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I am delighted to welcome you to the 2024.25 Classics season of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra as we explore the beauty and power of words and music. Composers have long been, and continue to be, exquisite storytellers using poetry, sacred texts, and stories to weave the fabric of life’s most important questions and experiences into music. This season’s extraordinary music reflects a rich cultural and historical diversity with stories that bring joy, imagination, and a sense of discovery to our lives.
On behalf of our incredible orchestra, our Milwaukee Symphony Chorus, and stellar guest artists, including our wonderful Artistic Partner Dashon Burton, I invite you to join us for this journey together.”
KEN-DAVID MASUR Music Director
SEASON OPENER
SCHEHERAZADE
SERIES TYPE: 6A | 20 | 10A | 8A | MATINEE
FRI SEP 27, 2024 7:30 PM | SAT SEP 28, 2024 7:30 PM
SUN SEP 29, 2024 2:30 PM
Music Director Ken-David Masur conducts Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, a suite about a clever woman who weaves adventure-filled stories to save her own life. Simon Trpčeski conquers the challenge of Rachmaninoff’s demanding yet romantic First Piano Concerto.
KEN-DAVID MASUR conductor
SIMON TRP ČESKI piano
DOBRINKA TABAKOVA Orpheus’ Comet
RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 1
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade
BRUCKNER’S FOURTH SYMPHONY
SERIES TYPE: 6B | 20 | 10B | 8B
FRI OCT 4, 2024 7:30 PM | SAT OCT 5, 2024 7:30 PM
In honor of Bruckner’s 200th birthday, Music Director Ken-David Masur conducts his beloved “Romantic” Fourth Symphony. Returning Artistic Partner Dashon Burton gives voice to Mahler’s wistful Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen.
KEN-DAVID MASUR conductor
DASHON BURTON bass-baritone
CLARICE ASSAD Nhanderú
MAHLER Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
BRUCKNER Symphony No. 4
GEMMA NEW CONDUCTS SIBELIUS
SERIES TYPE: PRELUDE | 20 | 10A
FRI OCT 11 2024 11:15 AM | SAT OCT 12 2024 7:30 PM
Rising star Gemma New returns to guide the MSO through theadventure of Sibelius’s triumphant Second Symphony, and Vadim Gluzman performs Szymanowski’s rich and lyrical Second Violin Concerto.
GEMMA NEW conductor
VADIM GLUZMAN violin
JESSIE MONTGOMERY Coincident Dances
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 2
SZYMANOWSKI Violin Concerto No. 2
POULENC’S GLORIA
SERIES TYPE: 6A | 20 | 10B | 8B
FRI OCT 25, 2024 7:30 PM | SAT OCT 26, 2024 7:30 PM
Jean-Marie Zeitouni leads this vivacious performance of Poulenc’s Gloria, which invites the Milwaukee Symphony Chorus to the stage for an evening of exultation that will keep music-lovers enraptured to its final “Amen.”
JEAN-MARIE ZEITOUNI conductor
JOÉLLE HARVEY soprano
MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY CHORUS
CHERYL FRAZES HILL director
L. BOULANGER
D’un matin de printemps
RAVEL Shéhérazade
CAMILLE PÉPIN
Aux confins de l’orange
POULENC Gloria
JOÉLLE HARVEY
BACH’S CHRISTMAS ORATORIO
SERIES TYPE: 6B | 20 | 10B | 8B | MATINEE
FRI NOV 22, 2024 7:30 PM | SAT NOV 23, 2024 7:30 PM
SUN NOV 24, 2024 2:30 PM
Music Director Ken-David Masur and the MSO are joined by the Milwaukee Symphony Chorus for Bach’s celebratory Christmas Oratorio, ensuring its messages of contemplation, abundance, and jubilation ring from the rafters.
KEN-DAVID MASUR conductor
MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY CHORUS
CHERYL FRAZES HILL director
BACH Christmas Oratorio
REINHARDT CONDUCTS BEETHOVEN
SERIES TYPE: PRELUDE | 20 | 10A | 8A
transformative Symphony No. 80 and Hindemith’s enduring Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber.
RUTH REINHARDT conductor
ALESSIO BAX piano
WEBER Overture to Oberon
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 3
HAYDN Symphony No. 80 in D minor
HINDEMITH Symphonic Metamorphosis
MCGEGAN CONDUCTS HAYDN
SERIES TYPE: 6A | 20 | 10A |
FRI JAN 17, 2025 7:30 PM | SAT
Baroque-era specialist Nicholas McGegan returns to conduct music by two Haydns, including the exhilarating “Military” Symphony. Plus, pianist Saleem Ashkar makes his MSO debut with Mendelssohn’s stunning Piano Concerto No. 1.
NICHOLAS MCGEGAN conductor
SALEEM ASHKAR piano
MOZART Symphony No. 33 in B-flat
MENDELSSOHN Piano Concerto No. 1
M. HAYDN Incidental Music from
HAYDN Symphony No. 100, “Military”
TCHAIKOVSKY’S ROMEO & JULIET
SERIES TYPE: 6B | 20 | 10B
FRI JAN 24, 2025 7:30 PM | SAT JAN 25, 2025 7:30 PM
Music Director Ken-David Masur leads this kaleidoscopic program, featuring Concertmaster Jinwoo Lee performing Sibelius’s dreamy Violin Concerto, Nielsen’s symphonic poem Pan and Syrinx , and Anna Clyne’s elegy Within Her Arms. The program concludes with Tchaikovsky’s epic Romeo and Juliet.
KEN-DAVID MASUR conductor
JINWOO LEE violin
NIELSEN Pan and Syrinx
SIBELIUS Violin Concerto in D minor ANNA CLYNE Within Her Arms
TCHAIKOVSKY Romeo and Juliet
VIVALDI’S THE FOUR SEASONS
SERIES TYPE: 6A | 20 | 10B | 8B | MATINEE
FRI JAN 31 2025 7:30 PM | SAT FEB 1 2025 7:30 PM SUN
WONG
Baroque violinist Rachell Ellen Wong, Grand Prize winner of the inaugural J.S. Bach Competition, returns to the MSO to lead one of the most iconic treasures in all of the Baroque repertoire: Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons.
RACHELL ELLEN WONG violin & leader
VIVALDI The Four Seasons
AMERICAN VOICES
SERIES TYPE: PRELUDE | 20 | 10A | 8A
FRI FEB 21, 2025 11:15 AM | SAT FEB 22, 2025 7:30 PM
Music Director Ken-David Masur conducts a powerful program of American composers including Aaron Copland and Charles Ives. MSO Principal Clarinet
Toddy Levy performs Richard Danielpour’s From the Mountaintop, dedicated to the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
KEN-DAVID MASUR conductor
TODD LEVY clarinet
COPLAND
Lincoln Portrait
RICHARD DANIELPOUR From the Mountaintop
IV E S Symphony No. 2
TODD LEVY
INGRID FLITER PLAYS MOZART
SERIES TYPE: 6B | 20 | 10B | 8B
FRI FEB 28, 2025 7:30 PM | SAT MAR 1, 2025 7:30 PM
INGRID FLITER
Ingrid Fliter joins the MSO for Mozart’s smiling Piano Concerto No. 17. Michael Sanderling later conducts music from Prokofiev’s ballet Romeo and Juliet, complete with a masquerade ball, declarations of love, and a tragic ending for the star-crossed lovers.
MICHAEL SANDERLING conductor
INGRID FLITER piano
DELIUS Walk to the Paradise Garden
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 17 in G major, K. 453
PROKOFIEV Romeo and Juliet
MENDELSSOHN’S THIRD SYMPHONY
SERIES TYPE: PRELUDE | 20 | 10A | 8A | MATINEE
FRI MAR 7, 2025 11:15 AM | SAT MAR 8, 2025 7:30 PM
SUN MAR 9, 2025 2:30 PM
David Danzmayr returns to conduct Mendelssohn’s “Scottish” Symphony, as well as Claire Huangci’s rendition of Beethoven’s rarely-heard Piano Concerto No. 6.
DAVID DANZMAYR conductor CLAIRE HUANGCI piano
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 6, Op.61a MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 3 “Scottish”
COPLAND’S APPALACHIAN SPRING
SERIES TYPE: PRELUDE | 20 | 10B | 8B
FRI APR 4, 2025 11:15 AM | SAT APR 5, 2025 7:30 PM
MSO Assistant Conductor Ryan Tani returns to the podium to guide this lively program, which begins with Copland’s sentimental paean to the American heartland, Appalachian Spring, and ends with Beethoven’s buoyant and brilliant Fourth Symphony.
RYAN TANI conductor
COPLAND Appalachian Spring
KEVIN PUTS Marimba Concerto
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 4
BACH CELEBRATION
SERIES TYPE: 6B | 20 | 10A | 8A | MATINEE
FRI MAR 21, 2025 7:30 PM | SAT MAR 22, 2025 7:30 PM
SUN MAR 23, 2025 2:30 PM
Following last season’s successful celebration of one of history’s greatest composers, Music Director Ken-David Masur and Artistic Partner
Dashon Burton return with a fresh program of Bach favorites.
KEN-DAVID MASUR conductor
DASHON BURTON bass-baritone
JEANYI KIM violin
KEVIN PEARL oboe
BACH Concerto for Violin & Oboe
BACH Cantata “Ich habe genug”
BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 4
BACH Orchestral Suite No. 4
BRAHMS REQUIEM
SERIES TYPE: 6A | 20 | 10A | 8A | MATINEE
FRI APR 11, 2025 7:30 PM | SAT APR 12, 2025 7:30 PM
SUN APR 13, 2025 2:30 PM
Music Director Ken-David Masur conducts the orchestra, the Milwaukee Symphony Chorus, and Artistic Partner
Dashon Burton through Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem and his personal journey of sorrow and consolation.
KEN-DAVID MASUR conductor
MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY CHORUS
CHERYL FRAZES HILL director
DASHON BURTON bass-baritone
BRAHMS
Ein deutsches Requiem
DASHON BURTON
DINUR CONDUCTS TCHAIKOVSKY
SERIES TYPE: 20 | 10A | MATINEE
SAT APR 26, 2025 7:30 PM
SUN APR 27, 2025 2:30 PM
Yaniv Dinur, former resident conductor of the MSO, returns to lead Tchaikovsky’s astounding Fourth Symphony, whose emotional finale builds from darkness to light.
YANIV DINUR conductor
ALEXANDER KORSANTIA piano
BARBER Overture to The School for Scandal
PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. 3
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 4
BERNSTEIN & BARTÓKON
SERIES TYPE: 6A | 20 | 10B
FRI MAY 30, 2025 7:30PM
SAT MAY 31, 2025 7:30 PM
Stefan Asbury conducts vibrant stories set to music: Bernstein’s Serenade (featuring violinist Tai Murray) and Symphonic Dances from West , and finally Bartók’s The Miraculous
STEFAN ASBURY conductor
TAI MURRAY violin
Vyšehrad [The High Castle] from Má vlast BERNSTEIN Serenade after Plato’s Symposium
BERNSTEIN Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
The Miraculous Mandarin
PINES OF ROME
SERIES TYPE: PRELUDE | 20 | 10B | 8B
FRI MAY 9 , 2025 11:15 AM
SAT MAY 10, 2025 7:30 PM
Musical pictures abound in this imaginative program, led by Music Director Ken-David Masur, which begins with Rossini’s galloping William Tell overture and concludes with Resphigi’s stately yet evocative Pines of Rome.
KEN-DAVID MASUR conductor
ROSSINI Overture to William Tell
R. STRAUSS Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
TANIA LEON Ácana
RESPIGHI Pines of Rome
MASUR CONDUCTS BRAHMS
SERIES TYPE: PRELUDE | 20 | 10A | 8A
FRI JUN 6, 2025 11:15 AM | SAT JUN 7, 2025 7:30 PM
The MSO’s own principal cellist Susan Babini performs Aaron Jay Kernis’s expansive and haunting cello concerto Colored Field. Later, Music Director Ken-David Masur conducts Brahms’s First Symphony, whose brilliance helped the composer step out of Beethoven’s shadow.
KEN-DAVID MASUR conductor
SUSAN BABINI cello
AARON JAY KERNIS Colored Field
BRAHMS Symphony No. 1
