Billed as “the most sought-after trio in the world,” the Grammy-Nominated Eroica Trio will perform in Madison several times this week — and we’re going to tell you about some inexpensive ways to hear them in person.
The first Eroica Trio concert is at 8 p.m. on Thursday, March 11th in the Wisconsin Union Theater, 800 Langdon Street. Tickets range from $18 to $35; but if you’re a UW student with a valid i.d., tickets are only $10.
If you’re not a student, you can qualify for a sweet deal if you buy one of the regular-priced tickets to Thursday’s performance: a FREE ticket to hear the Eroica Trio perform with the UW Chamber Orchestra at 8 p.m. on Saturday, March 13th in the Wisconsin Union Theater.
If you don’t want to buy a regular-priced ticket for Thursday, you can buy a ticket for the Saturday night concert for just $10 (general admission).
As always, we recommend purchasing your tickets in person at the Wisconsin Union Theater Box Office in order to avoid the processing charges associated with online and telephone orders. If you buy your tickets at the box office and you’re a Union Member, be sure to mention this to the people working at the box office. In many (but not all) instances, your membership will qualify you for a small discount on ticket purchases.
Finally, the Eroica Trio’s website’s schedule page lists a TBA Master Class in the Wisconsin Union Theater on Friday, March 12th. If you’re interested in attending this event, check Today in the Union (TITU) later in the week to see if a time has been posted. Master Classes are usually (but not always) open to the public.
The performance is part of World Languages Day for the Commnity, which will take place from 1 p.m. until 4 p.m. on Saturday, March 13th in the Memorial Union. World Languages Day features workshops and performances highlighting diverse languages, cultures and societies from around the world. A complete schedule of events is available on the UW-Madison Language Institute website.
World Languages Day for the Community is FREE and open to audiences of middle-school age and older. Advanced registration is not required.
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Little Red Wolf, which features the protean Emily Mills on vocals and percussion, is performing at 9:30 p.m. tonight at the High Noon Saloon as part of the Atlas Improv Co. 6th Anniversary Celebration, which, in addition to performances by members of Atlas Improv, will include a performance by Daredevil Christopher Wright. Tickets are $12 ($10 in advance).
This is an 18 and up event. If you’re not that old (or even if you are), you can catch Atlas Improv’s regular Thursday night show at 7 p.m. tonight at Yola’s Cafe, 494 Commerce Drive. Tickets to this show are only $6 ($3 for students).
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Cellist Perry Karp will perform a free concert at 8 p.m. on Friday, March 5th in Mills Hall.
The program will begin with the “Suite No. 1 in G major for solo cello” by J. S. Bach. This will be followed by the “Sonata in D minor for violin and piano, Op. 121″ by Robert Schumann, transcribed for cello by Friedrich Gruetzmacher and Parry Karp. (This year marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Schumann.) The program concludes with the “Sonata in F major for cello and piano, Op. 99″ by Johannes Brahms.
Pianist Eli Kalman will join Karp for the Schumann and Brahms sonatas.
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Turner Collins performs from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Friday, March 6th at Wild Hog in the Woods, 953 Jenifer Street on Madison’s near East Side. According to his website, “Turner began his performing career with the Chameleon Puppet Theater in the early-1980s and progressed to the festivals and fine arts series he enjoys today. Turner performs on whistle, bombarde, bodhran, button accordion, and harp.”
Admission to this family friendly event is just $3. Admission pays the rent. Performers are paid from the money the audience puts in the Wild Hog’s ceramic wild boar piggy bank, affectionately called Phillup the Pig (pronounced fill-up).
Seating is limited, so you may want to arrive a bit early.
Fans of American Idol winner (and Milwaukee native) Danny Gokey may want to take a trip down the Interstate this weekend. Gokey will perform at 7 p.m. on Saturday, March 6th at Turner Hall Ballroom, 1032 N. 4th Street in Milwaukee.
Thanks to Milwaukee Consumer (via Twitter) for this tip.
Tickets to the event are $12 and include a copy of Gokey’s debut CD, “My Best Days.” Tickets are available at the door only starting at 5:30 p.m. on the day of the show.
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Olbrich Botanical Society invites you to “warm your winter day” with a concert by Yid Vicious at 2 p.m. on Sunday, February 28th in the Evjue Commons at Olbrich Botanical Gardens, 3330 Atwood Avenue.
According to its website, “Yid Vicious was formed in 1995 in Madison, WI in order to ameliorate the woeful dearth of klezmer in America’s otherwise pleasant heartland. Klezmer is Yiddish folk music, music for dancing and celebrating, and no band has caused more dancing and celebrating than Yid Vicious.”
The concert, part of Olbrich’s Winter Concert Series, is free, but a $1 donation is suggested.
Composer-conductor Jerry Hui will present a free lecture-recital on Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’ “Eight Songs for a Mad King” at 8 p.m. on Friday, February 26th in Mills Hall.
According to the event’s organizers, “Peter Maxwell Davies’ “Eight Songs for a Mad King” stirred up much controversy immediately after its 1969 premiere. Written for and premiered by a legendary actor-singer Roy Hart, this piece is a vocal tour-de-force depiction of madness. The character is inspired by King George III, who allegedly went mad.”
Featured performers include: Morgann Davis, flute; Ching-Hsie Hsu, clarinet; Ian Disjardin, percussion; Mary Perkinson, violin; Emily Gruselle, cello; Jeff Gibbens, piano; Ching-Chun Lai, conductor; and Jerry Hui, voice.
This performance is part of a lecture-recital, during which the piece will be discussed first, then performed.
This event is free and open to the public. Donations will accepted.
On Friday, February 26th, pianist Li-Shan Hung and violinist Kwangwon Kim will perform music of Mozart, Messiaen and Brahms
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Registration is now open for the Madison Symphony Orchestra’s open rehearsal on Thursday, March 18th, featuring Patrick Strub, conductor and Jonathan Biss, piano
The Madison Symphony Orchestra is one of the few orchestras in the nation that allows the public to attend its dress rehearsals free of charge. Take advantage of this opportunity to experience a working symphony in action. Registration is required and opens one month prior to each rehearsal. Space is limited, so don’t wait until it’s too late.
The 12-member UW-Madison Black Music Ensemble will perform at 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, February 18th in Morphy Hall in a free concert sponsored by the UW-Madison School of Music.
Working under the direction of Richard Davis, the Black Music Ensemble “is a small, audition-only collection of both vocalists and instrumentalists devoted to studying the music of black composers; namely, jazz composers,” according to a description on the ensemble’s web page.
During this concert, the 12-member Black Music Ensemble will perform works by Wayne Shorter, Nat King Cole, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, John Coltrane and many others. The band currently consists of four vocalists, one of whom doubles on trombone; sax, guitar, bass, upright bass, drums and three pianists.
Award-winning Broadway performers. Mazzie and Danieley will work with three singers: Tamara Brognano, who played Mother in the Four Seasons Theatre’s production of Ragtime; Lorah Haskins, a recent college graduate; and Nathan Fossbinder, a sophomore at La Follette High School who is working on a production of the new Kander and Ebb musical, “Curtains.”
Abrams says, “Mazzie and Danieley will mostly do ‘acting in a song’ work with the singers and help them with how to approach a song, the journey, etc.” At the end of the masterclass, they will do a short Q and A about their careers, performing on Broadway, and “anything anyone ever wanted to know about the business.”
The masterclass is a free event and open to the public.
Audience members should enter through the main Wisconsin Union Theater lobby.
Mazzie and Danieley will be in Madison to perform “An Evening of Broadway” onstage with the Four Seasons Theatre orchestra and chorus conducted by Abrams. This one night only special event which features music from Rodgers & Hammerstein, Kander & Ebb, Ahrens & Flaherty, and more, will be presented at 8 p.m. Friday, February 19th in the Wisconsin Union Theatre, 800 Langdon Street. Tickets are $18-$35 ($10 for UW-Madison students with a valid i.d.). For ticket information, call the Wisconsin Union Theater Box office at (608) 265-2787.
Enjoy an evening of dancing and great music with friends — all at no charge! — when Ladies Must Swing performs at a free concert at the Monona Terrace Exhibition Hall A from 5:30 p.m. until 7 p.m. on Wednesday, February 17th as part of the Winter/Spring 2010 “Tunes at Monona Terrace” series.
Ladies Must Swing is an all-woman band that enjoys “a sense of reprising the great tradition of “Girl Bands” from the 30s and 40s (see “Some Like It Hot”).”
Themed menu specials, snacks, beer, cocktails, and soft drinks are available for purchase beginning at 5 p.m.
Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center is pleased to help sponsor this program, as well as numerous other free events made available to the public each year. Parking is available for $4 in the Monona Terrace parking ramp at One John Nolen Drive. For further information call (608) 261-4000 or visit the Monona Terrace website.
Flutist Dawn Lawler and pianist Ina Selvelieva will perform music by Otar Taktakishvili, Pancho Vladigerov and Francis Poulenc. Lawler at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, February 16th in Morphy Hall in a free concert sponsored by the UW-Madison School of Music.
Lawler and Selvelieva will joined by bassoonist Marc Vallon for “Four Pieces” by Charles Koechlin, and by mezzo soprano Jamie Van Eyck and cellist Eleanor Christman Cox for “Chansons Madécasses” by Maurice Ravel.
Dawn Lawler is artist in residence and lecturer in flute at UW-Madison, where she is serving as the interim flutist with the Wingra Woodwind Quintet. Ina Selvelieva teaches piano at UW-Madison, where she received the DMA degree in piano in 2007.
Morphy Hall is located in the Mosse Humanities Building, 455 North Park Street.
The Madison Mellophonium Jazz Orchestra will make its debut with two performances at the First United Methodist Church, 302 Wisconsin Avenue at 7 p.m. on Saturday, February 20th and 1 p.m. Sunday, February 21st.
Rand Moore of Drums n’ Moore will be bringing in Joel Kaye (saxophonist with Johnny Richards and Stan Kenton). This concert is a tribute to past and present Jazz Orchestra Directors, Dennis Oliver (Madison Jazz Orchestra) and Jeff Peronto (Jeff Peronto Jazz Orchestra/30+ years as MATC Jazz Band Director). Former members of these director’s jazz orchestras, including Rand Moore, will be participating.
According to the group’s press release, “The music of Johnny Richards (My Fair Lady-My Way) and Stan Kenton (West Side Story) will be featured at this event. This music is rarely played, especially the West Side Story since it has been locked inside the walls of a University Music library and off limits to the public for the last 45 years. Joel Kaye has secured these charts for a limited time and will bring them to Madison for this event.”
Tickets to these concerts are tickets are $10 in advance and $15 at the door. Tickets for students with a valid i.d. are $5. Advance tickets may be purchases at B-Side Records 436 State Street; Maria’s Pizza, 134 South Main, Oregon; and Drums n’ Moore, 6033 Monona Drive.
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As part of the Students Ensembles series, the Chamber Orchestra will perform a free concert at 1 p.m. on Saturday, February 14th in Mills Hall.
The concert program will feature “Chamber Symphony No. 2″ by Arnold Schoenberg; “Concerto No. 3 for French horn,” K. 447 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with horn soloist Bernhard Scully; and “Symphony No. 103″ (“Drumroll”) by Franz Joseph Haydn.
Scully, a UW-Madison alumnus, is currently the principal horn of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra.
Solo bassoonist Nadina Mackie Jackson will perform at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, February 8th at Morphy Hall in a free concert sponsored by the UW-Madison School of Music.
Jackson is one of the world’s leading bassoonists and has produced seven solo recordings ranging from unaccompanied baroque to contemporary concerti. She is co-director with Guy Few of the Grand River Baroque Festival and principal bassoon of the Toronto Chamber Orchestra, the Group of Twenty-Seven and the Aradia Baroque Ensemble.
Monday evening’s program features works by Shostakovich, Weber, Saint-Saens, Tansman, Prokofiev, Christopher Wiles and Mathieu Lussier.
Morphy Hall is located in the Mosse Humanities Building, 455 North Park Street.
During February, you can see The Cat’s Pajamas, the talented and exciting Madison-based a cappella vocal band, for $15 or less as they make their 2010 High School Tour, prior to moving to The Dutton Family Theater in Branson in March, where tickets are bound to be considerably more expensive.
Not far beyond the Madison city limits, many high school auditoriums have been replaced by performing arts centers offering excellent sight lines, acoustics, and technical equipment. Add free parking and generally low ticket prices and you have multiple reasons to consider enjoying an evening of entertainment in Middleton, Oregon, or maybe Lodi or Evansville.
If you’re not familiar with The Cat’s Pajamas, here’s a bit of history from their website: “Since their inception in 2005, The Cat’s Pajamas have participated in the tv show The Next Great American Band, where they advanced to the top 30 bands out of a field of 14,000. They also finished in the top 10 for the national Oreo Cookie Jingle Competition hosted by Randy Jackson, have been seen on the Oprah Winfrey Show, have two full length albums, and have toured internationally as guest entertainers on multiple cruise lines.”
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