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SEPTEMBER 22 + 23

Gershwin!

SEPTEMBER 15-17

Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony CRISTIAN MĂCELARU, conductor BERNSTEIN Candide Overture JAKE HEGGIE Moby-Dick Suite BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7 The Seventh Symphony. Its propulsive power and energy ranks it as one of Beethoven’s greatest achievements. Enduring for almost two centuries. And our Bernstein Centennial Celebration begins with the festive Candide Overture!

JEFFREY KAHANE,

conductor + piano MILHAUD La creation du monde GERSHWIN Piano Concerto in F RACHMANINOFF Symphonic Dances Conducting from the keyboard, Jeffrey Kahane plays Milhaud’s La creation du monde. Then he plays another masterwork of the Jazz Age, Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F. Finally, Kahane takes the podium for a glance back to the Romantic: Rachmaninoff’s late, luxuriant Symphonic Dances.

SEPTEMBER 29 + 30

De Waart Conducts Mozart

EDO DE WAART, conductor KATHERINE YOUNG STEELE, oboe CATHERINE CHEN, bassoon ILANA SETAPEN, violin SUSAN BABINI, cello IVES The Unanswered Question HAYDN Sinfonia Concertante​ MOZART Symphony No. 39 Virtuosos of the Milwaukee Symphony take center stage for Haydn’s brilliant Sinfonia Concertante. And Edo de Waart conducts one of Mozart’s great, final symphonies, Number 39, plus Ives’s haunting The Unanswered Question.

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NOVEMBER 10-12

AT THE BASILICA OF ST. JOSAPHAT NOVEMBER 4 + 5

OCTOBER 13-15

Under the Streetlamp YANIV DINUR, conductor Under the Streetlamp, Chicago’s own cast of “Jersey Boys” keep harmonizing, and audiences keep falling under their spell. Following two top rated PBS specials, “The Boys” come to Milwaukee to join the Orchestra for their survey of American rock and roll. Doo-Wop, Motown, classic rock and more.

Hits of The Drifters, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, and their “Four Seasons” mentors Frankie Valli and Bob Gaudio. “It’s Just Too Good to be True”!

Bach in the Basilica YANIV DINUR, conductor MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY CHORUS BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 BACH Magnificat This is the glory of the Baroque.

The glory of Johann Sebastian Bach — at the Basilica of St. Josaphat. Two of the immortal Brandenburg Concertos, and the radiant Magnificat.

Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony KARINA CANELLAKIS, conductor JENNIFER KOH, violin NICO MUHLY Mixed Messages SZYMANOWSKI Violin Concerto No. 2 TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5 ”It will never please the public,” said Tchaikovsky of his Fifth Symphony. Yet its beautiful melodies have captivated for over a century. Dynamic young conductor Karina Canellakis leads Tchaikovsky’s passionate Fifth.

And the phenomenal Jennifer Koh plays the colorful Violin Concerto of Polish master Karol Szymanowski.

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NOVEMBER 17 + 18

DECEMBER 1-3

Brahms & Bernstein

Holiday Pops ANDREAS DELFS, conductor MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY CHORUS MILWAUKEE HANDBELL ENSEMBLE

MICHAEL FRANCIS, conductor JOYCE YANG, piano BERNSTEIN Symphony No. 2, The Age of Anxiety BRAHMS Symphony No. 1 The Milwaukee Symphony performs the music of Johannes Brahms under acclaimed guest conductor Michael Francis. The strong, mighty Symphony No. 1.

And Joyce Yang returns for Leonard Bernstein’s breathtaking Second Symphony, capturing the anxiety of its era in music, that veers between symphony and concerto.

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NOVEMBER 29

Canadian Brass Holiday CANADIAN BRASS MSO BRASS Deck the halls — with Holiday Brass! Canadian Brass joins Milwaukee Symphony brass for a holiday celebration. Favorite carols, holiday hits, and more.

All with the verve and virtuosity of Canadian Brass.

Season after season, this is Milwaukee’s holiday tradition. A sparkling holiday celebration with carols, sing-alongs and more, with the Milwaukee Symphony Pops under Andreas Delfs. And jolly old Saint Nick is the special guest!

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JANUARY 12 + 13

Chorus E.T., The ExtraFan Package FILM WITH ORCHESTRA

Terrestrial

EDO DE WAART, conductor PHILIPPE QUINT, violin MATTHEW ERNST, trumpet MARGARET BUTLER, English horn

YANIV DINUR, conductor

COPLAND Quiet City

The movie classic — Steven Spielberg’s beloved E.T., The Extra-Terrestrial. With John Williams’s magical music performed live by the Milwaukee Symphony, as the film is projected on a giant screen. Perfect for the holidays, introduce the next generation to E.T.! ​

BERNSTEIN Serenade after Plato’s Symposium

DECEMBER 30 + 31

BACH IN THE BASILICA NOV 4 + 5 HOLIDAY POPS DEC 1–3 ANDREAS DELFS RETURNS! FEB 16 + 17 BECOME OCEAN APR 7 + 8

Edo de Waart Conducts American Masters

JOHN ADAMS Harmonielehre Edo de Waart explores the music of America. From Aaron Copland’s haunting Quiet City, to Bernstein’s lively Serenade after Plato’s Symposium. The concert concludes with a de Waart specialty, John Adams’s Harmonielehre, premiered under his baton in 1985.

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JANUARY 20 + 21

American Classics

TEDDY ABRAMS, conductor SUSANNA PHILLIPS, soprano BERNSTEIN Divertimento​ PERRY Study for Orchestra BARBER Knoxville: Summer of 1915 COPLAND Symphony No. 3 Aaron Copland’s stirring Third Symphony draws its majestic finale from his iconic Fanfare for the Common Man. Samuel Barber’s nostalgic setting of James Agee’s prose touches the heart. And Leonard Bernstein’s Divertimento is a youthful romp. American Classics as only the Milwaukee Symphony can play them!

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JANUARY 26 + 27

Beethoven Emperor Concerto FABIEN GABEL, conductor LOUIS SCHWIZGEBEL, piano BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major, “Emperor” BERNSTEIN Fancy Free​ SCHMITT Rêves RAVEL La Valse ​​ “His musicianship has special depth and imagination,” raves the Saint Louis Post-Dispatch of Louis Schwizgebel. See this dynamic young artist perform Beethoven’s regal “Emperor” Piano Concerto.

The concert comes to a shattering conclusion with Ravel’s mesmerizing La Valse.

FEBRUARY 2 + 3

Beethoven’s Second Symphony BEN GERNON, conductor AUGUSTIN HADELICH, violin STRAUSS Don Juan LIGETI Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 2 Be there to experience the full sonic power of the Milwaukee Symphony in Strauss’s blazing Don Juan and Beethoven’s groundbreaking Second Symphony. Augustin Hadelich returns for Gyorgy Ligeti’s poignant, folk-inspired Violin Concerto.

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FEBRUARY 16 + 17

FEBRUARY 9-11

My Fair Lady YANIV DINUR, conductor

Beethoven

Fan Package SEVENTH SYMPHONY SEP 15 –17 EMPEROR CONCERTO JAN 26 + 27 SECOND SYMPHONY FEB 2 + 3 NINTH SYMPHONY JUN 15 –17

The elegance and enchantment of Lerner and Loewe’s My Fair Lady. The classic Broadway hit, performed live in concert setting with Broadway singers in period costumes and a lush symphonic score. “I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face,” “I Could Have Danced All Night,” “On the Street Where You Live.” Every showstopper!

Won’t it be loverly?

Andreas Delfs Returns ANDREAS DELFS, conductor FRANK ALMOND, violin MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY CHORUS MENDELSSOHN A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Overture, Nocturne, and Scherzo PIERRE JALBERT Violin Concerto VAUGHAN WILLIAMS A Sea Symphony “If music be the food of love, play on …” Andreas Delfs returns to lead magical music of Mendelssohn, excerpts inspired

by Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Concertmaster Frank Almond performs the new Violin Concerto of Pierre Jalbert.

And the concerts conclude with Vaughan Williams’s soaring A Sea Symphony.

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MARCH 9 + 10

MARCH 2-4

Symphonie Fantastique!

JOSHUA WEILERSTEIN, conductor KAREN GOMYO, violin CHRISTOPHER ROUSE Bump​ PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No. 1 BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique A spectacular showpiece! A fantastic symphony. Experience the mesmerizing vision of Hector Berlioz. Guest conductor Joshua Weilerstein leads the Symphonie fantastique, Berlioz’s vivid masterpiece. Plus, Karen Gomyo returns for Prokofiev’s searing First Violin Concerto. “A first-rate artist of real musical command… tremendous vitality, brilliance and intensity,” raves the Chicago Tribune.

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MARCH 23-25

Prokofiev Triumphant

Great Balls of Fire!

YANIV DINUR, conductor DREW PETERSEN, piano

YANIV DINUR, conductor TONY DESARE, piano + vocals

EMILY COOLEY Green Go to Me

Ray Charles. Billy Joel. Elton John.

Jerry Lee Lewis. The keyboardcrashing songs that have energized generations. Nine decades. Twenty hits. And 88 keys!

Tony DeSare plays and sings every note.

TBD Piano Concerto PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 5 ​​ Russia emerged from its As darkest hours of the war, Prokofiev’s triumphant Fifth Symphony symbolized a turning point in the spirit of his people.

With the composer on the podium, the first performance in 1945 occurred just moments after Red Army soldiers crossed the River Vistula and entered Nazi Germany in triumph. Also, see the young winner of the American Pianists Association Competition.

APRIL 21 + 22

AT THE BASILICA OF ST. JOSAPHAT APRIL 7 + 8

Become Ocean YANIV DINUR, conductor MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY CHORUS JOHN LUTHER ADAMS Become Ocean John Luther Adams’s Become Ocean has won a Pulitzer Prize and mesmerized audiences. “Like the sea at dawn, it presents a gorgeous surface, yet its heaving motion conveys overwhelming force…tonally centered, almost to the point of lushness,” wrote Alex Ross in The New Yorker. “Its three huge crescendos suggest a tidal surge washing over all barriers. It may be the loveliest apocalypse in musical history ... Whether orchestras will be playing it a century hence is impossible to say, but I went away reeling.”

Asher Fisch Conducts Mahler ASHER FISCH, conductor BELLA HRISTOVA, violin MICHELLE DEYOUNG,

mezzo soprano STUART SKELTON, tenor FOSS Three American Pieces BRITTEN Four Sea Interludes MAHLER The Song of the Earth ​​ Guest conductor Asher Fisch leads Mahler’s serene The Song of the Earth, drawn from delicate lines of Chinese poetry. Knowing he had but little time, Mahler composed this radiantly serene cycle of songs, the first of his great farewells. Music as life giving, life sustaining, and life loving as the Earth itself.

APRIL 27 + 28

Dvorák’s “New World” Symphony v

HANS GRAF, conductor TRULS MØRK, cello BARBER Medea’s Meditation and Dance of Vengeance PROKOFIEV Sinfonia concertante DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 9, “From the New World” This is music that captures the energy, the exuberance, the promise of a great nation. Hear guest conductor Hans Graf conduct one of the most beloved symphonies in the entire repertoire, Dvořák’s American valentine, the “New World” Symphony. Also, cellist Truls Mørk performs Prokofiev’s SymphonyConcerto, composed for Rostropovich.

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MAY 19 + 20

Sensuous Ravel KEN-DAVID MASUR, conductor TODD LEVY, clarinet ROBERT LEVINE, viola MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY CHORUS AUGUSTA READ THOMAS Radiant Circles COPLAND Clarinet Concerto VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Flos Campi RAVEL Daphnis et Chloé: Suite No. 2 Once seduced by Ravel’s intoxicating Daphnis et Chloé, Igor Stravinsky declared it “one of the most beautiful products of all French music.” Ken-David Masur leads a rare performance of the sensuous Second Suite, an undisputed masterpiece from early in the last century. Plus, Vaughan Williams’s tender Flos Campi, and American works

by Augusta Read Thomas and Aaron Copland.

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MAY 25-27

Patriotic Pops STUART CHAFETZ, conductor CAPATHIA JENKINS, vocalist ​​ freedom ring! Celebrate Let America with Stuart Chafetz and the Milwaukee Symphony. Stirring Sousa spectaculars, favorite toe-tappers, and inspiring anthems. Broadway’s Capathia Jenkins returns to the Pops to perform your favorite red, white and blue melodies.

FILM WITH ORCHESTRA JUNE 9 + 10

West Side Story WILLIAM EDDINS, conductor The music of West Side Story, live in concert. The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra accompanies the Oscar-winning motion picture — performing every note of Leonard Bernstein’s romantic, rumble-filled score!

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JUNE 15-17

Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony JUN MÄRKL, conductor MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY CHORUS

Americana

Fan Package GERSHWIN! SEP 22 + 23 AMERICAN CLASSICS JAN 20 + 21 PATRIOTIC POPS MAY 25 – 27 WEST SIDE STORY Film with Orchestra JUN 9 + 10

JUNE 22-24

BERNSTEIN Chichester Psalms

Great American Songbook

BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9, “Choral”

JEFF TYZIK, conductor ASHLEY BROWN, vocalist

A not-to-be-missed concert experience. Hear, live in concert, the epic, timeless message of humanity and brotherhood as guest conductor Jun Märkl leads the Milwaukee Symphony, Chorus, and soloists in Beethoven’s inspiring Ode to Joy. And our season-long Bernstein Centennial celebration concludes with the moving Chichester Psalms.

Her silver voice floated over Broadway as Mary Poppins. Now, Ashley Brown joins the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and Jeff Tyzik for great American song.

Irving Berlin. Jerome Kern. Cole Porter. George Gershwin. Richard Rodgers. The names that built the Great American Songbook.

The music that made memories.

JOAN TOWER Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman

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Milhaud La creation du monde | Gershwin Piano Concerto in F Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances

Gershwin!

Bernstein Symphony No. 2, The Age of Anxiety Brahms Symphony No. 1

Bernstein & Brahms

Bernstein Divertimento | Perry Study for Orchestra Barber Knoxville: Summer of 1915 | Copland Symphony No. 3

American Classics

Ben Gernon, conductor | Augustin Hadelich, violin

Beethoven’s Second Symphony

Fabien Gabel, conductor | Louis Schwizgebel, piano

Beethoven Emperor Concerto

Teddy Abrams, conductor | Susanna Phillips, soprano

Strauss Don Juan | Ligeti Violin Concerto Beethoven Symphony No. 2

Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5, “Emperor” Bernstein Fancy Free | Schmitt Rêves | Ravel La Valse

Copland Quiet City Bernstein Serenade after Plato’s Symposium John Adams Harmonielehre

Edo de Waart, conductor | Philippe Quint, violin Matthew Ernst, trumpet | Margaret Butler, English horn

Edo de Waart Conducts American Masters

Yaniv Dinur, conductor

E.T., The Extra-Terrestrial

FILM WITH ORCHESTRA

Andreas Delfs, conductor Milwaukee Symphony Chorus | Milwaukee Handbell Ensemble

Holiday Pops

Canadian Brass | Milwaukee Symphony Brass

Canadian Brass Holiday

Michael Francis, conductor | Joyce Yang, piano

Karina Canellakis, conductor Jennifer Koh, violin

Nico Muhly Mixed Messages Szymanowski Violin Concerto No. 2 Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5

Bach Brandenberg Concerto No. 1 Bach Brandenberg Concerto No. 3 Bach Magnificat

Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony

Yaniv Dinur, conductor | Milwaukee Symphony Chorus

Bach in the Basilica

AT THE BASILICA

Yaniv Dinur, conductor

Under the Streetlamp

Edo de Waart, conductor | Katherine Young Steele, oboe Catherine Chen, bassoon | Ilana Setapen, violin | Susan Babini, cello

De Waart Conducts Mozart

Jeffrey Kahane, conductor + piano Ives The Unanswered Question Haydn Sinfonia Concertante Mozart Symphony No. 39

Bernstein Candide Overture | Jake Heggie Moby-Dick Suite Beethoven Symphony No. 7

Cristian Măcelaru, conductor

Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony

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Jeff Tyzik, conductor | Ashley Brown, vocalist

Great American Songbook

POPS SEASON FINALE

Jun Märkl, conductor | Milwaukee Symphony Chorus

Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony

CLASSICS SEASON FINALE

William Eddins, conductor

West Side Story

FILM WITH ORCHESTRA

Stuart Chafetz, conductor | Capathia Jenkins, vocalist

Patriotic Pops

Ken-David Masur, conductor Todd Levy, clarinet | Robert Levine, viola Milwaukee Symphony Chorus

Joan Tower Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman Bernstein Chichester Psalms Beethoven Symphony No. 9 “Choral”

Bernstein West Side Story

Augusta Read Thomas Radiant Circles Copland Clarinet Concerto Vaughan Williams Flos Campi Ravel Daphnis et Chloé: Suite No. 2

Sensuous Ravel

Hans Graf, conductor Truls Mørk, cello

Barber Medea’s Meditation and Dance of Vengeance Prokofiev Sinfonia concertante Dvořák Symphony No. 9, “From the New World”

Foss Three American Pieces Britten Four Sea Interludes Mahler The Song of the Earth

John Luther Adams Become Ocean

Emily Cooley Green Go to Me TBD Piano Concerto Prokofiev Symphony No. 5

Christopher Rouse Bump | Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 1 Berlioz Symphonie fantastique

Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Overture, Nocturne, and Scherzo Pierre Jalbert Violin Concerto Vaughan Williams A Sea Symphony

Dvorák’s “New World” Symphony

Asher Fisch, conductor | Bella Hristova, violin Michelle DeYoung, mezzo soprano | Stuart Skelton, tenor

Asher Fisch Conducts Mahler

Yaniv Dinur, conductor | Milwaukee Symphony Chorus

Become Ocean

AT THE BASILICA

Yaniv Dinur, conductor | Tony DeSare, piano + vocals

Great Balls of Fire!

Yaniv Dinur, conductor Drew Petersen, piano

Prokofiev Triumphant

Joshua Weilerstein, conductor | Karen Gomyo, violin

Symphonie Fantastique!

Andreas Delfs, conductor Frank Almond, violin | Milwaukee Symphony Chorus

Andreas Delfs Returns!

Yaniv Dinur, conductor

My Fair Lady

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