Name: Convergence
Start: 2024-10-10T19:30:00
Location: Capitol Theatre

Patrice Rushen

Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra

We kick off our 2026/27 Masterworks season with a program bold and full of personality, as pianist John Novacek returns to play Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G. He will also perform Michael Daugherty’s Le Tombeau de Liberace, a virtuosic, tongue-in-cheek tribute to showmanship. The evening closes with Strauss’s Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, music brimming with wit and color inspired by Molière’s classic comedy. Join us for an evening of music that’s inviting, vibrant, and meant to be shared with friends.

Ravel Revelry

Overture Center for the Arts

Get ready for an epic night as the WCO dives into year two of our five-year project Musical Landscapes in Color with Convergence. Performed live and recorded for a spring album release, it celebrates the converging of contemporary voices of color by generation, gender, and style of composition. We begin with Fanfare and Fantasie by four-time Grammy nominee Patrice Rushen, followed by Umoja by renowned composer and flutist Valerie Coleman. The next piece Changes, by contemporary composer Andre Myers, reflects the ever-shifting landscape of the world we live in, and for the finale, movements from the Nope film suite by the prolific Michael Abels, a Grammy and Emmy nominee, and the recipient of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Music.