October 13, 2007
A NEW TASTE
8:00 p.m.



St. Matthew's Evangelical Lutheran Church
1615 Wauwatosa Avenue, Wauwatosa

featuring violin soloist Gerald Loughney

We have used the beautiful Scottish Fantasy by Max Bruch as our springboard for a journey into the Scottish side of music.  Special guest composer Sean O’Boyle will also be venturing into his compositional kitchen to prepare a tribute to Gaelic cuisine – Haggis!

Repertoire

Haggis - Sean O’Boyle

Scottish Fantasy - Max Bruch

Irish Tune from County Derry and Molly on the Shore - Percy Grainger

Four Scottish Dances - Malcolm Arnold

An Orkney Wedding and Sunrise - Peter Maxwell Davies

The magnificent dome of the Basilica will ring with music both old AND new as we are joined by the St. Matthew’s Evangelical Lutheran Church and Lutheran A Capella choirs for our annual Christmas celebration!

In addition to the concerto chosen by our winner, we commemorate the 100th anniversary of Edvard Grieg’s death by taking you on a trip from Norway all the way to the hostile wasteland of the South Pole with Ralph Vaughan-Williams’ haunting Symphony No. 7 (“Sinfonia Antartica”), which chronicles the doomed voyage of explorer Robert Scott.

The CCO and the Master Singers of Milwaukee will bring our 2007-08 season to a close with Leonard Bernstein’s visionary effort to explore the spiritual crisis of his time.