Gilbert St. Security also supervising street parking. Lance Luce is an internationally acclaimed theatre organist. He has played hundreds of concerts all over the United States, Canada, England and Australia. His concerts are praised for appealing to audiences of all ages, containing a wide variety of musical styles. At age 18, Lance won 1st place honors in the Yamaha National Electone organ competition in California. The next year he was appointed the Head Staff Organist at Radio City Music Hall in New York, on the largest Wurlitzer ever built. Lance has made many recordings, including being part of the famous Theatre Organ Greats - A Salute to Radio City Music Hall double LP. For many years, Lance was the Featured Entertainment at the console of a theatre organ at several Pizza Parlour style restaurants. Two in Michigan, and the highly successful Organ Grinder Restaurant in Toronto Canada, where he played for 8 years. Lance began playing the theatre pipe organ at age 10 at the Royal Oak Theatre near his Michigan home. By age 13 he was playing at that same theatre for intermissions. During his teenage years he began playing the organ at a local church on Sundays, and performed countless times for area organ clubs and societies. Lance is currently on the staff at the Fox Theatre, and is one of the organists at the Redford Theatre and Senate Theater in Detroit, Michigan. He continues to be a church organist, recording artist, and maintains a busy concert schedule.
Posted on: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 04:49:05 +0000
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