Arts, Culture & Entertainment
Over the last twenty years Milwaukee's arts and cultural community has truly blossomed and become nationally recognized as an innovative leader. Milwaukee has not one, but two opera companies. It is also home to a ballet company, a symphonic orchestra, art museums, galleries and numerous professional theatres. In addition to all of the artistic venues, Milwaukee is home to the world-renowned Milwaukee Public Museum and one finest zoos in the United States, the Milwaukee County Zoo.
The Calatrava addition to the Milwaukee Art Museum, named the Best Design of 2001 by Time Magazine, is internationally recognized.
The Milwaukee area also supports an abundance of individual artists whose work is shown nationally and internationally. The vitality of Milwaukee's cultural scene is enhanced by a strong entertainment life from music to gaming at Potawatomi Bingo Casino. Recognized for Summerfest, the mid-summer music festival selected as Music Festival of the Year in 2001, Milwaukee is often described as a city of festivals with numerous ethnic and neighborhood celebrations held throughout the year.
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Present Music, Milwaukee's nationally & internationally acclaimed new music ensemble, is the proud recipient of the 2003-04 Chamber Music America/American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Award for Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music.
The CMA/ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Programming are presented annually to ensembles, presenters and festivals that demonstrate a commitment to contemporary chamber music programming. Emphasis is given to performances of music written after 1980.
Founded in 1982, Present Music reaches a large & diverse audience with imaginative new music performances. The
organization commissions, performs and records the music of living composers. www.presentmusic.org.
