Midsummer’s Music’s Griffon String Quartet Plays Mendelssohn and Shostakovich Cyclical Works The two compositions by Shostakovich and Mendelssohn are separated by more than 125 years. Sister Bay, Wis. – June 17, 2022 – The Griffon String Quartet, Midsummer’s Music’s engaging resident ensemble, headlines the third program of Midsummer’s 2022 exciting… [Read More]

Our English Connections program, which starts with the first of four concerts this Thursday, is “connected” largely by one person—Charles Villiers Stanford. Stanford and Edward Elgar were the two greatest English composers at the turn of the 19th into the 20th century. However, Stanford was also a great teacher who… [Read More]

Midsummer’s Music Performs 20th Century Composers with English Connections This program includes an unpublished quintet from Charles Villiers Stanford. Sister Bay, Wis. – June 10, 2022 – Midsummer’s Music continues its exciting 2022 concert season with the inspiring English Connections program featuring 20th century classical composers Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Ralph Vaughn… [Read More]

Greetings! And welcome to our new Midsummer’s Season for 2022. Around 2006, I began writing a weekly column for the Door County Advocate, which usually appeared in Key to the Door. That continued for about 10 years and resulted in over 130 columns. Starting with this message, I am going… [Read More]

40+ exciting, pulse-pounding, riveting concerts featuring world-class chamber musicians Sister Bay, Wis. – June 3, 2022 – Midsummer’s Music, Wisconsin’s oldest summer chamber music series, launches its 2022 concert season with a program celebrating the “unknown great” composers Friedrich Kiel and Joachim Raff. Few composers have been lifted to the… [Read More]