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Season Opener: A Hero’s Life

Name: Season Opener: A Hero’s Life
Start: 2025-09-14T14:30:00
Location: Warner Grand Theater

Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra

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Music Director Ken-David Masur opens his phenomenal final season with a festive fanfare by Andrea Tarrodi. The celebration continues as the MSO raises a ruckus with R. Strauss’s tone poem Ein Heldenleben (“A Hero’s Life”), rife with, in the composer’s words, “lots of horns, horns being quite the thing to express heroism.” Ravel was determined not to make his Piano Concerto for the Left Hand feel like a thin parlor trick; its music is robust, dema...

Program

Richard Strauss - Ein Heldenleben

Andrea Tarrodi - Festouvertyr

Maurice Ravel - Piano Concerto for the Left Hand

Composer

Participants

Stewart Goodyear

Piano

Ken-David Masur

Conductor

Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra

Producer