Classical

MKE This Week: Starry Nights of Midsummer Culture
MKE This Week

Starry Nights of Midsummer Culture

Festa Italiana, Sunset Playhouse, Off the Wall Theatre, UWM Dance and the Wilson Center aren't taking the summer off.

Sublime Brahms sextets close Summer Evenings of Music

Sublime Brahms sextets close Summer Evenings of Music

The Fine Arts Quartet brought in two guest performers to close out their summer season, performing energetic sextets at the Zelazo Center.

Fine Arts Quartet: Summer Evenings 3
Fine Arts Quartet

Summer Evenings 3

UWM's string quartet offers Chopin concerto reduced, here-and-gone Stravinsky, sublime Ravel.

Theatre Gigante presents Guy Klucevsek at Paddy’s Pub

Theatre Gigante presents Guy Klucevsek at Paddy’s Pub

Klucevsek, the thinking person's accordionist, played a brilliant concert of his own music -- at an East Side bar.

Guy Klucevsek, composer-accordionist, returns to Milwaukee

Guy Klucevsek, composer-accordionist, returns to Milwaukee

Theatre Gigante presents Klucevsek in concert at Paddy's Pub Thursday and Friday.

Fine Arts Quartet: Summer Evenings 2
Fine Arts Quartet

Summer Evenings 2

UWM's Sunday-night music series continues without a hitch, even with Schubert as a last-minute sub for Tchaikovsky.

MKE This Week: Something to Celebrate
MKE This Week

Something to Celebrate

Polish Fest opens, John C. Reilly goes underground, the Fine Arts Quartet plays on, "Wicked" returns, MAM's "30 Americans," and UWM dances in sunshine and under the stars.

Fine Arts Quartet’s Summer Evenings Opener

Fine Arts Quartet’s Summer Evenings Opener

Guest violist Juan-Miguel Hernandez and guest cellist Denis Brott fit right in with violinists Ralph Evans and Efim Boico and cellist Robert Cohen.

MSO: Music of “Mad Men” makes smart Pops
MSO

Music of “Mad Men” makes smart Pops

MSO Pops might have found a keeper in guest conductor Steve Reineke, a charmer who can deliver musically and knows how to design a marketable program.

PianoArts: A music festival weekend and a competition, too
PianoArts

A music festival weekend and a competition, too

PianoArts hosts its first competition for Wisconsin pianists aged 11-15, even as it puts on an array of concerts focusing on Vienna and Paris.

MSO: Mystical Elgar to end the classical season
MSO

Mystical Elgar to end the classical season

"Dream of Gerontius," Elgar's crowning achievement, is an article of faith for chorus, soloists and orchestra.

MKE This Week: 2012-13 season not quite done
MKE This Week

2012-13 season not quite done

BB King gets the Riverside Blues, the MSO ends classical season with epic Elgar, fairway farce at Sunset Playhouse, Bay View's Gallery Night, Highland Games in Tosa.