Under the guidance of Music Director Jamin Hoffman, the Concord Chamber Orchestra will close its season with a concert in a “blue” theme. The program opens with “Blue Rag” by Israeli composer Rami Bar-Niv and continues with Morton Gould's 1939 composition Symphonette No. 2 (“American”)...

Queen was a popular and prolific music factory, selling more than 300 million albums across the planet. With sales numbers second only to the Beatles, Queen ruled the airways and the concert circuits. According to Mark Blake's Is This the Real Life? The Untold Story of Queen (Da Capo Press)...

The Flanders Recorder Quartet will visit Milwaukee for a concert at Wisconsin Lutheran College. The ensemble, which hails from the Netherlands, consists of respected recorder artists Bart Spanhove, Tom Beets, Joris van Goethem and Paul van Loey...

The Prometheus Trio, resident piano trio for the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music (WCM), includes pianist Stefanie Jacob, a faculty member of WCM since 1987, along with violinist Timothy Klabunde and cellist Scott Tisdel. Next week they will perform...

Guest conductor Gilbert Varga leads pianist Kirill Gerstein and the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra in a wide range of musical flavors. It starts off with Turn the Key, a contemporary work by American composer Steven Mackey, who often draws rock and...

Cole Porter, born in Peru, Ind., in 1891, personified sophistication. His parents encouraged him to study music and acting. He chose the violin and piano—and completed his first song at the age of 10. Understanding the boy's talent, his parents...

From the Diary of Virginia Woolf is a cycle of eight songs based on excerpts from the diary of legendary author Virginia Woolf, the acclaimed novelist, critic and essayist from early-20th-century England. The words were adapted for music by Dominick Argento, known for his choral writing and operas such as...

Franz Schubert was born in 1797 near Vienna. He learned music at an early age; tutored on the violin by his father, a schoolmaster, he was also taught piano by his older brother. Schubert was an early member of what later was known as the Vienna Boys choir and caught the attention of Antonio Salieri, who undertook...