Sister Bay, Wis. (July 12, 2024) – 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 Grieg Piano Concerto program, audiences will hear a thrilling quartet by a relatively obscure female composer, backed up by sumptuous works from Giacomo Puccini and Edvard Grieg with virtuosa pianist Jeannie Yu.
After her triumphant performances last season of Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto, Yu returns this season to offer Grieg’s magnificent romantic treasure in a stunningly beautiful arrangement with string quartet. Puccini’s hauntingly beautiful Crisantemi opens the program, followed by Emilie Mayer’s G Minor String Quartet. Of the seven quartets she wrote during the Romantic period, it is the only one published in her lifetime. Her introduction of a Bach Chorale melody into the slow movement is spine-tingling and will make concertgoers crave more from her.
In addition to Yu, musicians on the Grieg Piano Concerto program are violinists David Perry, Dawn Wohn, and Sahada Buckley, violist Allyson Fleck, and cellist Paula Kosower.
Concerts are July 20 at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Sister Bay, sponsored by Kaye Rogers-Ketterling in memory of Marvin Ketterling; July 25 at the Donald & Carol Kress Pavilion in Egg Harbor, sponsored by Carmen & Gene Witt; July 26 at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Ephraim, sponsored by Barbara Gould; and July 27 at Muse in Sturgeon Bay, sponsored by the Anne & Richard Egan Charitable Fund and featuring Door County artist Angela Lensch. All four concerts are at 7:00pm. The Women’s Fund of Door County is a supporting sponsor for the program. The 2024 concert series is sponsored by the Jean Berkenstock Family Fund and the Susan DeWitt Davie Legacy Fund, and the season is dedicated to the memory of Jean Berkenstock.
A complete 2024 summer brochure can be downloaded at www.midsummersmusic.com.
Tickets are $39 for adults, $19 for students, and children 12 and under are free with an adult. Premium prices apply for special events. Flex Packs of six tickets for the price of five tickets are also available. Order tickets at www.midsummersmusic.com or by phone at (920) 854-7088.
Midsummer’s Music was co-founded in 1990 by Jim and Jean Berkenstock, long-time Door County summer residents and principal orchestral players with the Lyric Opera of Chicago. What began as two concerts among friends has become one of the Midwest’s most anticipated chamber music series, bringing thousands of chamber music enthusiasts from around the globe to the magical Door County Peninsula.
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