Culture Desk
Tom Strini’s Culture Desk takes on both traditional performing arts in and around Milwaukee and a few things that fall into the bigger idea about art and life.
MSO Holiday Pops, Hamlisch
The concert review is on top; an interview with Hamlisch follows.
Dec 4th, 2009 by Tom Strini
Updated Friday 12/4
That Valdes Latin Jazz dynasty, an early Christmas present for the MSO; also Polly Morris, Danceworks, Plaid's Ding, best Christmas video ever.
Dec 1st, 2009 by Tom Strini
The Skylight’s Plaid Tidings
Great performances and just the right tone mark the Skylight's sweet and goofy new holiday show.
Nov 28th, 2009 by Tom Strini
The Skylight’s holiday show
Paul Helm is forever plaid. Seriously; he was in Forever Plaid in Platteville, and now he's in the holiday spinoff, Plaid Tidings, at the Skylight.
Nov 25th, 2009 by Tom Strini
Present Music’s Thanksgiving
Kevin Stalheim has assembled a program of new music informed by history and tradition.
Nov 22nd, 2009 by Tom Strini
The Florentine’s Tosca
The Florentine has a spare new set for Tosca. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
Nov 21st, 2009 by Tom Strini
Meet composer Alexandra du Bois
Present Music, the Milwaukee Choral Artists and the Milwaukee Children's Choir will premiere du Bois' In Beauty May I Walk Sunday.
Nov 20th, 2009 by Tom Strini
Florentine’s Tosca not the same old, same old
Director Dean Anthony and designer Noel Stollmack intend to bring new life to Puccini's iconic opera.
Nov 17th, 2009 by Tom Strini
Shostakovich at Frankly Music
Frank Almond ponders how life and art intersect in Shostakovich's music. Almond and friends also play the daylights out of it.
Nov 16th, 2009 by Tom Strini
Fine Arts Quartet and guest
After a fuzzy start, the Fine Arts Quartet found its focus Sunday afternoon, with guest violist Guillermo Figueroa.
Nov 15th, 2009 by Tom Strini
Bruckner’s grandeur at the MSO
Guest conductor Lawrence Renes shapes Bruckner's Symphony No. 8, an Alpine panorama in sound.
Nov 13th, 2009 by Tom Strini
Renes on Bruckner
Lawrence Renes has led 13 different orchestras through Bruckner's vast Symphony No. 8. What has he learned?
Nov 10th, 2009 by Tom Strini
