The Midday

Members of WYSO round out the school year with works for wind quintet and piano quartet by Paul Hindemith, Anton Reicha, Beethoven and Schumann.

A student at Logan High School in La Crosse, André Peck has won the 2025 Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra 2025 Young Artist Concerto Competition and the 2026 Final Forte competition. During […]

Wes Luke and Robin Ryan, violins, Sahada Buckley, viola, and Benjamin Whitcomb, cello, with violist Kayla Schultz perform an all-English program of music by Arnold Bax, Benjamin Britten, and Ralph […]

Ying Li stops by the Midday to describe the love letter that Robert Schumann wrote in the form of his one and only piano concerto. She’ll be playing the Piano […]

In Mozart’s comic opera Cosi fan Tutte tenor Martin Luther Clark sings the role of Ferrando, who bets that his beloved will remain faithful. A good deal of confusion and […]

In advance of their performances with the Madison Symphony, the globe-trotting foursome, John Dearman, Matt Grief, Bill Kanengiser and Douglas Lora, played their arrangements of popular pieces by Aaron Copland […]

The charismatic virtuoso discusses the upcoming “Dueling Violins” he’ll perform with Gilles Apap and the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra and shares insights into his recordings of works by Astor Piazzolla and […]

For St. Patrick’s Day the trio returns to the Midday to perform several traditional Irish songs and dances, including “Two Sisters,” “Battering Ram,” “Leitrim Fancy,” “Butlers of Glen Ave,” “Kitty […]

The famed violinist returns to the Midday to tell us about performing one of the 20th century’s greatest works–the Violin Concerto of Erich Wolfgang Korngold. The composer wrote some of […]

Scott Gendel, composer of "Everlasting Faint," played music from the new opera, and spoke of the inspiration behind it. The Madison Opera will perform world debut of "Everlasting Faint" takes place on February 13th and 15th at the Capitol Theater.