This may be the first year that I will be performing with the Midsummer’s Music Festival, but it is also my twenty-first June spent in the beautiful Door Peninsula. I was only a seven-and-a-half-month-old baby during the premier season of MMF in 1991, and although I obviously do not… [Read More]
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Midsummer’s Music Festival’s Chamber Music Is Good For You!
What if Chamber Music was good for you? I had this thought recently, and it has been haunting me. No, its not that I’m having some kind of professional mid-life crisis that is causing me to question whether the music we perform has a salutary effect on our listeners…. [Read More]
Rustic Door County Barns Featured During Midsummer’s Music Chamber Music Festival!
Midsummer’s Music wraps up their second program – Haunting Recollections – tonight at the Woodwalk Gallery in Egg Harbor. As I write this, Jim Berkenstock is addressing the audience. This beautiful gallery, in a converted barn, offers excellent acoustics. Tonight we have the gentle sound of falling rain… [Read More]
Enthusiasm Rises for Door County’s Midsummer’s Music Festival’s Musicians!
June 9th was the first full day of rehearsal for our Midsummer’s Music band of musicians here in Door County. We did some rehearsing earlier in the week in the Chicago area, but the first phalanx of our group is here and hard at work – six hours today… [Read More]
Midsummer’s Music Classical Music Concert at Björklunden, Baileys Harbor, Door County!
Midsummer’s Music presents the final concert tonight, June 14, in the ‘Youthful Exuberance’ program at Björklunden in Baileys Harbor. “This is one of our favorite places to perform,” explains Executive Director, Kathleen Pearson. “It’s a beautiful spot and the ambiance reflects the history and tradition of this retreat. It… [Read More]