Midnight in Paris And Two Conductor Wannabes Two “Conductor Wannabe” Winners Mendelssohn:  Wedding March from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61 Schubert:  March Militaire for Orchestra Brahms:  Violin Concerto in D Major with Rachel Barton Pine, violin ———- Maurice Ravel (in celebration of the centenary of his birth): “The Dance Symphony” Menuet Antique Valses nobles […]

Free admission! Recommended $5 donation per person. Join members of the La Crosse Symphony Orchestra, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Hoeschler Quartet, Central High School Orchestra, and the BGC Free Violin Program for an evening of chamber music!   W.A. Mozart: String Quintet No. 4 in G Minor, K. 516, mvmts I & II Central High […]

Alex Chambers-Ozasky — LSO Assistant Principal Cello, and one of Orchestra’s brightest young musicians — revives one of the gems of the 18th century repertoire, from one of Italy’s great masters…..and framed by crowning masterpieces of his contemporaries: Haydn’s elegant and dramatic symphony, and Mozart’s sparkling Symphony No.29. The most famous of solo cello Suites […]

Two glorious masterworks from the late-Romantic era…..but one, a world premiere! Wisconsin-born American composer Daron Hagen’s extraordinary new orchestration of Johannes Brahms’ early Piano Quintet, which then became a Sonata for Two Pianos, fulfills Clara Schumann’s unfulfilled desire that her friend turn his quintet into a Symphony; the “Symphony No.0”, here in its first performance, […]

In another LSO tradition, our annual musical salute to our veterans once again brings together the favorite with the unfamiliar. Violinist Elisa Lee Koljonen — who amazed us back in 2021 with her reading of the romantic Violin Concerto of Samuel Barber — returns to La Crosse with a rarity: the Violin Sonata of Aaron […]

The wonderful Wisconsin-born soprano Emily Birsan — now one of Chicago’s indispensable classical artists — returns following her exquisite “St. Caecila Mass”  for another glorious French confection: Francis Poulenc’s fabulous setting of the GLORIA, written in 1960 for the Boston Symphony….and once again, our LSO Assistant Conductor James Wilson will assemble a magnificent symphonic chorus […]

Rising Stars, and Great Romantics: what could be better? Two top winners from the LSO’s annual Rising Stars young artist competition join the Orchestra in favorite movements from the concerto repertoire — with their bookends being two of the great Second Symphonies of the early Romantic Era: the Austrian Franz Schubert, and the German genius […]

Goldfinger, Lawrence of Arabia, Gone With the Wind — imagine some of the greatest scores of The Golden Age of Hollywood, paired with contemporary favorites like Harry Potter and Mission Impossible — and you have the perfect Movie Night at the La Crosse Symphony Orchestra! Once again, Dustin and Dominique Luecke are your hosts. To top it all […]

Once again the La Crosse Symphony Orchestra will finish out our season with another “over-the-top” orchestral journey. The young Russian phenomenon Andrey Gugnin — who, last season, entered our hearts with a magisterial rendition of the Grieg Piano Concerto, done miraculously with the LSO without rehearsal! — returns for what will no doubt be an […]