Madison Symphony Orchestra
- Madison Symphony Orchestra
The Madison Symphony Orchestra (MSO) is an American orchestra in Madison, Wisconsin. Its conductor is John DeMain, who began his 14th season with the orchestra in the fall of 2007. It was founded in 1925 as a small community ensemble and is now a full-sized orchestra.
The Madison Symphony Orchestra is a remarkable orchestra, having been favorably compared with Leipzig, Germany's "Gewandhaus Orchestra" by the New York Times as well as receiving the accolades of such artists as guest conductor Vladimir Spivakov and pianist Emmanuel Ax, who both were engaged most recently for separate concerts in the 2007-2008 season.
The Madison Symphony currently performs in Madison's "Overture Hall" one of two theaters in Madison's "Overture Center for the Arts", a gift given to Madison by longtime M.S.O. patrons Jerome Frautschi and his wife, Pleasant Rowland Frautschi. At the time of their gift, The Frautschis held the distinction of having given the largest gift ever given to the performing arts by a single doner in American history, actually exceeding the entire budget of the "National Endowment for the Arts". Their gift in turn inspired a wave of gifts to the performing arts nationwide. Overture Hall has been described as "one of the acoustically finest halls in America" by guest artists, conductors, and visiting shows alike; and among other notable features the hall possesses the magnificent "Overture Concert Organ", custom built for the Overture Center by renowned organ builder, Johannes Klais {orgelbau} of Bonn, Germany. At twenty tons, the Klais organ is the largest movable object in any theater in America, with a capability to move forward and back into storage on a set of railroad tracks. It provides the orchestra with superior augmentation to such works as Richard Strauss' "Also Sprach Zarathustra" or Gustav Holst's "The Planets".
The Madison Symphony Orchestra may best be described by a comment made by a well respected guest conductor and overheard in passing following a recent MSO concert: "You don't have to go to Europe or wait at Carnagie Hall to hear a great German orchestra, a plane ticket to Madison can put you in the same place".
External links
* [http://www.madisonsymphony.org/ Madison Symphony Orchestra official site]
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