Category: Performances

Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra

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Milwaukee-symphony

Professional symphony orchestra! — For the tenth consecutive spring, we at Civic Music are proud to close our season with the brilliance and power of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, a Wisconsin cultural treasure. Under the musical direction of Maestro Edo de Waart, the 68 full-time professionals of the MSO bring the full measure of symphonic beauty to the Green Bay stage.

Please note change of date

The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra concert, originally scheduled for May 6, 2017, has been rescheduled one week earlier, Saturday, April 29, 2017.

Bonus concert!

Purchases of the 2017-18 season membership prior to (right up to showtime!) include extra tickets to the final concert of our 2016-17 season. Details here.

Pre-concert talk 6:30-7 p.m.

  • with Yaniv Dinur, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra conductor
  • in the Lars Thune Center (small auditorium/lecture space on the right, when in the lobby facing the auditorium doors)

Russian String Orchestra

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Russian String Orchestra Misha Rachlevsky

Encore! Longtime subscribers might recall this group’s 2010 visit as one of the most dazzling demonstrations of musical virtuosity in series history. Founder and musical director Misha Rachlevsky returns at the helm of yet another all-star ensemble of exceptional young players, whose concerts and recordings have earned rave reviews from Russia to Western Europe to North America.

CANCELLED: Solid Brass Ensemble – Rescheduled Seraph Brass

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Replacement Concert: Seraph Brass 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 24
Use your tickets for the cancelled show for this one; if you’ve misplaced them, just check in at our Civic Music table in the lobby.

Civic Music received word late Friday night (Nov. 13) that the Solid Brass Ensemble could not get flights from New York City to Chicago to Green Bay due to fog and winter weather cancellations. The Saturday night, Nov. 18 concert of Brown County Civic Music, which would have featured the Solid Brass Ensemble at West High School’s Holter Auditorium, has been CANCELLED. We are investigating possibilities for rescheduling Solid Brass for later in our 2017-18 season.

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Solid Brass Ensemble

Live from New York!  Double the size of a typical brass quintet, Solid Brass transports listeners on a journey through medieval ceremonial music, John Philip Sousa, Strauss, Bizet, Benny Goodman, the Beach Boys and more. Players are drawn from the New York Philharmonic and Metropolitan Opera orchestras, Broadway shows and major-label studio sessions.

Imani Winds

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Imani Winds

Classically progressive! This polished, Grammy-nominated quintet features four woodwinds — flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon — and that most sublime of brass instruments, a French horn.  Newly appointed as Ensemble in Residence at the University of Chicago, Imani is known for exuberant musicianship, artistic risk-taking and a rising national profile.  Their name means “faith” in Swahili, reflecting African-American and Latin American roots.

Anderson & Roe Piano Duo

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Anderson & Roe

Dynamic duo! Praised as “the gold standard,” these red-hot Juilliard alumni had their October 2016 recital at the National Gallery rated spectacular by the esteemed Washington Post: “(Greg) Anderson and (Elizabeth) Roe are the very model of complete 21st-century musicians. They fuse classical and pop music into a blend of high artistry and skillful entertainment… They are crack pianists…”

Venue change

For the Anderson & Roe concert, we’ll sample an evening of music at the gleaming new Ashwaubenon Performing Arts Center at 2391 S. Ridge Road, Ashwaubenon, WI.

Seraph Brass (Replacement for Solid Brass Ensemble 11/18/17)

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We’ve landed a super sub for the November cancellation that occurred when East Coast weather grounded Solid Brass Ensemble. Unable to reschedule, we turned to an exciting young group we had already been eying for next year’s series: the all-female Seraph Brass led by trumpet standout Mary Bowden. They’ll perform for us at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 24. (Use your tickets for the cancelled show for this one; if you’ve misplaced them, just check in at our Civic Music table in the lobby.)

Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra

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Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra

Professional symphony orchestra! For more than a decade, Civic Music has proudly closed its season with the brilliance and power of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, a Wisconsin cultural treasure and one of this nation’s finest orchestras. Celebrating the traditional and contemporary in always-crowd-pleasing programs, the  full-time professionals of the MSO bring the full measure of symphonic beauty to the Green Bay stage.

Opera in the Garden

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Opera in the Garden – Green Bay Botanical Garden ampitheatre – Florentine Opera Company

The Brown County Civic Music association is partnering with the Green Bay Botanical Garden to present Opera in the Garden on Sunday, June 10, 2018 from  4 to 5:30 pm. Music lovers will enjoy a variety of popular and Broadway opera performances by The Florentine Opera featuring the Summer Concert Residency Artists. Lawn seating is free, no ticket is necessary. Cowles Terrace tickets are $10 each and may be purchased at gbbg.org/Opera.

Raúl Prieto Ramírez

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Raúl Prieto Ramírez

Colossally talented’ organist! With brilliance and bravado, elegance and energy, this young, Spanish-born artist has staked his claim among the world’s elite performers. Writes the Washington Post, “His fearless playing and, at times, brazen registrations give his eclectic programs a nervy, exciting flair so often lacking in (other) classical recitals.”

Special Venue: This concert is at the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts (UW‑Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Drive Green Bay, WI 54311 ) to make use of the facility’s world-class, 3,700‑pipe organ.

Cantus

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Cantus

Premier ensemble! This eight-member, a cappella group is regarded by many as America’s premier male vocal ensemble. Cantus brings finesse, grace and power to repertoire spanning Renaissance to 21st century. Impeccable technique and an engaging stage presence combine for memorable, crowd-pleasing concerts.