July 2024
Beethoven, Haydn, and Schumann: Fairy Tales and Ghosts
Sponsored by the James & Nancy Huebner Charitable Fund Engage your imagination in the magic of music by three greats: Schumann, Haydn, and Beethoven. Schumann’s “Fairy Tales” is written for the same combination as Mozart’s “Kegelstatt Trio” (clarinet, viola, and piano) and is one of Schumann’s final compositions. He thought listeners would find it “highly romantic.” Beethoven’s “Ghost” gets its name from the haunted sound of the piano’s soft tremolando that underlies parts of the slow movement. Haydn’s Trio in…
Find out more »Midsummer’s Music Explores Mystical World of Schumann’s ‘Fairy Tales’ and Beethoven’s ‘Ghost’
Midsummer’s Music, Wisconsin’s oldest summer chamber music series, continues its 2024 concert season with a program featuring three great classical composers: Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Josef Haydn, and Robert Schumann. The program’s three performances run are at 7:00pm, July 5 at Shepherd of the Bay Lutheran Church in Ellison Bay, sponsored by the James & Nancy Huebner Charitable Fund; 7:00pm, July 6 at the Donald & Carol Kress Pavilion in Egg Harbor, sponsored by Joan & Stefan Anderson; and 5:00pm,…
Find out more »Bach to the Future
Sponsored by the MMG Foundation and Bob & Alice Chrismer Composer-in-Residence Will Healy returns with a free-wheeling program inspired by Bach. Selections from The Musical Offering and Will’s arrangement of Wachet auf ruft uns die Stimme lead to Bach-inspired works by Will himself. He is then joined by his colleague, violinist George Meyer, for their freshly inspired collaborations that remind us all of our debt to “The Old Wig” (as Bach’s son, Carl Philipp Emanuel affectionately called him). Our flutist, Heather Zinninger,…
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