Music
The Zombies return to Milwaukee, this time at the Pabst
The classic '60s band might have been a footnote in history, were it not for their masterpiece "Odessey and Oracle," a post-breakup album that would later be the defining Summer of Love sound.
Sep 24th, 2013 by Sahan Jayasuriya
Global Union 2013
Artists from Sierra Leone, Pakistan, Canada and Milwaukee itself provided the soundtrack to Alverno Presents' annual world music fest.
Sep 22nd, 2013 by Howard Leu
Skylight Music Theatre
Viswa Subbaraman, the new artistic director at the Skylight, talks about his revolutionary inaugural season, beginning with a Bollywood-flavored "Fidelio."
Sep 20th, 2013 by Matthew Reddin
A thumbnail diary of a commission
TCD's David Bohn on discovering the bayan, working with virtuoso Stas Venglevski, and creating an original composition (debuting this Friday at UWM).
Sep 20th, 2013 by David Bohn
Andreas Delfs returns to open the fall MSO season
Guest pianist Jeremy Denk will also join for Liszt's first piano concerto, but the program's centerpiece is a performance of Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony.
Sep 18th, 2013 by Rob Gebelhoff
Youth Lagoon to play the Pabst Theater tonight
The indie pop act is set to perform at the Pabst Theater this evening, touring in support of their new album Wondrous Bughouse.
Sep 12th, 2013 by Sahan Jayasuriya
Quality Over Quantity
There's only a few theater and music events on stage this weekend, including a 'Grey Gardens" musical and Youth Lagoon, but consider it an appetizer for the fall arts rush next week.
Sep 10th, 2013 by Hannah McCarthy
Present Music
Artistic director Kevin Stalheim talks about "Inuksuit," their 99-percussionist season opener at Lynden Square Garden, and the unique, inventive season to come.
Sep 6th, 2013 by Matthew Reddin
Chicago quartet Disappears rematerializes at Cactus Club
Touring in support of their new album "Era," the band's solid reputation and fascinating blend of post-punk and psychedelic sounds should have you headed down to Bay View Friday night.
Sep 6th, 2013 by Sahan Jayasuriya
Early Music Now offers an instrumental clarinet history lesson
Guest artist Eric Hoeprich, along with keyboardist Byron Schenkman and Clara Rottsolk, will illustrate the evolution of the clarinet from its origins as the "chalumeau" to its more modern form.
Sep 5th, 2013 by Michael Barndt
The life of a forgotten suffragist, in song
Victoria Woodhull, a women's rights advocate and social reformer in the mid-1800s, is revived at Milwaukee Opera Theatre by sisters Susan Peterson Holmes and Peggy Peterson Ryan.
Sep 4th, 2013 by Matthew Reddin
Sounds on Stage
Many musical openings from Milwaukee Opera Theater, Present Music and Early Music Now, as well as opera lessons from Viswa Subbaraman and playwrights staging their own works.
Sep 3rd, 2013 by Hannah McCarthy
