Sextet in E-flat Major, Op.81b • Ludwig van Beethoven Quintet in B Minor, Op. 115 • Johannes Brahms Door County Concerto • Quinn Mason, 2021 Composer-in-Residence Fellow Musicians TBA Quinn Mason is one of Midsummer’s 2021 Emerging Composers Initiative Fellows & a NextNotes creator. Dates & Times: Thursday, August 26, 2021 at 7 PM CT; […]
Sextet in E-flat Major, Op.81b • Ludwig van Beethoven Quintet in B Minor, Op. 115 • Johannes Brahms Door County Concerto • Quinn Mason, 2021 Composer-in-Residence Fellow Musicians TBA Quinn Mason is one of Midsummer’s 2021 Emerging Composers Initiative Fellows & a NextNotes creator. Dates & Times: Thursday, August 26, 2021 at 7 PM CT; […]
Join Midsummer’s Music for their free Coffee Talk programs—informal presentations on music topics by our ensemble members and friends. Quinn Mason ( a NextNotes creator) is one of Midsummer’s 2021 Emerging Composers Initiative Fellows. Midsummer’s will play the world premiere of his Door County Concerto during the Make No Small Plans program starting August 26. Date & Time: Saturday, […]
Join for Midsummer's Music's free Coffee Talk programs—informal presentations on music topics by our ensemble members and friends. Quinn Mason is one of Midsummer’s 2021 Emerging Composers Initiative Fellows & a NextNotes creator. Midsummer’s will play the world premiere of his Door County Concerto during the Make No Small Plans program starting August 26. Date & Time: Saturday, […]
Sextet in E-flat Major, Op.81b • Ludwig van Beethoven Quintet in B Minor, Op. 115 • Johannes Brahms Door County Concerto • Quinn Mason, 2021 Composer-in-Residence Fellow Musicians TBA Quinn Mason is one of Midsummer’s 2021 Emerging Composers Initiative Fellows & a NextNotes creator. Dates & Times: Thursday, August 26, 2021 at 7 PM CT; […]
The work of Dr. David R. Williams, Florence and Laura Norman, Professor of Public Health, Professor of African and African American Studies and Sociology at Harvard University, has focused primarily on discrimination in our public health systems and on how systematic racism affects one's health. For example, if we look at life expectancy at age […]
ReMembering: Singing Water is an original choral film that explores Minnesota as a place of both home and exile for immigrants, LGBTQ people, and Indigenous people. Interconnected stories are brought to life through choral music, spoken word, animation, and life size puppets. ReMembering is a collaboration with water protector Sharon Day; puppeteer Sandy Spieler; singer-songwriter Sara Thomsen; and features performances […]
The acclaimed ensemble loadbang celebrates the release of “Plays Well With Others”, a New Focus Recordings project, with a live concert featuring members Jeffrey Gavett (baritone voice), Andrew Kozar (trumpet), William Lang (trombone) and Adrián Sandí (clarinet). The program will include works by composers Eve Beglarian, Taylor Brook, Reiko Füting, Paula Matthusen, Heather Stebbins, and […]
ReMembering: Singing Water is an original choral film that explores Minnesota as a place of both home and exile for immigrants, LGBTQ people, and Indigenous people. Interconnected stories are brought to life through choral music, spoken word, animation, and life size puppets. ReMembering is a collaboration with water protector Sharon Day; puppeteer Sandy Spieler; singer-songwriter Sara Thomsen; and features performances […]
Fırat Erdim & Paula Matthusen & Olivia Valentine Panel Discussion LOOM · ROOM · HARP weaves together inside and outside, near and far, visible and invisible, artifacts of the past and actions in the present, through the infilled colonnade of the Anderson Gallery at Drake University, in Des Moines, Iowa. This site-specific installation and series […]
Aida Miron & Sven Eggers First one of the two talks about entering the continuous foyer of architecture cosmos connecting urban fabric and landscapes, highwalks and underground, east and west, megastructures, cafes, socialist housing complexes and public thresholds. Date & Time: Thursday, October 14, 2021 at 11 AM CT | 12 PM ET Get tickets […]
For this month's Equity Study Group, we will review Syd Beane's documentary film Ohiyesa: The Soul of an Indian. This documentary follows Kate Beane, a young Dakota woman, as she examines the extraordinary life of her celebrated relative, Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa). Biography and journey come together as Kate traces Eastman's path-from traditional Dakota boyhood, through […]
