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Concert review
Imani Winds
4 stars out of 4 Read More
Month: April 2011
2008 Civic Music Performer is 2011 Grammy Winner
Paul Jacobs, an organist, who played for the Saturday, April 26, 2008 concert in the Civic Music series a few years ago was awarded a 2011 Grammy Award for “Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestra),” the first Grammy ever to a solo organist!
Civic Music is proud to have presented this history-making musician.
See the video interview with Paul Jacobs about his grammy award found on YouTube.
May 1—Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Program Notes
Program | Program Notes | Season Listing
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Festive Overture, Opus 96
Following a period from 1948 to 1953 when Shostakovich was almost exclusively involved with the creation of film scores and chamber music, he suddenly returned to orchestral composition with Symphony No. 10 and, in 1954, his brilliant Festive Overture. Allegedly written under great pressure of time, the overture was given its first performance on November 7, 1954 at a Moscow concert commemorating the thirty-seventh anniversary of the October Revolution (Soviet celebrations often went on for a long time). Read More
May 1—Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Program
Program | Program Notes | Season Listing
Dmitri Shostakovich
Festive Overture, Opus 96
Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No. 9 in E-flat major, Opus 70
Allegro
Moderato
Presto
Largo
Allegretto
—-Intermission —-
Mikhail Glinka
Overture to Russlan and Ludmilla
Sergei Prokofiev
March and Scherzo from Love for Three Oranges, Opus 33bis
Reinhold Gliere
“Russian Sailor’s Dance” from The Red Poppy
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Waltz from the Suite from The Sleeping Beauty
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Capriccio italien, Opus 45
E-Notes: Fantastic Finale on Sunday, May 1st
True to tradition, Brown County Civic Music will close the season with the magnificent Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Stuart Chafetz, who has warmly endeared himself to CM audiences. An evening of music by an all-Russian lineup of composers can be nothing less than sensational!
Ralph Holter Auditorium at Green Bay West High
7:30 p.m., doors open at 7:00
Tickets at door, $35, adults; $10 students
Reception following concert at Titletown Brewing Company. Y’all come!
Free bonus concert for new members who join for next season.
Invite family, friends & colleagues to experience live, classical music by professionals from around the world. 6 concerts for a 5-concert price, includes 2 MSO performances!! It will be an especially exciting season for young musicians.
Renew your membership
Renew your membership at the concert by enclosing a check with your membership form OR…renew your membership on our website.
Press Gazette: New season includes collaboration
by Warren Gerds • greenbaypressgazette.com • April 21, 2011
Action started when Brown County Civic Music Association booked famed pianist Lilya Zilberstein for a concert with her sons.
Zilberstein asked Roger Bintz, who books performances for Civic Music, if any other local organization might be interested in presenting her to make her flight from Hamburg, Germany, more cost-efficient.
Bintz lives four doors away from Mike Stefiuk, executive director of the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra. Bingo.
Civic Music will present Zilberstein in concert with her sons on Nov. 11.
The Green Bay Symphony will feature Zilberstein as guest artist in its Nov. 12 concert.
Visit the Green Bay Press Gazette’s site for Warren Gerds’ complete introduction to the 2011-2012 season schedule.
