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Beethoven’s groundbreaking Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica,’ headlines broadcast special By Ezra Wall March 31, 2026, Updated April 7, 2026 at 1:44 pm Members of the La Crosse Symphony Orchestra broke new ground when they took their seats for rehearsal on Nov. 12, 2025. Musical Director Alexander Platt had already spent years contemplating every detail about the work they would perform together in just four days, Symphony No. 3 in E-flat, Op. 55 “Eroica.” Platt has been with the orchestra for 16 years […]

by Mary Fairchild A listener who thinks she’s heard everything takes great pleasure in encountering two works completely new to her. For Saturday’s Maverick extravaganza, music director, Alexander Platt assembled forces from the Caroga Arts Collective (a group of young musical professionals who come from all over the country and gather in the summers at Caroga Lake in the Adirondacks), and three important soloists for Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings as well as music by Shostakovich and

At Maverick, there’s no replacement for live music by John Burdick July 27, 2022 in Art & Music Keeping in mind that I am simple rock guitarist, allow me to tell you a story. Beethoven began his career as a Mozart wannabe who made his way to Vienna to study with the wunderkind himself — teach me master, that I might surpass you faster — and, in my own Hollywood version, arrived just in time to

by Leslie Gerber Since the Music Director of Maverick Concerts, Alexander Platt, is a conductor, it’s understandable that he has wanted to bring his performing skills to the festival. As the leader of annual chamber orchestra concerts he ever pleases. Maverick seats only about 200 inside and about 100 outdoors, and therefore made do nicely with 16 players this year, most of them from the Caroga Arts Ensemble based in the Adirondacks. Still, even a small