Midsummer’s Music hosts “Coffee Talk” lectures on music topics by its ensemble members, staff, and friends during the summer season and occasionally throughout the year. The free lectures often relate to Midsummer’s Music concert themes, music pieces, composers, and to Griffon String Quartet activities. Composer-in-Residence Will Healy, who returns in… [Read More]

“Fairy Tales and Ghosts.” Our upcoming program that includes music of Beethoven, Schumann, and Haydn seems pregnant with story lines. This is true but maybe with more wrinkles than meet the eye. The Fairy Tales part comes from a work by the same title (Märchenerzählungen) by Robert Schumann written in… [Read More]

Midsummer’s Music excels in pairing celebrated composers with diverse, lesser-known composers, but its Bastille Day Celebration program creates a new pairing: French composers and French wines. The program’s four performances run July 11 through July 14, and the three pieces being performed represent three different visions of France. Charles D’Indy… [Read More]

Midsummer’s Music hosts “Coffee Talk” lectures on music topics by its ensemble members, staff, and friends during the summer season and occasionally throughout the year. The free lectures often relate to Midsummer’s Music concert themes, music pieces, and composers, and to Griffon String Quartet activities. During the organization’s Bastille Day… [Read More]

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]