We’re back! All of a sudden, we have two weeks until Labor Day and three Midsummer’s Music programs on the board. We opened the first program, The Poetry of David Perry, Sunday (Aug. 23), which features David in the spectacular Poeme by Ernest Chausson. There are still three more performances… [Read More]

In our program that just closed, “Passionate Perspectives,”we explored the impulse to incorporate national musical elements as a reaction to the pervasiveness of stifling imperialism, especially in the case of the Hapsburg Regime in the 19th century. In our program that opens tonight (Thursday), we explore another kind of reaction,… [Read More]

Our most recent program featured the music of Mozart, Haydn, and Wranitzky – composers steeped in the late 18th century Viennese style. They lived and worked within the Hapsburg Empire, which was seated in Vienna but ruled vast areas and cultures for hundreds of years. At first known as the… [Read More]

Our current program, which continues July 22 – 24, might be called “The Vienna of Haydn, Mozart, and Wranitzky.” However, none of these composers were actually born in Vienna. Mozart and Haydn were at least Austrian. Mozart was born in Salzburg and Haydn came from a small village named Rohrau… [Read More]