Classical
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.
Jun 8th, 2013 by Tom Strini
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.
Jun 6th, 2013 by Tom Strini
Mystical Elgar to end the classical season
"Dream of Gerontius," Elgar's crowning achievement, is an article of faith for chorus, soloists and orchestra.
Jun 1st, 2013 by Tom Strini
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.
May 28th, 2013 by Hannah McCarthy
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.
May 25th, 2013 by Tom Strini
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.
May 23rd, 2013 by Tom Strini
Lush sounds echo in the Basilica to end the MSO series
The Milwaukee Symphony ends its Basilica series with an all-strings program.
May 18th, 2013 by Michael Barndt
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.
May 17th, 2013 by Tom Strini
Maestro Almond closes the season
Frankly Music's season ends on happy notes of Mendelssohn, Dvorak and Haydn.
May 14th, 2013 by Michael Barndt
Frankly Music’s maestro conducts a concluding concert
Frank Almond puts down his violin and picks up a baton for Frankly Music's season finale Monday at Wisconsin Lutheran College.
May 12th, 2013 by Tom Strini
Soprano Jamie-Rose Guarrine, Mezzo Adriana Zabala
Two lead singers in the Florentine's "Le Nozze di Figaro" go way back -- to Rome.
May 9th, 2013 by Tom Strini
Mozart at MSO, Sondheim at Windfall
Tom Strini and Matthew Reddin take the thread tying Mozart and Sondheim together this weekend and play with it, in this latest installment.
May 2nd, 2013 by Tom Strini & Matthew Reddin
