Oscar-winning composer John Williams’s music has been a staple of cinema for decades, capturing all the excitement and emotion to truly elevate the audience movie-going experience. Music Director Ken-David Masur explores the many monumental works of his mentor and friend John Williams, in a celebration of iconic film scores that continue to touch the lives of generations.

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Movie Music Of John Williams

Warner Grand Theater

Revel in the music of myth, magic, and marvel! Grammy-winning ensemble Third Coast Percussion and Music Director Ken-David Masur take the stage for Tōru Takemitsu’s visually captivating From Me Flows What You Call Time, which calls for unusual bells suspended from the ceiling and played using long, colorful ribbons. Debussy’s Nocturnes evoke the hazy motions of clouds, the dancing rhythms of festivals, and the mysterious songs of the Sirens through a trio of tone poems. Bookending this captivating concert is music by Dukas, opening with the brass choir fanfare from his ballet about a mischievous mythological spirit, and ending with his enchanting and familiar frolic The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.

Takemitsu & The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

Dvořák’s Ninth Symphony, “From the New World,”blends the traditional folk sounds of the composer’s Czech homeland with melodic influences discovered in African American and Native American music – tunes Dvořák first heard in his “new world,” the United States. Conductor Joseph Young makes his MSO debut in this dynamic program. Barber’s Violin Concerto, now an audience favorite, was once considered too difficult to be played; violinist Alexi Kenney wields “his architect’s eye for structure and space and a tone that ranges from the achingly fragile to full-bodied robustness” (The New York Times).

Dvořák’s New World Symphony

For nearly two decades, Brown County Civic Music has capped its annual classical-music subscription series with a visit by the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. Led by Music Director Ken-David Masur, the MSO is among the finest orchestras in the nation. The full-time professional musicians perform more than 135 classics, pops, family, education, and community concerts each season in venues throughout the state.

Mso In Green Bay

Sensory friendly concerts are designed for people of any age on the autism spectrum or with a sensory sensitivity and their families, but all are welcome! Concert modifications include dimmed house lights remaining on during the performance, flexible seating, relaxed house rules, on-stage hosts, available sensory kits, noise reduction headphones, quiet areas, concert social narratives, and more. Patrons are encouraged to come early and enjoy an hour of special pre-concert activities.

Orchestra Family Reunion!

Lynn Chappy Salon Series events feature an evening of outstanding music, lively conversation, and a cocktail bar. Mingle with performers and other symphony patrons as musicians and guest artists perform their personal favorites in private residences. Afterwards, learn about the artist’s musical process over cocktails and conversation.



Salon With Alex Ayers And Paul Hauer

Enrico Lopez-Yañez, principal pops conductor of the Nashville Symphony, leads this passion-filled, energetic celebration of Latin American orchestral hits paired with the firework playing of highly acclaimed Costa Rican trumpeter Jose Sibaja and vocalist Mónica Abrego. In addition to being the lead trumpet of the Boston Brass, Sibaja has recorded with such artists as Ricky Martin, Gloria Estefan, and Celia Cruz, and has performed on television at the MTV awards, Grammy Awards, Saturday Night Live, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and Late Night with David Letterman, among many others. This high-octane concert is sure to make you dance and sing along!

Latin Fire

Composer Carl Orff based Carmina Burana on two dozen poems – but far from odes of love, these verses deal in lust, gambling, drinking, and the fickle hand of fate (“O Fortuna!”). Music Director Ken-David Masur joins Artistic Partner Dashon Burton and the Milwaukee Symphony Chorus as they lend their voices to this bawdy cantata. Pairing well with Orff’s epic is Carlos Simon’s Fate Now Conquers, which refers to a notebook entry written by Beethoven and explores “the unpredictable ways of fate.” Between these, the MSO showcases its own Principal Trombone Megumi Kanda in Tan Dun’s Three Muses in Video Game, a daring and spiritual concerto which challenges the trombonist to evoke three ancient Chinese musical instruments.

Carmina Burana & Fate Now Conquers

The MSO holds nothing back in its epic season finale. Augustin Hadelich – indisputably one of the greatest violinists of today – joins Music Director Ken-David Masur and the MSO for Tchaikovsky’s timeless Violin Concerto. Sibelius’s final symphony packs all of its sublime majesty into a single astonishing movement that seems to bend time to its will. This grand finale opens with a masterpiece by Ukrainian composer Borys Lyatoshynsky; his symphonic poem Grazyhna follows a brave heroine into battle and never rests until she tastes victory.

Hadelich Plays Tchaikovsky

The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra presents Toy Story in Concert featuring a screening of the timeless classic film, Toy Story, accompanied by Oscar® and Grammy®-winning composer Randy Newman’s beloved musical score performed live to the film.

Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra

3 - 5 May, 2024

Movie Music Of John Williams

7 - 8 May, 2024

Takemitsu & The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

10 - 11 May, 2024

Dvořák’s New World Symphony

May 12, 2024

Mso In Green Bay

May 19, 2024

Orchestra Family Reunion!

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