Dear Midsummer’s Music Friends, What do you do when a pandemic strikes? That was the question we were all grappling with a year ago when the unthinkable happened. Our lives shut down and we were consumed by worry about how to keep ourselves healthy and safe. After a few months,… [Read More]

Midsummer’s Music will present live, in-person concerts this summer for those who wish to attend. Additional virtual performances will also be offered. With Ludwig van Beethoven reaching the age of 250 this past December 15th, we will be celebrating the great master’s life with some of his most interesting and… [Read More]

Greater Green Bay Community Foundation selects the Griffon to receive grant Midsummer’s Music’s resident string quartet, the Griffon, was recently awarded a generous grant from the Irene Daniell Kress Fund of the Greater Green Bay Community Foundation for its work with older adults and B Double Sharp program recipients for… [Read More]

Composer-in-Residence Program Expands Midsummer’s Music announces a new program designed to provide a platform for more talented young composers that expands on its Composer-in-Residence Program instituted in 2016 with the appointment of Jacob Beranek. The Emerging Composers Initiative adds two Program Fellows to its Composer-in-Residence position. All three appointees will… [Read More]

Engaging Youth in Classical Compositions Classical music, sadly, remains a foreign language to many youngsters today. With budget cuts and closures, schools can’t introduce students to the tenses and tempos of the intimate compositions renowned as chamber music. For most teens and tweens in Northeast Wisconsin, however, there is more… [Read More]