WPR Music, Arts & Culture calendar

Looking for something lovely to do on Mother’s Day? Call someone special and come to a one-of-a -kind Peninsula Music Festival concert, featuring two loved and local musicians and teachers, Sara Bong, piano and Mary Bell, flute. Sara and Mary will perform a program full of heartwarming music to make you and your guest feel […]

Our 99th season finale opens with Gershwin’s Cuban Overture, pulsing with Caribbean rhythms from dance music he fell in love with on a vacation to Havana. Beloved pianist Philippe Bianconi returns for his seventh appearance performing Gershwin’s masterpiece Concerto in F. Our maestro John DeMain has conducted more than 400 performances of Gershwin’s Porgy and […]

The Verona Area Concert Band and Verona Area Wind Symphony will both perform a concert on Thursday May 15th from 7:30 – 9:00pm at the Verona Area High School Performing Arts Center in Verona, WI. Verona Area Concert Bands is comprised of two all-volunteer wind bands that each present four concerts per year. Rehearsing year‐round […]

You are invited to attend the Eugenie Mayer Bolz Family Concerts: Percussion Ensemble and Concert Orchestra. The WYSO Percussion Ensemble, under the direction of Vicki Peterson Jenks and Dane Crozier, will perform The Chameleon by Andrew R. Stout and the traditional Londonderry Air. The Concert Orchestra, led by Christine Mata Eckel, will present Beseda (arr. […]

Join the Ancora String Quartet at Taliesin’s famed Hillside Theater, for a “Schubertiad!” The quartet will perform Franz Schubert’s passionate and tragic masterpiece, Quartet in D Minor, D. 810, nicknamed the “Death and the Maiden” quartet. After that, they will be joined by cellist Trace Johnson in a performance of the ingenious C Major Quintet, […]

We conclude our season with the Milwaukee Musaik Chamber Orchestra and conductor Alexander Mandl spotlighting a fireworks guitar showcase featuring world-class guitar grandmaster Rene Izquierdo. A Milwaukee favorite, the renowned virtuoso will dazzle listeners in guitar concertos by Castelnuovo-Tedesco and Vivaldi. The program also includes Ottorino Respighi’s exquisite musical pictorial “Trittico Botticelliano” and Jacques Ibert’s […]

You are invited to attend the Eugenie Mayer Bolz Family Concerts: Concert/Philharmonia Brass Choir & Philharmonia Orchestra. The Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Michelle Kaebisch, will perform Mozart’s Piano Concerto in A Major, No. 23, K. 488 featuring soloist Rebecca Zhang. The program continues with Verdi’s Overture to Nabucco, Allerseelen by Richard Strauss (arr. Albert Oliver […]

Experience the grandeur of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 featuring pianist Fanya Lin, who wowed our audience in 2023, and Sibelius’ Nordic opus, Symphony No. 2, in SSO’s blockbuster Season Finale. Embark on a journey through the captivating soundscape of German-American Ingrid Stölzel’s City Beautiful as it opens the program.