Classical

Review: Give me that old-time avant-garde
Review

Give me that old-time avant-garde

The Unruly Music Festival opens with C2, a flute and cello duo, and a mixed bag that includes some old-time academic music.

Review: Legally Blonde the Musical
Review

Legally Blonde the Musical

Elle Woods breezes into the Marcus Center bringing the Milwaukee audience what they crave -- frothy song and dance without too much substance.

Review: Alverno Presents Zemog/El Gallo Bueno
Review

Alverno Presents Zemog/El Gallo Bueno

Jazz? Rock? Latin? Abraham Gomez-Delgado's septet is a little of all of that, and a lot of fun.

Blonde Ambition

Blonde Ambition

An interview with actor Barry Anderson, one of the men in pink.

Review: Philomusica’s Jewish Expressions
Review

Philomusica’s Jewish Expressions

The skilled quartet offers up innovative programming and strong performances at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music.

Review: MSO Pops Movie Music
Review

MSO Pops Movie Music

Guest Pops conductor Jack Everly focuses on big scores for big films in a well-prepared, well-performed concert.

This Week at MSO Pops: Hooray for Hollywood
This Week at MSO Pops

Hooray for Hollywood

The people and the story behind Hooray for Hollywood, the national anthem of the movie business.

Review: Ohlsson’s great Chopin at the MSO
Review

Ohlsson’s great Chopin at the MSO

De Waart makes sense of Elgar's sprawling Symphony No. 1 and has fun with a rarely heard Berlioz overture.

MSO extends de Waart’s contract five years

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.

This Week at the MSO: Brush Up Your Berlioz
This Week at the MSO

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.

Review: Frankly Music and the Lipinski Stradivarius
Review

Frankly Music and the Lipinski Stradivarius

Frank Almond brings out the best in a great violin.

Review: More Amazement from Present Music
Review

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.