C. Rasmussen Studio Recital — Strings
October 11, 2025 3:00 PMString studio recital featuring the students of WCM faculty Charlie Rasmussen.
📍 McIntosh Goodrich Mansion — Helen Bader Recital Hall
Concert Companion Series: Florentine Opera – Tales of Hoffmann
Concert Companion Series: Florentine Opera – Tales of Hoffmann
Event Date: February 21, 2026 3:00 PM
Led by members of WCM’s faculty artists and held at the historic McIntosh-Goodrich Mansion on Prospect Avenue, these classes provide a world of insight into the composers and music of a featured performance. Members of the class will learn about, listen to, and discuss the music for three weeks before experiencing it in person – together! Wine and cheese are offered at most classes, and the cost of ticket is included in the cost of enrollment.
Florentine Opera – Tales of Hoffmann
Program: Offenbach (Tales of Hoffman)
Class Led by: Phillip Pearl
Class Dates: Feb 21, Feb 28, & Mar 7 (3:00pm) 📍 McIntosh Goodrich Mansion
Performance: Mar 13 (7:30pm) 📍 Marcus Performing Arts Center
Description: The Tales of Hoffmann (Les Contes d’Hoffmann) is a haunting opera that dives into the stormy, occasionally uncanny, love life of poet Hoffmann. In a series of flashbacks (and perhaps a bit too much wine), Hoffmann recounts three romantic escapades, each with its own fantastical twist—and each disastrously interrupted by a shadowy villain determined to ruin his good time. The opera is a blend of romance, heartbreak, and just the right dose of the surreal, proving that in Hoffmann’s world, if something seems too good to be true, it probably involves an evil doppelgänger or a mechanical doll.
Registration: $60 (includes three class meetings and a concert ticket) – Click Here to Register
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October Jazz Jam Session
October 15, 2025 7:00 PM📍 McIntosh Goodrich Mansion
Join us for WCM’s Jazz Jam — free and open to all skill levels! Bring your instrument, your voice, or just enjoy the music as students, local musicians, and jazz fans come together for an evening of improvisation and community.
This event is free and open to the public.
October Music Hour #1
October 18, 2025 12:30 PMPerform for an audience in a relaxed, friendly setting and grow your performance skills alongside fellow musicians.
📍 McIntosh Goodrich Mansion – Helen Bader Recital Hall
SIGN UP THROUGH YOUR PRIVATE LESSON TEACHER
FREE & OPEN to All Experience Levels!
October Music Hour #2
October 18, 2025 3:00 PMPerform for an audience in a relaxed, friendly setting and grow your performance skills alongside fellow musicians.
📍 McIntosh Goodrich Mansion – Helen Bader Recital Hall
SIGN UP THROUGH YOUR PRIVATE LESSON TEACHER
FREE & OPEN to All Experience Levels!
Hellerman/Hahn/Notestine Studio Recital — Voice
October 24, 2025 5:30 PMVoice studio recital featuring the students of WCM faculty Martha Hellermann, Luke Hahn, and Elizabeth Notestine.
📍 McIntosh Goodrich Mansion — Helen Bader Recital Hall
This event is free and open to the public.
Concert Companion Series: MSO – Paul Lewis Plays Grieg
October 25, 2025 3:00 PMLed by members of WCM’s faculty artists and held at the historic McIntosh-Goodrich Mansion on Prospect Avenue, these classes provide a world of insight into the composers and music of a featured performance. Members of the class will learn about, listen to, and discuss the music for three weeks before experiencing it in person – together! Wine and cheese are offered at most classes, and the cost of ticket is included in the cost of enrollment.
Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra – Paul Lewis Plays Grieg
Program: Rautavaara (Cantus Arcticus), Grieg (Piano Concerto), Nielsen (Symphony No. 4, “The Inextinguishable”)
Class Led by: Juan Pablo Horcasitas
Class Dates: Oct 25, Nov 1, & Nov 8 (3:00pm) 📍 McIntosh Goodrich Mansion
Performance: Nov 15 (7:30pm) 📍 Bradley Symphony Center
Description: “Music is Life, and like it, it is inextinguishable.” Composer Carl Nielsen penned these words across the top of the score of his fourth symphony, now best known as “The Inextinguishable” — the fourth sets out to “express what we understand by the spirit of life or manifestations of life, that is: everything that moves, that wants to live.” Nielsen never provides a clear story, instead unleashing the music to express a range of pure feeling, both primal and pleasantly chaotic; guest conductor Rune Bergmann is perfectly suited for this ambitious symphony.
Registration: $60 (includes three class meetings and a concert ticket) – Click Here to Register
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