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Early Music Now: Hearing the Renaissance clearly
Early Music Now

Hearing the Renaissance clearly

Stile Antico shows how a brainy composer, Thomas Tallis, made music that turns off your brain and lifts you to a spiritual plane.

Prometheus Trio: Delving into new rep, mastering the familiar
Prometheus Trio

Delving into new rep, mastering the familiar

Timothy Klabunde, Scott Tisdel and Stefanie Jacob play music by Georges Onslow, Frank Bridge and Dvorak.

Milwaukee scribe: 7 things I’ve been meaning to share
Milwaukee scribe

7 things I’ve been meaning to share

RE: Tim Cuprisin, Laddie Junkunc, Frank Almond, Florentine Grammy, Steve Murphy, First Stage, Rep Artisans Fair.

MSO Holiday Pops: A Gentle Christmas
MSO Holiday Pops

A Gentle Christmas

With Jeff Tyzik conducting, the MSO's Holiday Pops are short on glitz and long on warmth.

Frankly Music’s Epic Bach

Frankly Music’s Epic Bach

Frank Almond, Edward Arron and Kyle Armbrust play a sonically lush, rhythmically bracing Goldberg Variations.

MSO: Lawrence Renes spins “The Planets”
MSO

Lawrence Renes spins “The Planets”

Guest conductor Renes leads Holst's astrological suite and Elgar's "Enigma Variations."

Bach’s “Goldberg,” for strings at Frankly Music

Bach’s “Goldberg,” for strings at Frankly Music

Frank Almond mounts a trio take on Bach's epic keyboard piece Monday and Tuesday. In May, the Philomusica Quartet take it up.

Philomusica Quartet + Mathieu Dufour

Philomusica Quartet + Mathieu Dufour

Dufour, the Chicago Symphony's principal flutist, excels with the excellent Philomusica Quartet at the Wisconsin Conservatory.

“The Music Man” lives at the Skylight

“The Music Man” lives at the Skylight

The Skylight Opera Theatre is the natural state for River City, Iowa, Professor Harold HIll, and innocence.

Present Music: A fitting, coherent Thanksgiving concert
Present Music

A fitting, coherent Thanksgiving concert

Present Music's Kevin Stalheim built an entire program around its venue, the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist.

Early Music Now: Handel, master of opera
Early Music Now

Handel, master of opera

Two splendid singers, countertenor Daniel Taylor and soprano Deborah York, do arias and duets with the Theatre of Early Music.

MSO at the Basilica: Handel floats, Bach sinks
MSO at the Basilica

Handel floats, Bach sinks

Conductor Lecce-Chong and chamber-sized MSO shine in a program with two of Handel's "Water Music" Suites.