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Where We Are Now: Present Music
Where We Are Now

Present Music

Milwaukee's outstanding new-music group is the third subject in TCD's summer series of snapshots of arts groups.

Review: Fine Arts Quartet’s summer finale
Review

Fine Arts Quartet’s summer finale

A strong concert and a bit of news from the string quartet in residence at UWM.

Where We Are Now: The Florentine Opera
Where We Are Now

The Florentine Opera

This is not your father's Florentine.

Review: Fine Arts Quartet Summer Evening No. 3
Review

Fine Arts Quartet Summer Evening No. 3

Soprano Mary Elizabeth Williams shoots out the lights and goes home. Pianist Katherine Chi barges in among the guys.

Review: Present Music’s Wherehouse lightning
Review

Present Music’s Wherehouse lightning

Can new-music chamber concerts be sexy? Oh yes.

Du Yun, Present Music’s Wherehouse diva

Du Yun, Present Music’s Wherehouse diva

Du Yun, Present Music's guest, is at home performing in clubs or composing for the Detroit Symphony.

Review: Guest Artists deliver at Summer Evenings of Music
Review

Guest Artists deliver at Summer Evenings of Music

Clarinetist Patrick Messina and pianist Anna Polonsky enhance the Fine Arts Quartet's summer series at UWM.

Review: Hamlisch’s Patriotic Pops
Review

Hamlisch’s Patriotic Pops

The MSO's closing program is more Americana than Americanism, as Hamlisch minimizes the jingo and maximizes the jingle.

This Week at the MSO Pops: An early July 4
This Week at the MSO Pops

An early July 4

Marvin Hamlisch ends the orchestra season with patriotic numbers by songwriters whose hearts beat true to the red, white and blue.

Review: Fine Arts Quartet’s summer opener
Review

Fine Arts Quartet’s summer opener

Pianist Christopher Taylor is the quartet's guest artist on a satisfying program.

Review: The MSO’s Mahler Third
Review

The MSO’s Mahler Third

Yes, this symphony means something. Something important.

Thoughts and notes as the season winds down

Thoughts and notes as the season winds down

The Fine Arts Quartet, Frankly Music, those incredible dance students at UWM, Edo and Antwerp, the MSO and Carnegie Hall.