Copland’s Appalachian Spring

MEET THE MUSIC Please join us at the Bradley Symphony Center one hour before the concert for a free Meet the Music pre-concert talk. Enjoy an engaging, informative look at the works you’ll experience live at the performance. Food & Beverage Service Resonance Food Co. offers a variety of choices, prepared on-site by our full-time … Continued

Scheherazade

MEET THE MUSIC Please join us at the Bradley Symphony Center one hour before the concert for a free Meet the Music pre-concert talk. Enjoy an engaging, informative look at the works you’ll experience live at the performance. Food & Beverage Service Resonance Food Co. offers a variety of choices, prepared on-site by our full-time … Continued

Mendelssohn’s Third Symphony

MEET THE MUSIC Please join us at the Bradley Symphony Center one hour before the concert for a free Meet the Music pre-concert talk. Enjoy an engaging, informative look at the works you’ll experience live at the performance. PRELUDE SHUTTLE BUS Make your day even more enjoyable by adding transportation to make your trip downtown easy and carefree. … Continued

Bach Celebration

Bach Fest Pre-Concert performance Join us in Ellen & Joe Checota Atrium from 6:45-7:15 p.m. for a special pre-concert performance featuring the Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra Bach Ensemble. Food & Beverage Service Resonance Food Co. offers a variety of choices, prepared on-site by our full-time chefs. Beginning 90 minutes before each performance, enjoy tasty treats … Continued

Bernstein & Bartók

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Bernstein & Bartók

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Scheherazade

Rachmaninoff, a virtuoso pianist himself, held nothing back when composing for his instrument; Simon Trpčeski is ideally suited for the challenge of Rachmaninoff’s demanding yet romantic First Piano Concerto. In mythology, Orpheus crossed paths with the god of bees — composer Dobrinka Tabakova wove their buzzing sounds into her dramatic Orpheus’ Comet, which also includes … Continued

Ingrid Fliter Plays Mozart

“[Ingrid] Fliter plays with such grace and heartfelt sincerity… by whatever magical means, [she] touches the heart,” claims Gramophone; Fliter joins the MSO for Mozart’s smiling Piano Concerto No. 17. This heartfelt program continues with music from Prokofiev’s ballet Romeo and Juliet, complete with a masquerade ball, declarations of love, and a tragic ending for … Continued

Reinhardt Conducts Beethoven

Ruth Reinhardt, “an elegant, versatile and committed conductor in the search for expressive colors” (Scherzo), helms this program, which includes Haydn’s Symphony No. 80 —too often overlooked, this turbulent music turns storms to sunlight. The winds sparkle in Hindemith’s enduring Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber; this music was originally sketched as … Continued

McGegan Conducts Haydn

“One of the finest Baroque conductors of his generation” (The Independent), Nicholas McGegan returns to the MSO to conduct music by two Haydns, beginning with younger brother Michael Haydn’s incidental music from Voltaire’s play Zaïre. Later, Joseph Haydn’s exhilarating “Military” Symphony lives up to its name with percussive power, trumpet fanfare, and what one reviewer … Continued