2024 Schedule
Sunday, May 26
Conductor: Ken-David Masur
Soloist: Aaron Diehl, piano
- Wynton Marsalis: “Herald, Holler and Hallelujah”
- George Gershwin: Piano Concerto in F
- James P. Johnson: “Carolina Shout” (solo piano)
- Duke Ellington: “Single Petal of a Rose” (solo piano)
- Richard Strauss: Alpin Symphony
- Thelonius Monk: “Monk’s Mood” (solo piano)
Sunday, June 2
Conductor: Jonathan Heyward and Jade Bignamini
Soloist: James Engels, violin
- Jessie Montgomery: Records From a Vanishing City
- Sergei Prokofiev: Violin Concerto #2 in g minor
- J. S. Bach: Andante from Sonata #2 in a minor (solo violin)
- Niccolo Paganini: Caprice #16 in g minor (solo violin)
- Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Ballade in a minor
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony #5 in e minor
Sunday, June 9
Conductor: Ken-David Masur and Edo de Waart
Milwaukee Symphony Chorus
- Iman Habibi: “Jeder Baum Spricht”
- Robert Schumann: Symphony #1 in B-Flat Major “Spring”
- Johannes Brahms: “Gesang der Parzen”
- Johannes Brahms: “Schicksalslied”
- Johannes Brahms, arr. Ken-David Masur: Academic Festival Overture
- Johannes Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn
Sunday, June 16
Conductor: David Robertson and Ken-David Masur
Soloist: Orli Shaham, piano
- Maurice Ravel: Une barque sur l’ocean
- Frederic Chopin: Piano Concerto #2 in f minor
- Maurice Ravel: “Menuet” from Sonatine (solo piano)
- Olivier Messiaen: L’Ascension
- Maurice Ravel: La Valse
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 in C major
Sunday, June 23
Conductor: Ken-David Masur
Soloist: Babe Skride, violin
- Jean Sibelius: Night Ride and Sunrise
- Sebastian Currier: Aether
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony #3 in E-Flat Major “Eroica”
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony #2 in D Major
Sunday, June 30
Conductor: Nicholas McGegan, Ken-David Masur, and Alexander Shelley
Soloists: Ilana Setapen, violin; Jennifer Bouton, piccolo
- Jean-Philippe Rameau: Suite from “Naïs”
- Antonio Vivaldi: Violin Concerto in F major RV 569
- George Frederic Handel: Water Music Suite No. 1
- Felix Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture
- Franz Josef Haydn: Symphony No. 96 in D major
Sunday, July 7
Conductor: Ken-David Masure
Soloist: Chris Lamb, percussion
- Bedrich Smetana: The Moldau
- Adolphus Hailstork: An American Port of Call
- Toru Takemitsu: Toward the Sea II
- David Ludwig: Pictures from the Floating World
- Claude Debussy: La Mer
- Tan Dun: Water Concerto
Sunday, July 14
Conductor: Han-na Chang, Markus Stenz, and Ken-David Masur
Soloist: Stephen Hough, piano
- Anna Clyne: This Midnight Hour
- Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in e minor
- Frederic Chopin: Nocturne in E flat, Op. 9/2 (solo piano)
- Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in d minor
- Sergei Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 “Classical”
Sunday, July 21
Conductor: Roderick Cox and Zdenek Macal
Soloist: Inon Barnatan, piano
- Richard Strauss: Don Juan
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto #4 in G Major
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 6 in F major, Finale (piano solo)
- Jean Sibelius: Symphony #5 in E-Flat Major
- Antonin Dvorak: Czech Suite
Sunday, July 28
Conductor: Yaniv Dinur and Jonathan Hayward
Soloist: Joyce Yang, piano
- Antonin Dvorak: In Nature’s Realm
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor K. 491
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: May Starlit Nights (piano solo)
- Edvard Grieg: Notturno, from “Lyric Pieces”
- Witold Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra
- Antonin Dvorak: Symphony #8 in G Major
Sunday, August 4
Conductor: Ken-David Masur
Soloists: Aaron Diehl, piano, David Wong, bass, Aaron Kimmel, drums, Alicia Hill Moran, mezzo-soprano, women of the Milwaukee Symphony Chorus
- Williams Grant Still: Symphony No. 2 “Song of a New Race” excerpts
- Mary Lou Williams: The Zodiac Suite
- Gustav Holst: The Planets
Sunday, August 11
Conductor: Edo de Waart
Soloists: Matthew Annin, French horn, Ronald Brautigam, piano
- Johannes Brahms: Serenade No.2 in A major
- Richard Strauss: Horn Concerto #1 in E-Flat Major
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony #41 in C Major, K. 551 “Jupiter”
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 25 in C major K.503
Sunday, August 18
Conductor: Ken-David Masur and Yang Dinur
Soloists: Jessica Rivera, soprano and Anna Larsson, mezzo-soprano, Milwaukee Symphony Chorus
- Toru Takemitsu: Rain Coming
- Benjamin Britten: Four Sea Interludes
- Gustav Mahler: Symphony #2 in c minor “Resurrection”