Wed, July 19, 2023 by Jim Berkenstock Who was the most precocious classical composer of all? Many would reasonably say Mozart, but I guess my title gives away my choice. This is not to say that Mendelssohn was a better composer than Mozart. It is just a comparison of their quickness in developing a mature style. Perhaps […]
Midsummer’s Music Masters Schubert’s ‘Mountain’
Schubert’s Piano Trio in B-flat is one of two monumental trios he wrote at the height of his creativity. It’s a mountain to climb, but the view is worth it! Sister Bay, Wis. (July 17, 2023) – Midsummer’s Music, Wisconsin’s oldest summer chamber music series, continues its 2023 concert season with a program celebrating one of […]
Midsummer’s Music Awarded Women’s Fund Grant
Midsummer’s Music received $2,500 from the Women’s Fund of Door County to support performances with music by women composers. Sister Bay, Wis. (July 15, 2023) – Midsummer’s Music is pleased to announce that it was awarded a $2,500 grant from the Door County Community Foundation’s Women’s Fund in support of its dedication to presenting music by […]
Eric Lewis Meets Will Healy
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 […]
Midsummer’s Music Pairs Mendelssohn, Haydn, Moeran
Sister Bay, Wis. (July 10, 2023) – Midsummer’s Music, Wisconsin’s oldest summer chamber music series, continues its 2023 concert season with a sumptuous program featuring electrifying string quintets by Felix Mendelssohn and Michael Haydn – Franz Joseph Haydn’s much-neglected younger brother – along with a beautifully evocative oboe quartet by British composer Ernest John Moeran. Moeran’s Phantasy Quartet for […]
Pianist Jeannie Yu Takes on Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto
Sister Bay, Wis. (July 5, 2023) – Midsummer’s Music earns high praises for presenting works by lesser-known composers – especially composers of color and women composers – often alongside household names like Bach and Mozart. With its Emperor Concerto & Jeannie Yu program, audiences will hear one exhilarating quartet by a relatively obscure composer, backed up by sumptuous […]
Midsummer’s Music Presents Eric Lewis, Will Healy, Four World Premieres
Virtuoso guitarist and Door County favorite Eric Lewis teams up with Midsummer’s Composer-in-Residence Will Healy to present two incredible concerts with four world premieres. Sister Bay, Wis. (July 3, 2023) – Midsummer’s Music, Wisconsin’s oldest summer chamber music series, continues its 2023 concert season with an electrifying program starring Door County favorite Eric Lewis, a virtuoso […]
Emotional Vibrations
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
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 […]
Remembering Rachmaninoff, Remembering Tchaikovsky
On the occasion of Rachmaninoff’s 150th birthday, Midsummer’s Music celebrates with his Trio élégiaque, dedicated to his mentor, Tchaikovsky, with the inscription, “In Memory of a Great Artist.” The “Great Artist” is represented on this program by his First String Quartet. Sister Bay, Wis. – June 16, 2023 – Midsummer’s Music, Wisconsin’s oldest summer chamber music […]
