Concert Schedule

Southern Skies & Western Winds

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Saturday, February 18, 2012, 7:30 PM
Unitarian Universalist Church West
13001 West North Avenue, Brookfield

Hold on to your hat – you will fly around the world and back as MCA fills you with song from our southern and western neighbors! Hear pulsating rhythms from Haiti and Africa—neo-romantic canto from Argentina, Israel, and Spain—chanson from France—and lied from Germany. Southern Florida composer Paul Basler meets Western California poet Gabriel Navar in Cantos Alegres that will certainly inspire!

Eastern Voyages

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Saturday, April 14, 2012, 7:30 PM
Fox Point Lutheran Church
7510 North Santa Monica Blvd., Fox Point

MCA’s final stop in its travels takes in the haunting sounds of Eastern Europe, India, and Asia, with folk and classical music from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, China, India, Japan, and more. The Milwaukee Choral Artists will be your guide as you take in a rare side trip to hear Igor Stravinsky’s Four Russian Peasant Songs in his arrangement for women’s voices and four horns. A pre-concert lecture will take place at 7:00 p.m.

Water

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Saturday, August 27, 2011
Concert event starts at 7:00 p.m. on the river. Musicians arrive by boat at 7:30 p.m.
Indoor concert starts at 8:00 p.m. After party starts at 9:15 p.m.
Uihlein Hall, Marcus Center for the Performing Arts
929 North Water Street, Milwaukee, WI
Present Music’s 30th Anniversary Concert: A Free Concert for the City of Milwaukee

Present Music's “Water” concert pulls together Milwaukee's artistic, scientific, technological, business, and ecological partners in a free event celebrating Milwaukee's world-leading water resources. Present Music and the Milwaukee Choral Artists join forces in premiering a new piece by composer Kamran Ince that celebrates this precious resource.

Northern Lights

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October 22, 2011, 7:30 PM
St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church
1615 Wauwatosa Avenue, Wauwatosa

Sami joik from Finland—folk songs from Latvia, Sweden, Finland, and Canada—contemporary sacred song from Sweden—world music from Wales—scenes evocative of the Canadian aurora borealis and the Norwegian tundra—music from the indigenous peoples of Canada. Travel with MCA on a journey that takes its inspiration from the evocative music of northern lands. Enjoy a special post-concert talk back with the singers and conductor and share your musical travel experiences!

A Present Music Thanksgiving

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Sunday, November 20, 2011
St. John’s Cathedral
812 N. Jackson Street, Milwaukee, WI

MCA will join with Present Music and others to revive Henry Brant’s Wind, Water, Clouds & Fire. A Present Music commission and premiere in 2004, this piece features over 200 musicians and singers widely situated throughout the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist in a performance that evokes the scale and immensity of the natural world.

MCA Young Composer Composition Competition

The Milwaukee Choral Artists, one of just a handful of professional women’s vocal ensembles in the United States, invites entries for its Third Annual Young Composer Composition Competition.

Minneapolis resident Paul Rudoi won the 2010-11 competition with his composition, “Everyone Sang”, which was premiered on MCA’s April 9, 2011 concert “Soaring Heights—Music of Joy and Inspiration.”

Milwaukeean Joel Boyd won the 2009-10 competition with his composition, “August 1914,” which was premiered on MCA’s October 23, 2010 concert, “War and Peace.”

This year’s competition is open to applicants who are residents of the United States and born on or after January 1, 1981.

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