Midsummer’s Music 2018 summer season concludes with the Creative Aquifers program, featuring music by Samuel Barber, Paul Schoenfield, and Franz Schubert, and vocals by international mezzo-soprano star Susan Platts. The organization is pleased to be among the businesses that are promoting the Door County Community Foundation’s Celebrate Water initiative. This program is the fourth of […]
Midsummer’s Music Plays Czechs Smetena, Dvořák, and Beranek
After a brief break, Midsummer’s Music 2018 summer season resumes with A Czech Life program, featuring music by Bedřich Smetana, Antonín Dvořák, and Midsummer’s own Composer-in-Residence, Jacob Beranek. Though few in number, Smetana’s chamber music compositions play an important role in his musical output. The piece Midsummer’s ensemble will play is a string quartet titled […]
Midsummer’s Music Cellist Walter Preucil Plays 500th Concert
Midsummer’s Music Cellist Walter Preucil celebrated his 500th concert with the organization on July 21 during the Bach at 333 program at the Old Gibraltar Town Hall in Fish Creek. In 1991, Walt joined the original Midsummer’s Music ensemble for the inaugural concerts that played at the homes of Diane and Peter Trenchard in Sister Bay […]
Midsummer’s Music Charges with Renewable Energy
The June/July portion of the Midsummer’s Music season rounds out with the Renewable Energy program. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joachim Nicolas Eggert, the unknown Swedish composer, and Joachim Raff, the remarkable German composer, all show that unmistakable ability to infuse their works with spirit, vitality, and raw energy. Works include: Mozart’s String Quintet No. 5, Eggert’s […]
Midsummer’s Music Gets Exotic
Midsummer’s Music continues its unique twist on the Million Dollar Quartet while adding a new program of exotic music. Midsummer’s Million Dollar Quartet is a hypothetical version of the 1956 impromptu jam session between Johnny Cash, Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins. Instead of Cash, Franz Joseph Haydn is on violin. Instead of Elvis, […]
Pro Arte Quartet to Perform at Egg Harbor’s New Kress Pavilion
Hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as “One of the greatest quartets of our time,” the Pro Arte Quartet will perform Saturday, May 26, at the new Kress Pavilion in Egg Harbor in a concert presented by Midsummer’s Music Ltd. This event marks the first of six concerts Midsummer’s Music will host this summer in […]
Midsummer’s Music Announces 2018 Summer Concerts
Door County’s Midsummer’s Music continues radically appealing concerts for the 28th summer season, with exciting opportunities to experience powerful music played by brilliant musicians in intimate settings throughout the county. The entire summer season includes nine unique programs in 37 concerts spanning a seven-week period. Midsummer’s Music programming incorporates a mix of well-known composers alongside […]
Midsummer’s Music Presents Two Free Holiday Concerts
Midsummer’s Music presents two free holiday concerts! The Hunt Quartet plays Schubert, Beethoven and holiday favorites. No reservations or tickets necessary. Come as you are.! Friday, December 15 7:00 pm – Sister Bay Moravian Church Saturday, December 16 3:00 pm – Hope UCC, Sturgeon Bay
Midsummer’s Music Presents the Hunt Quartet in Two Free Winter Concerts
Midsummer’s Music Ltd. presents the Hunt Quartet in two free winter concerts. The group plays Friday, December 15, at 7:00 pm at Sister Bay Moravian Church, and Saturday, December 16, at 3:00 pm at Hope United Church of Christ in Sturgeon Bay. The highly acclaimed group, which already played two excellent programs in Door County […]
Midsummer’s Music Presents the Hunt Quartet
Midsummer’s Music presents the Hunt Quartet in concert Saturday, September 16, at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Ephraim, Wis. The highly acclaimed group, which played a beautiful program in Sturgeon Bay last May, is the elite graduate string quartet for the Mead Witter School of Music. The evening’s repertoire includes Joseph Haydn’s String Quartet in […]
