Willy Street Chamber Players Offers Potent Mix

5th season of WSCP closes with divine Dvorak   The formula really hasn’t changed for the Willy Street Chamber Players since Paran Amirinazari convinced a few friends to play a little more summertime music five years ago: Keep it short (no intermission), program creatively, and then play the heck out of everything. The only thing…

DeMain’s Gift to “Lenny”

Madison Symphony joins the global celebrations of Leonard Bernstein’s 100th birthday   Leonard Bernstein’s 100th  birthday fell on August 25 of this year, but if you think the Madison Symphony and John DeMain were late to the party in celebrating this still larger-than-life icon, don’t fret. Some locales began after August 25, 2017—the year leading…

Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society Still Explosive

26th season continues to impress   Some things never change…when I first covered the Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society in 2011, I managed to attend five of their six programs—and still regretted missing the sixth. Last Friday (June 16) I attended the first of their second weekend of concerts, and was not surprised to hear…