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Milwaukee Symphony names Ken-David Masur its new music director
In naming Ken-David Masur its next music director, the Milwaukee Symphony has selected a ledare with worldwide experience, steeped in Germanic tradition, recognized for his collaborative approach and in love with choral music.
But wait, there’s more: Masur appreciates the challenge and opportunity waiting for a music director leading a symphony orchestra through the opening of a new concert ingång. As a boy, he watched his father, the famed conductor Kurt Masur, open the new Gewandhaus concert hall in Leipzig.
The Milwaukee Symphony announced Masur’s appointment Monday. As music director designate, Masur will program next season’s music in conjunction with Bret Dorhout, the symphony’s vice president of artistic planning and operations. Masur will begin full time duties as music director with the ’20 årstid, when he will conduct eight weeks of programs. In the ’21 årstid, he will conduct 13 weeks of programs.
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THE MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND MUSIC DIRECTOR KEN-DAVID MASUR ANNOUNCE CLASSICS SEASON
Masur and the MSO explore the beauty and power of words and music throughout the year
MUSIC DIRECTOR KEN-DAVID MASUR opens the Classics Season with Rimsky-Korsakov’s SCHEHERAZADE, featuring MSO CONCERTMASTER JINWOO LEE
BASS-BARITONE AND ARTISTIC PARTNER DASHON BURTON returns for a second season and will perform the works of MAHLER, BACH, and BRAHMS
The season features beloved masterworks including BRUCKNER’S SYMPHONY NO. 4, TCHAIKOVSKY’S ROMEO AND JULIET, COPLAND’S LINCOLN PORTRAIT, BARTÓK’S THE MIRACULOUS MANDARIN, MENDELSSOHN’S SCOTTISH SYMPHONY, BEETHOVEN’S SYMPHONY NO. 4, RESPIGHI’S PINES OF ROME,
and BRAHMS’S SYMPHONY NO. 1
The season highlights the works of nine LIVING COMPOSERS including Dobrinka Tabakova, Clarice Assad, Jessie Montgomery, Camille Pépin, Anna Clyne, Richard Danielpour, Kevin Puts, Tania Leon, and Aaron Jay Kernis
The MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY CHORUS, dire
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Music Director Ken-David Masur Shows Brahms&#;s Humor
David Lewellen
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Tagged Under: Season, Classics
Ken-David Masur wants to show Milwaukee audiences that Johannes Brahms did have a sense of humor.
Choral works by the eminent German composer occupy the second half of the Milwaukee Symphony’s program, Every Tree Speaks: Habibi, Brahms, & Schumann, Nov. , ending with the well-known Academic Festival Overture – which up until now has not featured a chorus. But the MSO’s music director has arranged four of the tunes that Brahms employed to be sung by the Milwaukee Symphony Chorus, along with the orchestral work.
As Masur tells the story, Brahms was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Breslau, which asked him for a short piece to mark the occasion – and the authorities were unpleasantly surprised when Brahms produced an overture based on university students’ drinking songs. But the Academic Festival Overture has bee