Classical
MSO extends de Waart’s contract five years
Runaway artistic and box office success leads to long-term agreement with music director Edo de Wart.
Apr 2nd, 2010 by Tom Strini
Brush Up Your Berlioz
The MSO will play the Overture to Beatrice and Benedict, Berlioz's opera after Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. Shakespeare loomed large in the composer's life.
Mar 31st, 2010 by Tom Strini
Frankly Music and the Lipinski Stradivarius
Frank Almond brings out the best in a great violin.
Mar 30th, 2010 by Tom Strini
More Amazement from Present Music
Kevin Stalheim's group plays Schoenberg, John Adams, Raymond Scott's crazy stuff from mid-century and Mason Bates' electronica crossover.
Mar 28th, 2010 by Tom Strini
Present Music connects cartoons to the avant-garde
John Adams, Schoenberg, Raymond Scott, Warner Brothers cartoons, Mason Bates connected? Oh yes, they are.
Mar 25th, 2010 by Tom Strini
Hal Rammel
When Hal Rammel began experimenting with music, he wound up reinventing the wheel (among other things).
Mar 25th, 2010 by Mark Metcalf
We Six bops it Monk-style
Thelonious Monk's modern jazz inspires the Conservatory's We Six final 2010 concert. [Thursday update: Concert is SOLD OUT.]
Mar 24th, 2010 by Patti Wenzel
A Wiz made for kids glitters at First Stage
First Stage has adapted the 1975 Broadway version of The Wizard of Oz.
Mar 22nd, 2010 by Peggy Sue Dunigan
Caravan Ensemble at Early Music Now
As the Jewish southern diaspora reached from Persia to Spain, it accreted many musical traditions into its own.
Mar 20th, 2010 by Tom Strini
The Florentine’s Elmer Gantry
A flawed masterpiece brings a great American novel to the opera stage.
Mar 20th, 2010 by Tom Strini
You’re all sinners!
As the Florentine mounts the Midwest premiere of Elmer Gantry (the opera), we look at the Sinclair Lewis novel and the 1960 film version.
Mar 19th, 2010 by Barbara Castonguay
Chamber Music Milwaukee fetes Libby Larsen
Libby Larsen is funny, charming and warm -- just like her music.
Mar 18th, 2010 by Tom Strini
