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Sanders was the last active member of the legendary Frank Miller-helmed CSO cello section.
We conclude the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra broadcast season in triumphant fashion, with an excerpt from Britten’s Peter Grimes and Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony.
Seminal orchestral works by Johannes Brahms, Richard Strauss, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart make up this performance led by music director laureate Edo de Waart.
Music director Ken-David Masur welcomes the Aaron Diehl Trio for Mary-Lou Williams’s Zodiac Suite before conducting the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and the Milwuakee Symphony Women’s Chorus in Holst’s seminal The Planets.
Roderick Cox conducts the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and pianist Inon Barnatan in music by Richard Strauss, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Jean Sibelius.
Star pianist Stephen Hough takes the stage to perform Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto.
Music director Ken-David Masur leads water-inspired music by Smetana, Hailstork, Takemitsu, Debussy, and David Ludwig.
Tension, energy, and triumph abound in Beethoven’s history-changing Eroica Symphony. In contrast, Sebastian Currier’s delicate and mesmerizing Aether evokes “the air the gods breathe.”
In an ode to the wonder of our natural world, this program ponders fate, resolve, and reverence.
Violinist James Ehnes takes center stage in a performance of Prokofiev’s Second Violin Concerto. Music by Jessie Montgomery, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky rounds out the performance.
A preview of the upcoming season with music director Ken-David Masur and the orchestra’s new artistic partner, bass-baritone Dashon Burton.
Ken-David Masur — music director of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and principal conductor of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago — takes the Millennium Park stage.
One of Chicago’s most notable and dynamic ensembles has announced its upcoming season.
It’s been a strange, difficult year for the music world, which is all the more reason to celebrate musical excellence.
The 2010s were a tumultuous decade, replete with astounding artistic highlights, superlative new voices, and watershed moments of reckoning. WFMT hosts and staff reflect on what the past decade brought for classical music, and what the new decade may have in store.
For Ken-David Masur, artistry is just one aspect of a successful career in classical music; community engagement and outreach are of equal importance in building both a thriving artist and a flourishing orchestra.
It’s just a fact: road trips are better when live music is the destination!
As the WFMT Radio Network’s series from the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival returns, we asked participants what makes this location so enchanting.