Composer Robert Sirota launches the inaugural season of a new concert series, Muzzy Ridge Concerts, with two performances in August. Both concerts will take place in the studio where Sirota has composed much of his music over the past 35 years, in Searsmont, Maine. Concerts will be approximately 60 minutes long, without intermission. Indoor seating […]
Composer Robert Sirota launches the inaugural season of a new concert series, Muzzy Ridge Concerts, with two performances in August. Both concerts will take place in the studio where Sirota has composed much of his music over the past 35 years, in Searsmont, Maine. Concerts will be approximately 60 minutes long, without intermission. Indoor seating […]
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 […]