Midsummer’s Music, Door County’s premiere chamber music series, debuts a virtual concert season August 5, featuring music by Haydn, Tchaikovsky, and Widor.
Titled Restless Passion, the program highlights music of both Haydn and Tchaikovsky, which is often animated by the folk musics with which they were familiar. Working within fairly conventional forms, they used these elements to stir passion, create longing, and instill a sense of restlessness – Haydn with his Gypsy finale to his G Major Trio and Tchaikovsky with the shifting meters of the Scherzo in his Second Quartet, the dissonant beginning, and the proud and ebullient folk-like melodies of his finale. Widor’s calming and charming Sèrènade is the perfect meditative antidote.