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Updating the educational beat
Taking a page from Strini's playbook, Patti finds some interesting educational tidbits on her desk.
Jul 25th, 2011 by Patti Wenzel
Fine Arts Quartet/Quintet closes summer season
A delightful quintet by "other" brother Michael Haydn, a Verdi quartet with cello in the tenor role and a tragic Mozart quintet often too lovely to despair.
Jun 30th, 2011 by Michael Barndt
Seven things Strini’s been meaning to tell you
UPAF, Youngblood, Skylight, MSO, UWM Dance, Creative Alliance, JMKAC, First Stage have been bouncing around in his head and now on our pages.
Jun 26th, 2011 by Tom Strini
Tsunami relief for Japan is the goal of Milwaukee classical artists
Frank Almond, Jillian Bruss, the Fine Arts and Philomusica String Quartets, the Prometheus Trio and artists from UWM join in a benefit for Japan.
Jun 23rd, 2011 by Matthew Reddin
John Preece shines as Fiddler’s Tevye
Fiddler on the Roof is a tradition that will thrill at the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts.
Jun 15th, 2011 by Patti Wenzel
Carte Blanche’s “Titus Andronicus” a dish best not served
Inconsistent portrayals and the wrong tone reduce the impact of Shakespeare's bloodiest tragedy.
Jun 5th, 2011 by Matthew Reddin
Youngblood’s take on Faust, MSO’s Wicked Divas
Even on Memorial Day weekend, actors and musicians are stirring.
May 24th, 2011 by Tom Strini
Sweet ballet, a tough musical, a uke, more
MBC dusts off "Coppelia," Skylight brings home "The Adding Machine," Bel Canto + MSO, funk in Brookfield, hi-tech art at UWM.
May 17th, 2011 by Tom Strini
Delfs returns, a three-opera weekend and Mad Hot
The Florentine stages a Baroque double bill, Windfall puts on a one-man opera, Delfs conducts the MSO, and more.
May 10th, 2011 by Tom Strini
Magic for Eye and Ear
European cirque style proves a good match for European musical masterworks.
Apr 30th, 2011 by Michael Madden
Danceworks gets physical and brainy in Bay View
Danceworks has never done anything like the brilliant "Stone Soup," a 45-minute abstraction of the highest order.
Apr 28th, 2011 by Tom Strini
A high-brow week, except for those Brain Thieves
An incredible five theater openings this week, plus Danceworks, Pops, and Early Music Now.
Apr 26th, 2011 by Tom Strini
