SISTER BAY – Midsummer’s Music introduced the schedule for its thirty fourth season of chamber music live shows in intimate places throughout Door County, making it Wisconsin’s longest-running summer time chamber music sequence.
Because the time period “chamber music” signifies, the applications for these live shows function works performed by small teams, from trios to octets, in attention-grabbing cultural and scenic websites that embrace artwork galleries, museums, church buildings, historic websites and personal houses, with a number of providing views of Lake Michigan and the bay of Inexperienced Bay.
The composers vary from famed classical composers – Beethoven, Mozart, Bach and Dvorak are among the many many who will probably be heard this season – to feminine, lesser-known and up to date classical composers, together with Sakari Dixon Vanderveer and Midsummer’s composer-in-residence, Will Healy. The musicians taking part in them hail from skilled orchestras such because the Chicago Symphony, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Milwaukee Symphony, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, China Nationwide Symphony, Ravinia Pageant and the Professional Arte Quartet, amongst others.
This 12 months’s season is held in reminiscence of Midsummer’s co-founder Jean Berkenstock, the world-class flutist and behind-the-scenes mover and shaker of the group who died Oct. 3 at age 89. It options 11 totally different applications to be heard in a complete of 38 live shows from June 13 to Labor Day weekend.
Following the official season are a few mid-September live shows and the second annual Autumn Music Fest in October, these together with appearances by Memphis-based string instrumentalist Eric Lewis, Midsummer’s Griffon String Quartet and the world-renowned Professional Arte Quartet.
Among the many highlights of the season are the standard Opening Night time Gala live performance with particular visitor emcee Norman Gilliland of Wisconsin Public Radio, happening on the Kress Pavilion in Egg Harbor.
This system that includes composer-in-residence Healy, “Back to the Future,” has alternatives from J.S. Bach’s “The Musical Offering,” Healy’s association of Bach’s “Wachet auf ruft uns die Stimme” and “Root Position,” a Healy composition impressed by Bach and commissioned by Midsummer’s that pianist Healy will carry out with violinist George Meyer.
The “Bastille Day Celebration” options works by French composers Vincent d’Indy, Charles Bordes and Claude Debussy, with three of the 4 live shows of this program giving concertgoers the choice of tasting three wines cosen by sommelier Jay Hutchinson to pair with the music. Hutchison will probably be available to clarify the pairings, which is perhaps by the geographic areas of France or the moods created by the music.
Two particular live shows happen at personal residences, as chamber live shows had been held again within the day. The “Dvorak and Brahms” program has a June 29 live performance with dinner on the Wilson/Beck residence in Fish Creek, and the “Bruch and Brahms” program contains an Aug. 2 salon live performance with a grand gourmand reception on the Courtney/Reschka residence in Sister Bay.
And, similar to a gala opens the season, a gala closes it as properly, with the Sept. 2 Labor Day Gala at Bjorklunden in Baileys Harbor that includes longtime Midsummer’s and Professional Arte violinist David Perry and pianist Jeannie Yu taking part in Ernest Chausson’s Concerto for Violin, Piano, and String Quartet, Op. 21, together with a quintet by Théodore Dubois.
Tickets are $39 for adults, $19 for college students, free for ages 12 and youthful when accompanied by a paying grownup. Premium costs apply for opening night time, the dinner and salon/dwelling live shows, the wine pairing live shows and different particular occasions. Flex-packs of six tickets for the value of 5 are additionally obtainable. For tickets or extra data, name 920-854-7088 or go to midsummersmusic.com; a season brochure could be downloaded from the web site.
The Midsummer’s Music 2024 season (all instances 7 p.m. until famous in any other case):
- “Mozart, Mendelssohn, and Magic,” with works by Alice Verne-Bredt, Mozart and Mendelssohn: June 13, Opening Night time Gala with emcee Norman Gilliland, Kress Pavilion, Egg Harbor; June 15, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Sister Bay; 5 p.m. June 16, Hope United Church of Christ, Sturgeon Bay; June 18, Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Ephraim.
- “David Perry Leads Mendelssohn Octet, and More!” with octets by by Woldemar Bargiel and Mendelssohn: June 19, Björklunden, Baileys Harbor; June 21, Sister Bay Moravian Church; 5 p.m. June 23, Woodwalk Gallery, Egg Harbor; June 27, Kress Pavilion, Egg Harbor.
- “Dvořák and Brahms” with quintets by Dvorak and Brahms: June 22, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Sister Bay; June 28, Shepherd of the Bay Lutheran Church, Ellison Bay; June 29, dinner live performance on the Wilson/Beck residence, Fish Creek; 5 p.m. June 30, Hope United Church of Christ, Sturgeon Bay.
- “Beethoven, Haydn, and Schumann: Fairy Tales and Ghosts”: July 5, Shepherd of the Bay Lutheran Church, Ellison Bay; July 6, Kress Pavilion, Egg Harbor; 5 p.m. July 7, Hope United Church of Christ, Sturgeon Bay.
- “Bastille Day Celebration,” with works by Vincent d’Indy, Charles Bordes and Debussy: July 11, music/wine pairing live performance, Kress Pavilion, Egg Harbor; July 12, Sister Bay Moravian Church; July 13, music/wine pairing live performance, Björklunden, Baileys Harbor; 5 p.m. July 14, music/wine pairing live performance, Woodwalk Gallery, Egg Harbor.
- “Bach to the Future,” with works by J.S. Bach and Midsummer’s composer-in-residence Will Healy: July 18, Kress Pavilion, Egg Harbor; July 19, Shepherd of the Bay Lutheran Church, Ellison Bay; 5 p.m. July 21, Hope United Church of Christ, Sturgeon Bay.
- “Grieg Piano Concerto and Jeannie Yu,” with works by Puccini, Emilie Mayer and Mendelssohn’s Concerto in A Minor, Op. 16: July 20, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Sister Bay; July 25, Kress Pavilion, Egg Harbor; 5 p.m. July 26, Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Ephraim; July 27, Muse, Sturgeon Bay.
- “Bruch and Brahms” with a quartet by Adalbert Gyrowetz and quintets by Max Bruch and Brahms: 5 p.m. July 28, Woodwalk Gallery, Egg Harbor; Aug. 2, salon live performance with grand gourmand reception, Courtney/Reschka residence, Sister Bay; Aug. 3, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Sister Bay; 5 p.m. Aug. 4, Hope United Church of Christ, Sturgeon Bay.
- “Romance and Rapture,” with works by Sakari Dixon Vanderveer, Mélanie Bonis and Ernst von Dohnányi: Aug. 27, Birch Creek Music Efficiency Middle, Egg Harbor; Aug. 28, Björklunden, Baileys Harbor; 3 p.m. Aug. 31, The Clearing Folks College, Ellison Bay.
- “Beethoven Septet,” additionally with John Eire’s Sextet: 5 p.m. Aug. 29, Kress Pavilion, Egg Harbor; Aug. 30, Sister Bay Moravian Church; 5 p.m. Sept. 1, Woodwalk Gallery, Egg Harbor.
- “David Perry, Jeannie Yu: Chausson Concerto!” with a quintet by Théodore Dubois and concerto by Ernest Chausson: 5 p.m. Aug. 25, Hope United Church of Christ, Sturgeon Bay; 3 p.m. Sept. 2, Labor Day Gala, Björklunden, Baileys Harbor.
Contact Christopher Clough at 920-562-8900 or [email protected].
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