Midsummer’s Music Awarded Women’s Fund Sustainability Grant

Midsummer’s Music Awarded Women’s Fund Sustainability Grant

Midsummer’s Music received $2,500 from the Women’s Fund of Door County to support music by women composers and performances with women musicians.

Sister Bay, Wis. – July 13, 2022 – Midsummer’s Music is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a $2,500 Sustainability Grant from the Women’s Fund of Door County in support of its dedication to presenting music by women composers and performances with women musicians. The grant was made possible from the following Door County Community Foundation funds: the Women’s Fund Endowment of Door County, the Margaret C. McGuire Fund, the Marion Peterson Memorial Fund, the Kirk and Donna Scattergood Family Fund, the Bev and Tom Lisle Fund, the Sally and Michael O’Brien Family Fund, the Dave and Lolly Ratajczak Fund, and the Carolyn Zahn Waxler & Morris Waxler Fund.

Midsummer’s Music, Wisconsin’s oldest summer chamber music series, excels in presenting works by lesser-known composers—often female composers and composers of color who have not been lifted to the pantheon of greatness that few composers attain, but whose works are some of the most inspired pieces of chamber music. For its 2022 summer season, Midsummer’s Music is presenting music by Laura Netzel, a 19th century Swedish composer who published under the pseudonym of N. Lago so as not to divulge her gender; Dame Ethel Smyth, a 19th century English composer whose grit and determination to succeed as a composer, conductor, and author led to being an active member of the suffragette movement; Louise Farrenc, a French composer who was the only woman to have been appointed professor at the Paris Conservatory in the 19th century; and Libby Larsen, a 20th century American composer whose oeuvre includes important works for orchestra, dance, opera, chamber, and solo performance.

Midsummer’s Music’s 2022 season ensemble is 55 percent comprised of women musicians: flautist Heather Yarmel, oboist Lindsay Flowers, clarinetist Alicia Lee, pianist Jeannie Yu, violinists Ann Palen, Eleanor Bartsch, Maynie Bradley, and Ji-Yeon Lee, and violists Sally Chisholm, Allyson Fleck, Mary Deck, and Blakeley Menghini.

Visit midsummersmusic.com to see the complete 2022 summer season schedule and to view the digital program book to learn more about the composers and musicians. Order tickets online or call 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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For calendar listings:

Coffee Talks

Coffee Talk programs are free, informal presentations on music topics by ensemble members. staff, and friends.

Saturday, July 23, 11:00am, Margaret Lockwood Gallery, Sturgeon Bay: Flautist Heather Zinninger Yarmel – Taoism and Alexander Technique in Music: A beginner’s journey to finding greater freedom in music-making

Tuesday, August 23, 2:00pm, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Sister Bay: Artistic Director Jim Berkenstock – Where Does Music Come From?

 

Trio Magic

Serenade, Op. 50 (1895)               Laura Netzel

Circulo, Op. 91  Joachim Turina

Trio in E-flat, Op. 100, D. 929      Franz Schubert

Friday, July 15, 7:00 pm, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Sister Bay

Saturday, July 16, 7:00 pm, Hope United Church of Christ, Sturgeon Bay

Sunday, July 17, 3:00 pm • Salon Concert, Trenchard Residence, Sister Bay

Thursday, July 21, 7:00 pm, Donald & Carol Kress Pavilion, Egg Harbor

 

Lush & Thrilling Romantic Poetry

Quartettsatz in C Minor, D. 703 Franz Schubert

Divertimento in E Major, Op. 53                Friedrich Gernsheim

Grand Quintetto in B-flat Major, Op. 34 Carl Maria von Weber

Wednesday, July 20, 7:00 pm, Sister Bay Moravian Church, Sister Bay

Friday, July 22, 7:00 pm, First Baptist Church, Sister Bay

Saturday, July 23, 7:00 pm, Hope United Church of Christ, Sturgeon Bay

Sunday, July 24, 5:00 pm, Woodwalk Gallery, Egg Harbor

 

Homeland Sentiments

Adagio from String Quartet in D Minor (1869)    Mykola Lysenko

Trio in C-sharp Major, Op. 100   Philipp Scharwenka

Quintet in A Major, Op. 81           Antonín Dvořák

Thursday, July 28, 7:00 pm, TBD

Friday, July 29, 7:00 pm, Donald & Carol Kress Pavilion, Egg Harbor

Saturday, July 30, 7:00 pm, Hope United Church of Christ, Sturgeon Bay

Sunday, July 31, 3:00 pm, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Sister Bay

 

Down Home & Heavenly

Divertimento No. 10 in F Major, K. 247   Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Rodeo Reina de Cielo (Rodeo Queen of Heaven)              Libby Larsen

Septet in E-flat Major, Op. 25     Ferdinand Ries

Sunday, August 21, 3:00 pm, Hope United Church of Christ, Sturgeon Bay

Wednesday, August 24, 7:00 pm, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Sister Bay

Thursday, August 25, 7:00 pm, Donald & Carol Kress Pavilion, Egg Harbor

Friday, August 26, 7:00 pm, Birch Creek: Juniper Hall, Egg Harbor

 

Quintet Elegance

Quintet in E Major, Op. 1             Dame Ethel Smyth

Quintet in D Major, D. 956           Franz Schubert

Saturday, August 27, 7:00 pm • Salon Concert, Courtney Residence, Sister Bay

Sunday, August 28, 5:00 pm, Woodwalk Gallery, Egg Harbor

Wednesday, August 31, 7:00 pm, Donald & Carol Kress Pavilion, Egg Harbor

Friday, September 2, 7:00 pm, Sister Bay Moravian Church, Sister Bay

 

A Date with Destenay (and Franck at 200)

Trio in E-flat Major, Op. 44           Louise Ferranc

Trio in E Minor, Op. 27   Edouard Destenay

Quintet in F Minor (1880)            César Franck

Thursday, September 1, 7:00 pm, Donald & Carol Kress Pavilion, Egg Harbor

Saturday, September 3, 3:00 pm, The Clearing Folk School, Ellison Bay

Sunday, September 4, 3:00 pm, Hope United Church of Christ, Sturgeon Bay

Monday, September 5, 3:00 pm • Labor Day Gala, Björklunden, Baileys Harbor