Name: Masur Conducts Brahms
Start: 2025-06-06T11:15:00-05:00
End: 2025-06-06T13:15:00-05:00
Location: Bradley Symphony Center

Ken-David Masur, conductor
Susan Babini, cello
Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra
at the Bradley Symphony Center
The MSO’s own principal cellist Susan Babini performs an unforgettable concerto by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Aaron Jay Kernis, whose expansive and haunting solo cello concerto Colored Field was inspired by a visit to a former WWII concentration camp. Later, Music Director Ken-David Masur conducts Brahms’ First Symphony, whose brilliance helped the composer step out of Beethoven’s shadow; critic Eduard Hanslick said of Brahms’s First that “...even the layman will immediately recognize it as one of the most distinctive and magnificent works of the symphonic literature.”
Single tickets on sale August 12, 2024.