Classical
Marcus Center presents a vibrant “West Side Story”
Broadway Series hosts a major touring revival of the Bernstein/Sondheim classic, through Sunday.
Apr 12th, 2012 by Mary O'Hara Stacy
Gaffigan and Almond shine
James Gaffigan gives us bright Haydn and vivid Dvorak, Frank Almond gets everything to be had from Glazunov's Violin Concerto.
Apr 7th, 2012 by Tom Strini
Conductor James Gaffigan
Getting to know James Gaffigan before his third guest-conducting stint with the Milwaukee Symphony.
Apr 5th, 2012 by Tom Strini
UPAF Kickoff, New York coolness, Florentine Day, MacDowell Club
Milwaukee's Art Scribe never runs out of things to tell you.
Apr 5th, 2012 by Tom Strini
The Milwaukee Symphony at the Basilica
A chamber-sized MSO and chorus do 20th/21st-century music at the Basilica of St. Josaphat with viola soloist Robert Levine.
Mar 31st, 2012 by Tom Strini
Violist Robert Levine’s new trick
Derek Bermel's bluesy "Soul Garden" takes the violist out of his comfort zone. Fine with him.
Mar 29th, 2012 by Tom Strini
The Fine Arts Quartet, all in for Saint-Saens
The Fine Arts Quartet and pianist Cristina Ortiz give us to ponder the French composer's place in the scheme of things.
Mar 25th, 2012 by Tom Strini
MSO Pops go Irish with fiddler Eileen Ivers
Jeff Tyzik fills in for Marvin Hamlisch on the podium for the musical wearing of the green.
Mar 24th, 2012 by Ellen Burmeister
Cellist Robert Cohen, of the Fine Arts Quartet
British cellist takes the chair long occupied by the late Wolfgang Laufer.
Mar 23rd, 2012 by Tom Strini
Philomusica Quartet, with guest violist Erin Pipal
The Philomusica Quartet, convincing with Mendelssohn and Shostakovich, wrestles Beethoven's Opus 127 to a draw.
Mar 20th, 2012 by Tom Strini
Patsy Cline lives — at the Milwaukee Rep
At the Stackner Cabaret, Kelley Faulkner becomes Patsy Cline and Angela Iannone is her laugh-a-minute pal, Louise.
Mar 18th, 2012 by Tom Strini
Ferrara, Renaissance music’s avant-garde hotbed
Piffaro and The King's Noyse (strings, winds) survey musical daring in 16th-century Italy.
Mar 17th, 2012 by Tom Strini
