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Eric Lewis Meets Will Healy

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By Jim Berkenstock, Artistic Director, Midsummer’s Music 7-6-23 I imagine the title of our upcoming program creates a few questions among our followers. Who are these guys? And why? Those quite familiar with Midsummer’s Music know that Will Healy is our gifted composer-in-residence who has made quite a splash in our last two seasons with […]

Summer Memories

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By Coggin Heeringa, Interpretive Naturalist, Crossroads at Big Creek, Inc. Crossroads at Big Creek is the perfect place to make summer memories, and this week, the opportunities for making childhood memories abound. Aside from, say, Christmas, most of my childhood memories were made in the summer. I remember when my grandpa took my family to […]

Books Beat Boredom

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You’re never bored if you have the desire to write. The writer’s curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored. – Criss Jami By Jerod Santek, Founding & Artistic Director, Write On Door County July is full on monthly observations one might expect: National Blueberry Month, National […]

Open Door Bird Sanctuary Presentation at Crossroads

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By Coggin Heeringa, Interpretive Naturalist, Crossroads at Big Creek, Inc. As a part of the First Friday Series, Crossroads at Big Creek will host a family-friendly presentation by representatives from the Open Door Bird Sanctuary. They promise an up-close and personal experience with birds of prey.  The program will be offered at 6:30 p.m. at […]

Emotional Vibrations

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By Jim Berkenstock, Artistic Director, Midsummer’s Music Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) was born 150 years ago. We are celebrating this anniversary by playing one of his few chamber music works, Trio élégiaque No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 9, which contains the inscription, “In Memory of a Great Artist.” The “Great Artist” was his friend and mentor, Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky. […]

Midsummer’s Music: Women to be Heard

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By Allyson Fleck, Executive Director and Assistant Artistic Director, Midsummer’s Music “Too long denied sufficient hearings, these three women present contrasting styles and convincingly moving musical statements, full of power and élan, demanding that they be heard.” A coveted text in any musicologist’s library is the Cobbett Cyclopedic Survey of Chamber Music. Thanks to MM […]

Midsummer’s Music: Flair Fare

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By Jim Berkenstock, Artistic Director, June 10, 2023 “Opening with a Flair!” the program book reads. Okay, Great! “But Bartók and Fauré?” you say. So, let me explain. I understand that putting those two composers on the same program may seem strange, but there is reason behind my madness, which I think you will appreciate […]

Coming Out as a Writer

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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.   –Audre Lorde Recently, a member of one of our writing groups said, “You know, it was hard coming out as gay. It’s been just as hard — maybe even harder — to come out as a […]

Wisconsin had the second-best 10-year small business survival rate over the last decade

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Originally published by Wisconsin Public Radio (wpr.org) Wisconsin had the second-best 10-year small business survival rate in the nation over the last decade. Only Iowa had a better ranking. That’s according to a recent analysis from The Southern Bank Company, a financial institution based in Alabama that looked at data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor […]