Midsummer’s Music hosts “Coffee Talk” lectures on music topics by its ensemble members, staff, and friends during the summer season and occasionally throughout the year. The free lectures often relate to Midsummer’s Music concert themes, music pieces, and composers, and to Griffon String Quartet activities. Music as therapy is central to the Griffon String Quartet’s B Double Sharp programming for seniors, including people with Alzheimer’s and dementia, as well as their caregivers.

From time immemorial, people have intuitively felt that sound promotes healing. For centuries, chants, songs, and various instruments have been used to restore harmony of body, mind, and spirit. Nowadays, Midsummer’s Music and Griffon String Quartet lovers have experienced the health-promoting frequencies of glorious music every time they’ve attended a concert.

Dr. Maja Jurisic has long believed that the mechanistic model of health she learned in medical school is too narrow. She has found that sound offers a pathway to inner balance that is accessible to everyone and loves to share the science and art of sound healing.

Experience this as she plays her crystal alchemy singing bowls. Since breath is the language of the body, learn how to use yours to change your physiologic state (it’s like a superpower you never knew you had). Be ready for some fun toning with the bowls and retune, refresh and restore body, mind, and spirit as your cells respond to the resonant frequencies of the sounds. Leave feeling reconnected with joy and wonder.

The Healing Power of Sound Coffee Talk is at 10:00am on June 14, at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Ephraim. Seating is limited. Please reserve tickets at midsummersmusic.com or (920) 854-7088.

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.

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.