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It’s like speed dating, but artsy
This week: violin virtuoso Joshua Bell plays with the MSO, Off the Wall takes on Brecht and We Six takes the "A Train" with Billy Strayhorn.
Mar 22nd, 2011 by Tom Strini
Rising young clarinetist, pianist at Wisconsin Lutheran College
Clarinetist José Franch-Ballester and pianist Anna Polonsky survey styles, moods in an engrossing concert at Wisconsin Lutheran College.
Mar 12th, 2011 by Michael Barndt
Theatrical Tendencies stages Terrence McNally’s take on Jesus
What if Jesus was from Texas and lived in the 1950s? And what if he were gay?
Mar 12th, 2011 by Rosy Ricks
Arts from Africa and everywhere
Five continents will represent in Milwaukee culture this week. Missed Australia, but really -- who needs Antarctica?
Mar 8th, 2011 by Tom Strini
Got those Eroica Black Bottom blues, oh yes
An August Wilson classic, the MSO goes classical, classical guitar at UWM, plus string quartet, accordion, Afro-Caribbean, dinner theater.
Mar 1st, 2011 by Tom Strini
Soprano Vovkova’s US debut in a Milwaukee recital
Familiar arias, with feeling from soprano based in the Czech Republic, with an assist from her baritone husband.
Feb 27th, 2011 by Marianne Kordas
Milwaukee Chamber Orchestra recasts “romantic” music
The MCO transforms romantic music in the emotional expressionism of Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht and the structured elegance of Respighi's Ancient Airs and Dances
Feb 21st, 2011 by Michael Barndt
Bullies bested in comedy at Windfall Theatre
Light comedy addresses a serious subject in "Nurture's Wonders" - a world premiere with many satisfying twists and turns.
Feb 20th, 2011 by Michael Barndt
Milwaukee Chamber Orchestra explores transformation
Schoenberg's Romantic Transfigured Night, Rolf Martinsson's tribute to that work, and Respighi's Romanticized Baroque on Sunday's bill.
Feb 18th, 2011 by Michael Barndt
MPS would lose up to 25% of its funding
MPS School Board President Michael Bonds at Fratney Escuela meeting: school funding to be cut statewide, Federal Title 1 dollars on chopping block.
Feb 16th, 2011 by Patti Wenzel
Jazz piano virtuoso, Adam Makowicz, riffs on Chopin
The Polish Heritage Alliance presents a jazz man once banned in Poland, but now officially honored in his homeland.
Jan 26th, 2011 by Michael Barndt
A big theater weekend, and German music
Youngblood Theatre revives an interrupted hit, Hank Williams at the Rep, Big Business at Next Act and Germans at the MSO.
Jan 18th, 2011 by Tom Strini
