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  • Coffee Talk • Egg Harbor

    Kress Pavilion 7845 Church St., Egg Harbor, WI

    Presented by Will Healy – Composer-in-Residence 2:00pm, Donald & Carol Kress Pavilion, Egg Harbor Seating is on a first come, first served basis. This is not a ticketed event.

    Free

  • Coffee Talk • Sturgeon Bay

    Margaret Lockwood Gallery 7 S 2nd Ave., Sturgeon Bay, WI

    Presented by Flautist Heather Zinninger Yarmel – Taoism and Alexander Technique in Music: A beginner’s journey to finding greater freedom in music-making 11:00am, Margaret Lockwood Gallery, Sturgeon Bay Seating is on a first come, first served basis. This is not a ticketed event.

    Free

  • Coffee Talk • Sister Bay

    St. Luke’s Episcopal Church 2336 Canterbury Ln, Sister Bay, WI

    Presented by Composer and Midsummer's Music Board Member David Utzinger 2:00pm, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Sister Bay Seating is on a first come, first served basis. This is not a ticketed event.

    Free

  • Coffee Talk: Music Theory & Appreciation 101 • Sister Bay

    St. Luke’s Episcopal Church 2336 Canterbury Ln, Sister Bay, WI

    Coffee Talk programs are free, informal presentations on music topics by ensemble members, staff, and friends. Midsummer's Executive Director and Assistant Artistic Director Allyson Fleck presents Music Theory and Appreciation 101. Would you like to know what an overtone is? How do chords and key signatures affect the sound? What... [Read More]

  • Coffee Talk: The Healing Power of Sound with Maja Jurisic, MD

    Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Door County 10341 Water Street HWY 42, Ephraim, WI

    Coffee Talks are free, engaging, informal lectures on music topics by MM ensemble members, staff, and friends. From time immemorial, people have intuitively felt that sound promotes healing. For centuries, chants, songs, and various instruments have been used to restore harmony of body, mind and spirit. Nowadays, Midsummer’s Music lovers... [Read More]

  • Coffee Talk: Impressionism and Depression: Music and Society in France 1870–1914 with Peter Conroy, PhD

    Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Door County 10341 Water Street HWY 42, Ephraim, WI

    Coffee Talks are free, engaging, informal lectures on music topics by MM ensemble members, staff, and friends. We will examine the political and social situation in France from 1871 to 1914. This was the "Belle Epoque," a crucial period of progress, prosperity, and innovation in French technology, painting, and music.... [Read More]

  • Coffee Talk: J.S. Bach Reimagined: Generations of Transcriptions with Will Healy, Composer-in-Residence

    Shepherd of the Bay Lutheran Church 11836 WI-42, Ellison Bay, WI

    Coffee Talks are free, engaging, informal lectures on music topics by MM ensemble members, staff, and friends. For hundreds of years, composers have been taking the works of J.S. Bach and inspiring new creations for piano, orchestra, and countless other configurations of acoustic and electric instruments. In this Midsummer’s Coffee... [Read More]

  • Coffee Talk: Experience the Healing Power of Sound

    Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Door County 10341 Water Street HWY 42, Ephraim, WI

    Dr. Maja Jurisic: Experience the Sound of the Fibonacci Sequence Using crystal alchemy bowls and tuning forks to create the intervals, Dr. Maja Jurisic invites you to experience the Fibonacci sequence as a sound journey at the Midsummer’s Music Coffee Talk at 1 PM on June 21st at the Unitarian Universalist... [Read More]

  • Coffee Talk: Music and Revolution: 1789, 1848, 1917

    Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Door County 10341 Water Street HWY 42, Ephraim, WI

    Dr. Peter Conroy: “Music and Revolution: 1789, 1848, 1917” Dr. Conroy's presentation is about the connection between music and revolutions. This is not, however, a close or tight connection. There is no direct link between music and politics except perhaps rock and roll as the Czech playwright Tom Stoppard maintained.... [Read More]

  • Coffee Talk: The Physics of Music – Without the Equations

    The Clearing Folk School - Schoolhouse 12103 Garrett Bay Rd, Ellison Bay, WI

    Dr. Elmer Lewis: “The Physics of Music—Without the Equations” Have you ever wondered why lower pitched instruments are larger than higher pitched ones? Why are 10 violins not twice as loud as five? And why do several sound different – not just louder – than one? Why does a horn... [Read More]