Two local arts organizations — one that performs classical music and the other that exhibits fine art — find themselves about to expand their reach to national and international audiences.
The Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, conducted by its musical director Andrew Sewell, has just released its third CD, which is its first recording to have a national and international distributor, the New York-based company VAI Records. The two-CD set features three early Mozart piano concertos — Nos. 6, 8 and 9 (“Jeunehomme”), called the “Salzburg Concertos” and composed in 1776, done with prize-winning soloist Adam Neiman — and the Symphony No. 38 “Prague” (1787). The recording was made in the Capitol Theater of the Overture Center, the WCO’s home venue, and was engineered by Madison-based Audio for the Arts.
The University of Wisconsin’s Chazen Museum of Art, in turn, has found itself the object of attention from two international art publishers that have expressed continuing interest in the museum’s world-class collection of 17th, 18th and 19th century colorful Japanese “ukiyo-e” (pictures of the floating world) woodblock prints.