When you attend a Midsummer’s Music concert you know to expect a surprise or two. Sure, you’ll probably hear a tried and true, well-known masterpiece like the Brahms Piano Quintet that’s on our next program—one of the great masterpieces of chamber music. But you will also probably hear a fascinating… [Read More]

Midsummer’s Music, Wisconsin’s oldest summer chamber music series, continues its 2024 concert season with a program featuring three great classical composers: Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Josef Haydn, and Robert Schumann. The program’s three performances run July 5 to 7 at venues in Ellison Bay, Egg Harbor, and Sturgeon Bay in… [Read More]

If you create a program consisting of two string octets, you never know what the long-term implications might be. The combination of four violins, two violas, and two cellos it seems can have quite an impact. I was recently going over some correspondence that included a few condolence messages referring… [Read More]

Midsummer’s Music, Wisconsin’s oldest summer chamber music series, continues its 2024 concert season with a program highlighting two piano quintets by Antonín Dvořák and Johannes Brahms. The program’s four performances run June 22 through June 30 and feature pianist Jeannie Yu, who enjoys an active career as a soloist, chamber… [Read More]

“The sap is rising!” Few people remember that quote or its disastrous results. Adlai Stevenson III was running for Governor of Illinois a long time ago. He made that statement shortly after he announced his candidacy comparing his elation at running with early spring when the sugar maples come to… [Read More]