Archive for Tag: Jean Berkenstock

Captivating Classical Chamber Music!

Our world-class musicians are from organizations such as the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Pro Arte Quartet, Milwaukee Symphony and the Marlboro Music Festival, and perform with faculty from notable Midwestern universities. Over 25 chamber music concerts are presented each year at unique venues throughout Door County.  Jim and Jean Berkenstock… [Read More]

Interpretation: Looking Between the Notes for the Shape of Music

We recently played a program called “Blessed Spirits” named as a result of the first piece by Christoph Willibald Gluck entitled the “Dance of the Blessed Spirits” from his opera Orfeo. It featured our flutist, Jean Berkenstock, in one of the most sublime and hauntingly beautiful instrumental solos in the entire operatic… [Read More]

Grabbed by Gaubert

Sometimes, it seems the more you learn, the more you know how much you don’t know. I realized this in a particularly deflating way when I recently discovered something that had been right under my nose for a very long time! It is no news to most of you that I am… [Read More]