Classical

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.

Present Music’s wild party of a season finale

Present Music’s wild party of a season finale

Present Music ends its season with a vibrant, raucous party of a chamber music concert at Turner Hall.

Sean Friar among Present Music’s “Multitude”

Sean Friar among Present Music’s “Multitude”

Present Music ends its season with a multitude of pieces, including an electric guitar premiere by Sean Friar.

Lush sounds echo in the Basilica to end the MSO series

Lush sounds echo in the Basilica to end the MSO series

The Milwaukee Symphony ends its Basilica series with an all-strings program.

Skylight: Bill Theisen, exiting with “Porgy and Bess”
Skylight

Bill Theisen, exiting with “Porgy and Bess”

Gershwin's great American opera crowns Theisen's ninth and final year as Skylight Music Theatre's artistic director.

Frankly Music: Maestro Almond closes the season
Frankly Music

Maestro Almond closes the season

Frankly Music's season ends on happy notes of Mendelssohn, Dvorak and Haydn.