Concert Highlights
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Short clips from five performances 9/18 - 11/19
A montage of still photos and sound clips from five concerts, rehearsals and children’s programs. Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, Britten, Vivaldi, Gershwin and Dvořák.
Gershwin's "An American in Paris" 11/3/19
Video montage of excerpts from our Veterans Concert performance of George Gershwin’s “An American in Paris.”
Gershwin described his 1928 composition as “…the impressions of an American visitor in Paris as he strolls about the city, listens to the various street noises, and absorbs the French atmosphere.”
Concert at Holy Hill, May 2019
Enjoy a few highlights (video) from the final Kettle Moraine Symphony concert of the 2018-19 season was performed in the resounding space of the Basilica at Holy Hill on May 5, featuring the Moraine Chorus and guest vocal soloists from the greater Milwaukee area.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Vesperae solennes de confessore (1780) and Exsultate, jubilate (1773)
Morten Lauridsen: Lux Aeterna
Student Collaboration Project February 2019
In a concert of Russian music, West Bend High School Chamber Orchestra students played side by side with KMS musicians on Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings in C Major, Op.48 in February 2019.
Student side-by-side project, in concert, February 23, 2019
"Play Me a Story" September 2018
The whole family was entertained by music they know well, from John Williams’ scores for the Star Wars movies. Then, adults were mesmerized by Scheherazade and her Tales of 1000 Nights.
Orchestra students from West Bend’s Badger and Silverbrook middle schools entertained audience members in the lobby prior to the concert.
A very short clip from the first rehearsal of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade
Honoring Veterans November 2017
Judge Andrew Gonring narrated Copland’s Lincoln Portrait and Turrin’s Civil War Suite. Milwaukee Symphony cellist, Madeleine Kabat, performed Elgar’s WWII-influenced Cello Concerto in E minor, and guest principal violinist, Elizabeth Zempel, soloed on Three Pieces from Schindler’s List. American Legion Post 486 served as Color Guard.
Armed Forces Salute, arr. Robert Lowden
