Griffon String Quartet Awarded Green Bay Grant

Greater Green Bay Community Foundation selects the Griffon to receive grant Midsummer’s Music’s resident string quartet, the Griffon, was recently awarded a generous grant from the Irene Daniell Kress Fund of the Greater Green Bay Community Foundation for its work with older adults and B Double Sharp program recipients for… [Read More]

Midsummer’s Music Announces Emerging Composers Initiative

Composer-in-Residence Program Expands Midsummer’s Music announces a new program designed to provide a platform for more talented young composers that expands on its Composer-in-Residence Program instituted in 2016 with the appointment of Jacob Beranek. The Emerging Composers Initiative adds two Program Fellows to its Composer-in-Residence position. All three appointees will… [Read More]

New Audiences for ‘Old’ Music

Engaging Youth in Classical Compositions Classical music, sadly, remains a foreign language to many youngsters today. With budget cuts and closures, schools can’t introduce students to the tenses and tempos of the intimate compositions renowned as chamber music. For most teens and tweens in Northeast Wisconsin, however, there is more… [Read More]

Door County concert series try to plan for 2021 amid COVID-19 uncertainties

CHRISTOPHER CLOUGH | GREEN BAY PRESS-GAZETTE In some ways, it seems like the directors of Door County concert series are getting ready for their summer seasons just like they usually do. Door Community Auditorium is selling tickets for its schedule of national touring acts. Tickets also are available for Peninsula… [Read More]

Griffon String Quartet to Stream Free Spring Concert March 14

The Midsummer’s Music resident string quartet performs Piazzolla, Drago and more! The Griffon String Quartet, hailed for “superb playing, palpable chemistry, spirit, and emotional connection,” will present its spring concert starting at 3:00 pm, Sunday, March 14, streaming simultaneously on the Griffon’s YouTube channel and the Midsummer’s Music YouTube channel…. [Read More]