Midsummer’s Music received $2,500 from the Women’s Fund of Door County to support performances with music by women composers. Midsummer’s Music is pleased to announce that it was awarded a $2,500 grant from the Door County Community Foundation’s Women’s Fund in support of its dedication to presenting music by women… [Read More]

Midsummer’s Music, Wisconsin’s oldest summer chamber music series, continues its 2023 concert season with a sumptuous program featuring electrifying string quintets by Felix Mendelssohn and Michael Haydn – Franz Joseph Haydn’s much-neglected younger brother – along with a beautifully evocative oboe quartet by British composer Ernest John Moeran. Moeran’s Phantasy… [Read More]

“Let’s do it!” I imagine the title of the upcoming program creates a few questions among our followers. Who are these guys? And why? Those quite familiar with Midsummer’s Music know that Will Healy is our gifted composer-in-residence who has made quite a splash in our last two seasons with… [Read More]

A match made in heaven! Midsummer’s Music earns high praises for presenting works by lesser-known composers – especially composers of color and women composers – often alongside household names like Bach and Mozart. With its Emperor Concerto & Jeannie Yu program, audiences will hear one exhilarating quartet by a relatively… [Read More]

Johannes Brahms left a big shadow for composers who followed. We can see a wonderful example in the Clarinet Quintet by Somervell that shares our next program with the Brahms String Quintet in F Major. But Brahms was also operating in a complicated penumbra himself. Born in 1833, he was… [Read More]