Requiem & Song

Friday, May 20 – Sunday, May 22 at the Bradley Symphony Center, 212 W. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee

Tickets for this performance are no longer available through the website. Tickets are available for walk-up purchase at the Bradley Symphony Center Box Office.

Start Time
  • 7:30p on Friday, May 20
  • 7:30p on Saturday, May 21
  • 2:30p on Sunday, May 22
conductor

Ken-David Masur

Milwaukee Symphony Chorus
director

Cheryl Frazes Hill

mezzo-soprano

Kelley O’Connor

baritone

John Brancy

Takemitsu

Requiem

Canteloube

Chants d’Auvergne

Misato Mochizuki

Musubi II

Duruflé

Requiem

CONCERT DETAILS

Tōru Takemitsu’s all-string Requiem, dedicated to the memory of a fellow composer, was the music that first established the Japanese composer in the western world in the 1950s. Contrast the Requiem with the contemporary voice of another Japanese composer, Misato Mochizuki, and with the French music that influenced Takemitsu — Grammy Award®-winning vocalists Kelley O’Connor and John Brancy lend their voices to Duruflé’s sacred music, as well as to Canteloube, who arranges French folk songs for soprano and orchestra in his Chants (Songs).

Support

Start Time
  • 7:30p on Friday, May 20
  • 7:30p on Saturday, May 21
  • 2:30p on Sunday, May 22
conductor

Ken-David Masur

Milwaukee Symphony Chorus
director

Cheryl Frazes Hill

mezzo-soprano

Kelley O’Connor

baritone

John Brancy

Takemitsu

Requiem

Canteloube

Chants d’Auvergne

Misato Mochizuki

Musubi II

Duruflé

Requiem