MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Tuesday evenings at 8 p.m., beginning January 3, 2012
(programs subject to change)

2012 Broadcast Schedule:

PROGRAM #:  MSO 11-01
AIRS JANUARY 3, 2012
CONDUCTOR: Edo de Waart
SOLOISTS:  Pamela Armstrong, soprano; Meredith Arwady, contralto; Vinson Cole, tenor; OrenGradus, bas; Milwaukee Symphony Chorus, Lee Erickson, director
John Adams:  Tromba Lontana
Copland:  Suite from Appalachian Spring (1945 orchestration)
Beethoven:  Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125, Choral

PROGRAM #:  MSO 11-02
AIRS JANUARY 10, 2012
CONDUCTOR: Edo de Waart
SOLOIST:  Joseph Kalichstein, piano
Beethoven:  Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat Major for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 19
Mahler:  Symphony No. 7 in E-Minor

PROGRAM #:  MSO 11-03
AIRS JANUARY 17, 2012
CONDUCTOR: Edo de Waart
SOLOIST:  Joyce Yang, piano
Rachmaninoff:  The Isle of the Dead, Op. 29
Rachmaninoff:  Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43
Rachmaninoff:  Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14
Rachmaninoff:  Symphonic Dances, Op. 45

PROGRAM #:  MSO 11-04
AIRS JANUARY 24, 2012
CONDUCTOR: Edo de Waart
SOLOIST:  Frank Almond, violin
Grieg:   Suite No. 1 from Peer Gynt, Op. 46
Barber:   Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 14
Bartok:   Concerto for Orchestra

PROGRAM #:  MSO 11-05
AIRS JANUARY 31, 2012
CONDUCTOR: Edo de Waart
SOLOISTS:  Kyoko Takezawa, violin; Christine Goerke, soprano; Hugh Russell, baritone; Milwaukee Symphony Chorus, Lee Erickson, director
Tchaikovsky:  Concerto in D Major for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 35
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 1, A Sea Symphony

PROGRAM #:  MSO 11-06
AIRS FEBRUARY 7
CONDUCTOR: Edo de Waart
SOLOIST:  Ronald Brautigam, piano
Brahms:  Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56a
Beethoven:  Concerto No. 3 in C Minor for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 37
R. Strauss:  Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life), Op. 40

PROGRAM #:  MSO 11-07
AIRS FEBRUARY 14
CONDUCTOR: Andreas Delfs
SOLOISTS:  Ellie Dehn, soprano (Magna Peccatrix); Jennifer Check, soprano (Una Poenitentium); Janice Chandler-Eteme, soprano (Mater Gloriosa); Susan Platts, alto (Mulier Samaritana); Gigi Mitchell-Velasco, alto (Maria Aegyptiaca); Anthony Dean-Griffey, tenor (Doctor Marianus); Quinn Kelsey, baritone (Pater Ecstaticus); Nathan Berg, bass (Pater Profundus); Milwaukee Symphony Chorus, Lee Erickson, director; Master singers of Milwaukee, Eric Townell, director; Milwaukee Children's Choir, Emily Holt Crocker, director
Mahler:  Symphony No. 8 in E-Flat Major, Symphony of a Thousand

PROGRAM #:  MSO 11-08
AIRS FEBRUARY 21
CONDUCTOR: Edo de Waart
SOLOIST:  Garrick Ohlsson, piano
Brahms:  Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80
Schumann:  Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 97, Rhenish
Beethoven:  Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 73, Emperor

PROGRAM #:  MSO 11-09
AIRS FEBRUARY 28, 2012
CONDUCTOR: Edo de Waart
SOLOISTS:  Emanuel Ax, piano; Margaret Jane Wray, soprano; Clifton Forbis, tenor; Andrea Silverstrelli, bass
Beethoven:  Concerto No. 4 in G Major for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 58
Wagner:  Act 1 from Die Walküre

PROGRAM #:  MSO 11-10
AIRS MARCH 6, 2012
CONDUCTOR: Edo de Waart
SOLOISTS:  Milwaukee Symphony Chorus, Lee Erickson, director
Barber:   Adagio for Strings
John Adams:  Harmonium
Beethoven:  Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 55, Eroica

PROGRAM #:  MSO 11-11
AIRS MARCH 13, 2012
CONDUCTOR: Edo de Waart
SOLOIST:  Gil Shaham, violin
Delius/arr. Thomas
Beecham:  The Walk to the Paradise Garden
William Walton: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
Berlioz:  Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14

PROGRAM #:  MSO 11-12
AIRS MARCH 20, 2012
CONDUCTOR: Edo de Waart
SOLOIST:  Xavier Phillips, cello
Hindemith:  Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes of Carl Maria von Weber
Elgar:   Concerto in E Minor for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 85
Dvorak:  Symphony No. 7 in D Minor, Op. 70 (old No. 2)

PROGRAM #:  MSO 11-13
AIRS MARCH 27, 2012
CONDUCTOR: Edo de Waart
SOLOISTS:  Twyla Robinson, soprano; Kelley O'Connor, mezzo-soprano; Milwaukee Symphony Chorus, Lee Erickson, director; Milwaukee Children's Choir Jubilate, Carol Storck, director
Mahler:  Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, Resurrection