Saturdays at 7pm

Maestro Ken-David Masur. Credit: Adam DeTour
The WFMT Orchestra Series continues with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra – On Stage. The 2023 program begins with Music Director Ken-David Masur leading a program featuring Wynton Marsalis’s Herald, Holler and Hallelujah! and George Geshwin’s Concerto in F for Piano and Orchestra with Aaron Diehl at the piano. The broadcast also includes Strauss’s Eine Alpensinfonie. Other highlights of the series include:
• Jonathon Heyward conducts a a program opening with Jessie Montgomery’s Records from a Vanishing City along with Antonín Dvořák’s Symphony No. 2. James Ehnes joins the performance for Sergei Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2
• Joyce Yang is the soloist in the Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor by Mozart. Witold Lutoslawski’s Concerto for Orchestra and Dvořák’s In Nature’s Realm are also heard in this exciting broadcast.
•Aaron Diehl is back for a second year as the orchestra’s artistic partner and is the soloist in the complete version of Mary Lou Williams’s Zodiac Suite. William Grant Still‘s Symphony No. 2, Song of a New Race and The Planets by Holst are also featured in this performance.
• Edo de Waart is the guest conductor at the podium as we hear works by Brahms and Mozart. Matthew Annin joins as the horn soloist in Strauss’s Concerto No.1 in E-flat major for Horn and Orchestra.
• To finish up the season, The Milwaukee Symphony Chorus joins in an exciting performance of Mahler’s Symphony No.2 in C minor, Resurrection conducted by Music Director Ken-David Masur.
See the complete listings below.
Schedule
November 25
CONDUCTOR
Han-Na Chang; Markus Stenz
SOLOIST
Stephen Hough, piano*
Anna Clyne
The Midnight Hour
Rachmaninoff
Concerto No. 2 in C minor for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 18*
Shostakovich
Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47
December 2
CONDUCTOR
Roderick Cox
SOLOIST
lnon Barnaton, piano*
Strauss
Don Juan, Op. 20
Beethoven
Concerto No. 4 in G major for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 58*
Sibelius
Symphony No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 82
December 9
CONDUCTOR
Yaniv Dinur
SOLOIST
Joyce Yang, piano*
Dvořák
In Nature’s Realm, Op. 91
Mozart
Concerto No. 24 in C minor for Piano and Orchestra, K. 491*
Lutosławski
Concerto for Orchestra
December 16
CONDUCTOR
Ken-David Masur
SOLOIST
Aaron Diehl Trio*
Milwaukee Symphony Women’s Chorus**Still
Symphony No. 2, “Song of a New Race”
Williams
Zodiac Suite*
Holst
The Planets, Op. 32**
December 23
CONDUCTOR
Edo de Waart
SOLOIST
Matthew Annin, horn*
Brahms
Serenade No. 2 in A major, Op. 16
Strauss
Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major for Horn and Orchestra, Op. 11*
Mozart
Symphony No. 41 in C major, K. 551, “Jupiter”
December 30
CONDUCTOR
Ken-David Masur
SOLOIST
Jessica Rivera, soprano; Anna Larsson, mezzo-soprano;
Milwaukee Symphony Chorus/ Cheryl Frazes Hill, director*Britten
“Four Sea Interludes” from Peter Grimes, Op. 33a
Mahler
Symphony No. 2 in C minor, “Resurrection”*