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Season Opener: A Hero’s Life
Saturday, September 13 – Sunday, September 14
Ken-David Masur, conductor
Stewart Goodyear, piano
Andrea Tarrodi
Festouvertyr
Ravel
Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
Strauss
Ein Heldenleben
Disco Divas
Friday, September 26 – Sunday, September 28
Byron Stripling, conductor
Shayna Steele, vocalist
Kelly LeVesque, vocalist
Crystal Monee Hall, vocalist
Ode to Joy: Beethoven’s Ninth
Friday, October 3 – Sunday, October 5
Ken-David Masur, conductor
Milwaukee Symphony Chorus
Cheryl Frazes Hill, chorus director
Beethoven
Symphony No. 9
Dvořák’s Seventh Symphony
Friday, October 10 – Saturday, October 11
Eric Jacobsen, conductor
Robyn Black, tuba
Tchaikovsky
Serenade for Strings
Vaughan Williams
Tuba Concerto
Dvořák
Symphony No. 7
Mendelssohn’s Reformation
Friday, October 17 – Saturday, October 18
Ken-David Masur, conductor
Orion Weiss, piano
Brahms
Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn
Dohnányi
Variations on a Nursery Tune
Mendelssohn
Symphony No. 5, “Reformation”
Paul Lewis Plays Grieg
Friday, November 14 – Saturday, November 15
Rune Bergmann, conductor
Paul Lewis, piano
Rautavaara
Cantus Arcticus
Grieg
Piano Concerto
Nielsen
Symphony No. 4, “The Inextinguishable”
Handel's Messiah
Friday, November 21 – Sunday, November 23
Nicholas McGegan, conductor
Sherazade Panthaki, soprano
Key’mon Murrah, countertenor
Thomas Cooley, tenor
Enrico Lagasca, bass-baritone
Handel
Messiah
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York In Concert
Friday, November 28 – Sunday, November 30
TBD, conductor
Holiday Pops
Saturday, December 13 – Sunday, December 21
Ryan Tani, conductor
Milwaukee Symphony Chorus
Cheryl Frazes Hill, chorus director
Milwaukee Handbell Ensemble
Jana Larson, director
Beethoven & Haydn
Friday, January 23 – Saturday, January 24
Bernard Labadie, conductor
Kerson Leong, violin
Haydn
Symphony No. 103, “Drumroll”
Beethoven
Violin Concerto
Zeitouni Conducts Mozart
Saturday, January 31 – Sunday, February 1
Jean-Marie Zeitouni, conductor
Stephen Hough, piano
Ligeti
Concert Românesc
Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 21
Mozart
Symphony No. 38, “Prague”
Kodály
Dances of Galánta
Saint-Saëns “Organ” Symphony
Friday, February 6 – Saturday, February 7
Ken-David Masur, conductor
Paul Jacobs, organ
Beethoven
Leonore Overture No. 3
Edmund Finnis
The Landscape Wakes (World Premiere)
Barber
Toccata Festiva
Saint-Saëns
Symphony No. 3, “Organ”
A Simply Swingin' Valentine
Friday, February 13 – Sunday, February 15
Steve Lippia, vocalist
Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty
Friday, February 20 – Saturday, February 21
Alpesh Chauhan, conductor
Johannes Moser, cello
Anna Thorvaldsdottir
Before we fall (Cello Concerto)
Tchaikovsky
Selections from Sleeping Beauty
Joyce Yang Plays Tchaikovsky
Friday, February 27 – Sunday, March 1
Ryan Tani, conductor
Joyce Yang, piano
Anna Clyne
Color Field
Sibelius
Symphony No. 6
Tchaikovsky
Piano Concerto No. 1
Hadelich & Brahms
Friday, March 6 – Saturday, March 7
Ken-David Masur, conductor
Augustin Hadelich, violin
Detlev Glanert
Vexierbild. Kontrafaktur mit Brahms
Brahms
Symphony No. 3
Brahms
Violin Concerto
Bach's St. Matthew Passion
Friday, March 20 – Saturday, March 21
Ken-David Masur, conductor
Milwaukee Symphony Chorus
Cheryl Frazes Hill, chorus director
Patrick Grahl, tenor
Bach
St. Matthew Passion
Decades: Back to the 80s
Friday, March 27 – Sunday, March 29
Byron Stripling, conductor
Brie Cassil, vocalist
Paul Loren, vocalist
Colin Smith, vocalist
Wincor Conducts Shostakovich No. 1
Friday, April 10 – Saturday, April 11
Katharina Wincor, conductor
David Fray, piano
Webern
Passacaglia
Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 9, “Jeunehomme”
Shostakovich
Symphony No. 1
Schumann Romance
Friday, April 17 – Saturday, April 18
Ken-David Masur, conductor
Nancy Zhou, violin
Gabriela Ortiz
Clara
Clara Schumann
Three Romances
Joachim
Variations for Violin and Orchestra
Schumann
Symphony No. 2
Fandango & Rapsodie
Saturday, April 25 – Sunday, April 26
Asher Fisch, conductor
Ilana Setapen, violin
Ravel
Alborado del gracioso
Arturo Márquez
Fandango
Ravel
Rapsodie espangole
Turina
Danzas fantásticas
Copland & Twain: America 250
Friday, May 8 – Sunday, May 10
Ken-David Masur, conductor
Bill Barclay, director; Concert Theatre Works
Copland
Music for Movies
Copland
Music for the Theatre
America the Beautiful: Patriotic Pops
Friday, May 22 – Sunday, May 24
Byron Stripling, conductor
Sydney McSweeney, vocalist
Stravinsky’s Firebird
Friday, May 29 – Saturday, May 30
Jader Bignamini, conductor
Giuseppe Gibboni, violin
Wynton Marsalis
Violin Concerto
Rimsky-Korsakov
Capriccio espagnol
Stravinsky
Suite from The Firebird (1919)
Rachmaninoff & Saint-Saëns
Friday, June 5 – Saturday, June 6
Iván López Reynoso, conductor
Jinwoo Lee, violin
Saint-Saëns
Violin Concerto No. 3
Rachmaninoff
Symphony No. 2
Masur Conducts Missa Solemnis
Saturday, June 13 – Sunday, June 14
Ken-David Masur, conductor
Milwaukee Symphony Chorus
Cheryl Frazes Hill, chorus director
Beethoven
Missa solemnis