2023.24 Concerts for Schools Brochure

YOUTH SERIES

Designed for grades 3 through 8, the acclaimed MSO Youth Series uses orchestral masterworks to inspire students, promote active listening, and encourage critical thinking. These concerts align with state and national standards for music education, as well as connect to multiple subjects and disciplines.

Symphony in Space!

OCTOBER 25, 26, & 31, 2023 | 10:15 am* & 12:00 pm

Bradley Symphony Center

* Note NEW concert time!

Repertoire to include:

Richard Strauss: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Gustav Holst: “Mars” from The Planets

Gustav Holst: “Jupiter” from The Planets

John Williams: Main Theme from Star Wars

Join the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra in a galaxy far, far away as we explore music inspired by the mysteries of the universe. Movements from Gustav Holst’s masterwork The Planets will be complemented by John Williams’s iconic Main Theme from Star Wars and much more. The sun, moon, stars, and planets will align in this celestial symphonic celebration!

This concert will feature the 2023 Audrey G. Baird Stars of Tomorrow Competition winner.

Milwaukee Art Museum

Make the most of your Youth Series field trip day. Add a Milwaukee Art Museum tour to complement these performance series. Separate fees apply. Call 414.224.3842 for information and to schedule your tour. Please note tours for Symphony in Space will only be available on October 25 & 26.

American Journeys

FEBRUARY 14 - 15 , 2024 | 10:15 am* & 12:00 pm

Bradley Symphony Center

* Note NEW concert time!

Repertoire to include:

Aaron Copland: “Buckaroo Holiday” from Rodeo

Arturo Marquéz: Danzón No. 2

Florence Price: “Juba Dance” from Symphony No. 1

Leonard Bernstein: “Times Square” from On the Town

Composers have always been inspired by the places that they love. Join the MSO for a musical journey across North America with some of the most beloved composers of the New World and the 20th century. We’ll stop in New York, Mexico, down South, and out West and celebrate the diversity of our landscapes and our people.

This concert will feature the 2023 Wisconsin Youth Piano Competition winner.

LINK UP

Link Up: The Orchestra Sings

MARCH 13 - 14, 2024 | 10:15 am* & 12:00 pm

Bradley Symphony Center

* Note NEW concert time!

Repertoire to include:

Thomas Cabaniss: Come to Play

Ludwig van Beethoven: “Ode to Joy” from Symphony No. 9 in D minor

Antonín Dvořák: Largo from Symphony No. 9 in E minor, “New World”

Reena Esmail: “Ram Tori Maya”

Igor Stravinsky: Finale from The Firebird Suite

Traditional arr. Joachim: “We Shall Not Be Moved”

Jim Papoulis: “Oye”

The Milwaukee Symphony partners with Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute to bring the Link Up program to our community. Link Up pairs orchestras across the country with students in grades 3-5 at schools in their local communities to explore orchestral repertoire through a year-long, hands-on music curriculum. Composers and musicians create melodies, which can be sung or played on instruments. When an orchestra plays these melodies, the orchestra sings! Students explore melody in a range of colorful orchestral repertoire. Students will sing, play the recorder or violin, and perform in this culminating concert!

MAM tours not available for Link Up.

MUSIC FOR ME!

A special program that is “just right” for the MSO’s youngest listeners. Designed for students in grades K4 through 2, these 40 minute programs make connections with the following fields of study: Music, Social Studies, and ELA.

Musical Opposites

MAY 7 & 21 , 2024 | 10:00 am & 11:45 am*

Bradley Symphony Center

* Note NEW concert time!

Danceworks, Inc.

Narrator, TBD

Repertoire to include:

Jacques Offenbach: “Can-Can” from Orpheus in the Underworld

Sergei Prokofiev: “Montagues and Capulets” from Romeo and Juliet

Ludwig van Beethoven: “Allegretto” from Symphony No. 7

Michael Djupstrom: The Seahorse and the Crab

With so many instruments and musicians in the Milwaukee Symphony, the orchestra can create an array of different sounds. Whether high or low, fast or slow, loud or quiet, contrasts in music rouse the imagination and pique the listeners’ interest. Special guests from Danceworks, Inc. will help the audience visualize and internalize these concepts. To finish, hear how opposites help to tell Djupstrom’s The Seahorse and the Crab, an underwater adaptation of The Tortoise and the Hare

Milwaukee Art Museum

Make the most of your Music for Me! field trip day. Add a Milwaukee Art Museum tour to complement these performances. Separate fees apply. Call 414.224.3842 for information and to schedule your tour.

TEEN CONCERT

The Teen Choral Partners project returns! This season, we are delighted to announce that MSO Artistic Partner Dashon Burton, bass-baritone, will be our special guest artist for this performance. This concert experience is curated especially for middle and high school audiences. In addition, each student will receive a digital Teen Guide specifically created for this concert.

Fantastic Fauré featuring Dashon Burton

FEBRUARY 28 , 2024 | 10:15 am*

Bradley Symphony Center

* Note NEW concert time!

Dashon Burton, bass-baritone

Wisconsin High School Choirs, TBA

Gabriel Fauré: Ouverture from Masques et bergamasques

Gabriel Fauré: Requiem

Join us for a concert that celebrates the most French of composers, Gabriel Fauré. The lively and elegant Ouverture from Masques et bergamasques will be followed by Fauré’s ethereal Requiem, featuring our 2024 Teen Choral Partners and very special guest, MSO Artistic Partner Dashon Burton, bass-baritone.

MAM tours not available for Teen Concerts.

Dashon Burton MSO Artistic Partner

VENUE AND PRICING

Bradley Symphony Center

212 W Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53203

We look forward to welcoming you to the Bradley Symphony Center for live Concerts for Schools performances in 2023.24! Learn more about what to expect during your visit at mso.org.

Can’t join us in person?

Digital streaming options for select concerts may be offered in 2023.24. Please check mso.org/concerts_for_schools for updates in the coming months.

Please visit mso.org/concerts_for_schools for pricing and registration information.

2023.24 Concerts for Schools

Digital Registration Form

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Single Concert All programs subject to change

PREMIUM

Includes Orchestra rows A-S, Box, Front Balcony

BASIC

$7.00 $4.50

Includes Orchestra rows T-Z and Back Balcony $6.00 $3.50

**A $3.00 processing fee will be charged per order to help cover the cost of materials.

Please note: All programs are subject to change.

OTHER INFORMATION

Docents

In conjunction with Forte, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra’s Volunteer League, the MSO offers free docent visits leading up to Youth and Music for Me! concerts. Our docents are passionate about the orchestra and trained by the area’s finest music educators. Docents arrange a time to visit your school, bringing fun activities and lessons corresponding to the performance. For more information, email edu@mso.org.

Chaperones

One complimentary chaperone ticket is offered for every ten paid student tickets.

Educational Materials

Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Teacher Resource Guides provide background information on the music and composers, as well as lesson plans in a full-color digital format. Lesson plans support Common Core and Wisconsin State Standards in music, English language arts, and other subject areas. Spotify playlists are created for each concert.

Contact Information

EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra

212 West Wisconsin Avenue

Milwaukee, WI 53203

Educators’ Discount

Phone: 414.226.7812

Email: edu@mso.org

Get 50% off regular subscription prices for any 2023.24 Classics Series concert, including Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Gershwin’s An American in Paris, and more! Call Luther Gray at 414.226.7840 or email at grayl@mso.org today.

Offer applies to Friday evening performances only.

The MSO thanks the following funders for their generous annual support that makes Concerts for Schools programming possible: the United Performing Arts Fund (UPAF), the Herzfeld Foundation, and the Eleanor N. Wilson and Irene Edelstein Memorial Funds as administered by the Greater Milwaukee Foundation.

Concerts for Schools is also supported in part by grants from the Wisconsin Arts Board, with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts, the Milwaukee Arts Board, and Milwaukee County CAMPAC.