August 25, 2018 By Jay Rath Michael Leckrone, longtime director of the University of Wisconsin–Madison Marching Band, announced today that he will step down at the end of the 2018-19 academic year. He made the announcement to the band following rehearsal. Students were visibly moved, linking arms and joining with him to sing “Varsity.” […]
News release March 13, 2018 Contact: Katherine Esposito 608.263.5615 Celebrating a milestone with students, faculty and special guest, trumpeter Marquis Hill This April, UW-Madison’s annual Jazz Week will celebrate the 50th anniversary season of the UW Jazz Orchestra, the first jazz ensemble at UW-Madison’s Mead Witter School of Music. Jazz Week 2018 will […]
January 10, 2018 Contact: David Ronis ronis@wisc.edu Katherine Esposito kesposito@wisc.edu Riveting theater, achingly beautiful music abound in upcoming University Opera production of La Bohème University Opera takes over the Wisconsin Union Theater for a three-day run of Puccini’s masterpiece On February 23, 24 and 25, University Opera, in collaboration with the Wisconsin Union Theater, will […]
December 27, 2017 For the first time in 20 years, a bassoonist has won the Mead Witter School of Music’s concerto competition and will perform solo on stage on March 18, 2018 in our annual “Symphony Showcase” winners’ recital. Bassoonist Eleni Katz will play Mozart’s Bassoon Concerto in B flat major, K. 191 with […]
During his graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, alumnus J. Griffith Rollefson embarked on several international research trips while writing his dissertation, “European Hip Hop and the Politics of Postcoloniality.” Throughout Europe, he frequented hip hop shows, clubs, record shops, and open mic nights to observe and interview the people who consider this artform […]
September 27, 2017 Contact: Katherine Esposito 263-5615 David Ronis University Opera turns to music and theater of the mid-20th century with A KURT WEILL CABARET This fall, University Opera takes a short break from strictly operatic offerings as it turns to the music of Kurt Weill (1900-1950). A KURT WEILL CABARET, a pastiche of 21 […]
Contact: Jay Rath (608) 438-0127 In Memoriam: “Band Mom” Phyllis Leckrone Phyllis Bechtold Leckrone, 81, wife of longtime UW Marching Band director Mike Leckrone, passed away early this morning following a long illness. She was surrounded by family. A native of North Manchester, Ind., she and her husband met in junior high school and became […]
The Carillon returns! May 26, 2017 For more information: kesposito@wisc.edu We are happy to report that the UW-Madison Memorial Carillon concerts will resume on Sunday, May 28, 2017, at 3 pm, with Sunday afternoon concerts on the second and fourth Sundays of the month at least through the end of the summer (August). Lyle Anderson, […]
January 31, 2017 Contacts: David Ronis ronis@wisc.edu Katherine Esposito kesposito@wisc.edu Fresh from winning two major awards in the 2015-16 National Opera Association Competition, University Opera will present Benjamin Britten’s gothic ghost story, The Turn of the Screw, to round out its season. In this, Britten’s last chamber opera, based on the Henry James novella […]
January 26, 2017 CONTACT: Beth Larson, beth.larson@wisc.edu Katherine Esposito kesposito@wisc.edu UW-Madison Musicians to present “Thank You” concert to Mead Witter Foundation The University of Wisconsin Mead Witter School of Music will bring two quintet ensembles to the Performing Arts Center in Wisconsin Rapids for a free concert on Thursday, February 9 at 7:30 p.m. The […]
University Opera scores again with national recognition Awards for two shows in 2015-2016 UW-Madison’s University Opera is on a roll. Both shows from last year, Transformations and Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, have won awards in the National Opera Association’s (NOA) Opera Production Competition for 2015-2016. It is the second year in a row that […]
ALSO IN JANUARY: Violinist Soh-Hyun Altino and pianist Christopher Taylor team up for an afternoon of exquisite sonatas from Fauré and Corigliano. Sunday, January 22, 4 PM. Learn more here. Join pianists Martha Fischer, Bill Lutes, and friends on the stage and seats of Mills Hall for January’s “Schubertiade,” an intimate homage to the music, […]
Two violinists, one pianist, one trumpeter, and one vocalist will solo with UW Symphony Orchestra with conductor James Smith. In addition, the music of composition student Nathan Froebe will be performed. The concert is in Mills Hall at 7:30 PM. There will be a free public reception immediately following at the University Club, 803 State […]
New opera sheds light on Artemisia Gentileschi, one of the Baroque’s most respected female painters By Michael Muckian Artemisia, the recently completed opera by the University of Wisconsin’s Laura Elise Schwendinger, has been scheduled for its world premiere performance January 7 in New York City as part of Trinity Church Wall Street’s 2016-2017 performance season. […]
Wisconsin Chapter of the Percussive Arts Society Presents “Wisconsin Day of Percussion” January 21, 2017 at the Mead Witter School of Music Hosted by Anthony Di Sanza, professor of percussion, and the UW-Madison Percussion Studio On January 21, 2017 the Wisconsin chapter of the Percussive Arts Society will present the all-day Wisconsin Day of Percussion […]
As part of the worldwide commemoration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, University Opera will present Verdi’s final masterpiece, Falstaff. Based on material from The Merry Wives of Windsor, Henry IV, and Henry V, Falstaff is a wild, comic romp. In the UW-Madison production, updated to Hollywood in 1930, Falstaff is a has-been silent […]