Sponsored by Mary Ann & Peery Duderstadt The Women’s Fund of Door County is a supporting sponsor for this program. This program is inspiring, heart-rending, vivacious, captivating, and life-affirming. Sakari Vanderveer is one of the leading female black composers of our time and an inspiring leader in bringing young children to embrace playing string instruments. […]
Midsummer’s Music Celebrates 2024 Summer Season with Blowout Gala
The 2024 summer season concludes with the annual Labor Day fundraising gala, supporting the concerts, the musicians, and the staff of Midsummer’s Music. Sister Bay, Wis. (August 27, 2024) – Midsummer’s Music, Wisconsin’s oldest summer chamber music series, concludes its 34th season of presenting exceptional chamber music in the vacation paradise of Door County, Wisconsin. Concerts hailed […]
David Perry, Jeannie Yu—Chausson Concerto!
Sponsored by Sandy Zingler. Write On, Door County poet is Ed DiMaio. One of the most dramatic and rapturous works in the literature concludes our season. You will be swept away by Chausson’s surging and impulsive masterwork, expertly and passionately realized by our soloists, David Perry, violin, and Jeannie Yu, piano, framed by our string […]
Midsummer’s Music Concludes Stunning Summer Season with Eight Must-see Concerts
Sister Bay, Wis. (August 21, 2024) – Midsummer Music’s 2024 summer concert series ascended to new heights with enthusiastic audiences, a world premiere, and spectacular music performed by world-class musicians. Eight summertime concerts, including the annual Labor Day Gala, remain, starting August 25 and ending September 2. Violinist David Perry and pianist Jeannie Yu headline the […]
Labor Day Concert Series Promises Impulsive Masterwork, Captivating Programming, Beethoven’s Most Popular Piece
Three exhilarating programs consisting of eight thrilling concerts over nine days include works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Ernst von Dohnányi, Mélanie Bonis, Ernest Chausson, Théodore Dubois, John Ireland, and Sakari Dixon Vanderveer. Sister Bay, Wis. (August 6, 2024) – Midsummer’s Music concludes its impressive 2024 summer concert series with three exhilarating programs consisting of eight thrilling […]
Bruch and Brahms
Sponsored by Sandy Zingler. Write On, Door County poet is Stephanie Trenchard. When Brahms wrote his second string quintet, he thought it was a perfect way to end his career (he later was coaxed into creating a few more by a wonderful clarinetist). It is powerful, charming, intense, light-hearted, and – especially in its Hungarian […]
Bruch and Brahms
Sponsored by George & Julie Fiedler When Brahms wrote his second string quintet, he thought it was a perfect way to end his career (he later was coaxed into creating a few more by a wonderful clarinetist). It is powerful, charming, intense, light-hearted, and – especially in its Hungarian flavored finale – exuberant. When someone […]
Bruch and Brahms
Sponsored by Gretchen Courtney & Ed Reschka. Supporting sponsor Nicolet Bank. When Brahms wrote his second string quintet, he thought it was a perfect way to end his career (he later was coaxed into creating a few more by a wonderful clarinetist). It is powerful, charming, intense, light-hearted, and – especially in its Hungarian flavored […]
Dangerous Excellence
Column 7, July 30, 2024 by Jim Berkenstock The day following our recent “Grieg Piano Concerto with Jeannie Yu” program, I ran into one of the audience members who had been there. Harry (not his real name) said to me with a very serious look, “I’ve attended my last Midsummer’s Music concert!” I was too stunned […]
Bruch and Brahms
Sponsored by the Jean Berkenstock Family Fund When Brahms wrote his second string quintet, he thought it was a perfect way to end his career (he later was coaxed into creating a few more by a wonderful clarinetist). It is powerful, charming, intense, light-hearted, and – especially in its Hungarian flavored finale – exuberant. When […]
