Spread the word

Share the good news about Brown County Civic Music Association. Ask a friend to join you at the MSO concert. Then invite them to join us as a member.

Memberships in Brown County Civic Music Association also make perfect presents for birthdays, anniversaries, graduations, Father’s Day, any day. Memberships are earth-friendly with no packaging to get rid of and many wonderful memories to enjoy.

Volunteer opportunities

Brown County Civic Music Association depends on dedicated volunteers to make these concerts part of what we all love about Green Bay. We have numerous opportunities to match your talents and interests, including advertising, history/archives, hosting artists backstage, membership campaign, publicity and marketing, ushers/greeters, talent selection, fundraising and online promotion.

We also need a new president to assume leadership beginning in June.

We need your help and invite you to contact us at office@bccivicmusic.org or (920) 338-1801.

For more information, visit our volunteer opportunities page.

We need your support

Special thanks to Judy Lindbom for her donation in memory of Ken Schneider. Please remember Brown County Civic Music Association in your charitable giving. Your support is essential in helping us meet our mission of presenting an annual series of affordably priced concerts performed by outstanding professional artists and ensembles from around the world. We also invite you to remember Brown County Civic Music Association in your estate planning. Brown County Civic Music Association is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. We have been bringing world-renowned performers to Green Bay since 1927. To support BCCMA or learn more, see our Support page.

Post-Concert Reception

You’re invited to meet and greet the performers and your concert-going friends at Titletown Brewing Company and nibble on complimentary snacks after the concert. A big thanks to the Titletown Brewing Company for providing the space and the snacks.

Location: Titletown Brewing Company, 200 Dousman St, Green Bay, WI

Classics by Request

Every Saturday from 10 am to 11 am on WPNE, 89.3, WPR Host Ruthanne Bessman plays listener’s classical requests on Classics by Request.
Listeners can submit their requests online at www.wpr.org/classics-request or call in toll free during the show at 800-442-7106. This is a great chance to get the word out about Brown County Civic Music Association and hear the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra perform. Be sure to mention that the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra will be performing at the Brown County Civic Music Association Concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 21, in Ralph Holter Auditorium at West High School, Green Bay.

MSO Biographies

Season listing | Biographies | Program | Pre-concert talk

The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, under the dynamic leadership of Music Director Edo de Waart, is among the finest orchestras in the nation. Now in his sixth season with the MSO, Maestro de Waart has led sold-out concerts, elicited critical acclaim, and conducted a celebrated performance at Carnegie Hall on May 11, 2012. The MSO’s full-time professional musicians perform over 135 classics, pops, family, education, and community concerts each season in venues throughout the state. Since its inception in 1959, the MSO has found innovative ways to give music a home in the region, develop music appreciation and talent among area youth, and raise the national reputation of Milwaukee. The MSO’s standard of excellence extends beyond the concert hall and into the community, reaching more than 40,000 children and their families through its Arts in Community Education (ACE) program, Youth and Teen concerts, Meet the Music pre-concert talks, and Friday Evening Post-Concert Talkbacks. Celebrating its 25th year, the nationally-recognized ACE program integrates arts education into state-required curricula, providing opportunities for students when budget cuts may eliminate arts programming. The program provides lesson plans and supporting materials, classroom visits from MSO musician ensembles and artists from local organizations, and an MSO concert tailored to each grade level. This season, more than 7,600 students and 500 teachers and faculty in 25 Southeastern Wisconsin schools will participate in ACE.

Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Featured Biographies

Yaniv Dinur, conductor
Born in Jerusalem in 1981, Yaniv Dinur has performed with orchestras in Israel, Europe, the United States, Canada and Mexico. He has won numerous conducting awards, among them the 2nd Prize at the 2009 Mata International Conducting Competition in Mexico, and the Yuri Ahronovitch 1st Prize in the 2005 Aviv Conducting Competitions in Israel. He was chosen by the League of American Orchestras to be a featured conductor in the 2011 Bruno Walter Conducting Preview, and he is a recipient of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation and the Zubin Mehta Scholarship Endowment.

Ilana Setapen, violin
Since her solo orchestral debut at age 15 with the Amarillo Symphony, Ilana Setapen has been flourishing as a violinist with a powerful and original voice. She is the associate concertmaster of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. She has won top prizes in many competitions, including the Irving M. Klein International String Competition, the Pasadena Showcase Competition, and the Kingsville International Competition. Solo and chamber music performances have brought her to France, Brazil, Holland, England, Monaco, and Italy.

Sonora Slocum, flute
Sonora Slocum is principal flute of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. “Slocum’s solo work continues to impress. She plays with a clean, well-tuned sound, easily floating through the hall rather than slicing the air, always creating graceful phrases” (Shepherd Express, 3/14). Ms. Slocum has performed with orchestras throughout the United States and Asia. She has appeared with the Philadelphia Orchestra and performed as guest principal with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Katherine Young Steele, oboe
Katherine Young Steele is the principal oboe of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, a position she has held since 2012. Of her recent performances of Richard Strauss’ Oboe Concerto with Music Director Edo de Waart, Steele was praised for her “engrossing performance…with a ringing, beautifully centered sound and elegant interpretive direction” (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, 2/15). Steele was principal oboe of The Florida Orchestra, 2007-2012, where she appeared as soloist and collaborated on the orchestra’s multi-year cultural exchange with musicians in Havana, Cuba. She has also served as guest principal oboe in the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the San Diego Symphony and the Sarasota Orchestra.

Learn more about the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra:
website: www.mso.org
video: Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra YouTube Channel youtube.com/milwsymphorch

MSO – Program

Season listing | Biographies | Program | Pre-concert talk

May 21, 2016 Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Concert

Yaniv Dinur, conductor
Ilana Setapen, violin

Overture to West Side Story Leonard Bernstein (arr. Maurice Peress)

Slavonic Dance, Opus 46, No. 8 in G minor Antonin Dvorák

Slavonic Dance, Opus 72, No. 2 in E Minor Antonin Dvorák

Overture to Die Fledermaus Johann Strauss, Jr.

Libertango Astor Piazzolla (arr. Johannes Berauer)

Oblivion Astor Piazzolla (arr. Robert Longfield)
Katherine Young Steele, oboe Sonora Slocum, flute

Tango (Por Una Cabeza) Carlos Gardel (arr. John Williams)
Ilana Setapen, violin

–Intermission–

Introduction and Rondo capriccioso in A minor for Violin and Orchestra, Opus 28 Camille Saint-Saens
Ilana Setapen, violin

Suite from The Firebird (1919 revision) Igor Stravinsky

I. Introduction and Dance of the Firebird
II. Dance of the Princesses
III. Infernal Dance of King Kastchei
IV. Berceuse
V. Finale