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HOLLAND, Mich. (AP) — Hope College's new $33 million music center opened to students this weekend.
The Holland Sentinel reports ( http://bit.ly/1JB5VyY ) that the Jack H. Miller Center for the Musical Arts in Holland has been under construction for two years. The main floor of the 64,000-square-foot center has classrooms, faculty studios, two large rehearsal rooms, a 125-seat recital hall, main performance hall and a recording studio.
Music department chairwoman Julia Randel says she hopes the center attracts students to Hope. She also wants it to see it become a destination for professionals.
The first public event will be a guest recital on Sept. 22 in the Howard Recital Hall by saxophonist Henning Schroeder of Ohio Northern University. The center will have its first concert in the main 800-seat performance hall in February.
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