Category: Musical Musings
Posted on April 12, 2017
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We visit Possum Hollow, the home and gallery of our Spring 2017 collaborating artist, Margie Guyot.
Category: Music Speaks, Musical Musings, PerformancesTags: Antrim County, art, art of collaboration, artist, chamber group, Chamber Music, Collaborating Artist, concert, Fields North of Petoskey, manitou winds, Margie Guyot, Music Speaks, Northern Michigan, oil on canvas
Posted on November 30, 2016
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In our annual winter concert, Manitou Winds presents a program of music, poetry, and prose inspiring you to embrace winter. Have you ever heard a tune that just kinda grabbed you by surprise and then stuck around? We have a lot of terms for… Continue Reading “St. Basil’s Hymn”
Category: Musical Musings, Performances, WS&C 2016Tags: bassoon, Chamber Music, Christmas Carols, clarinet, concert, Ellie Harold, featured winter, flute, french horn, George Winston, Glen Arbor, Glen Arbor Art Association, Greek Music, Greek Tradition, harp, horn, Jason McKinney, jt mckinney, jtmckinney, Malcolm Dalglish, Manitou Music Festival, manitou winds, SnowLight, St. Basil of Caesarea, St. Basil's Hymn, Traverse City, Winter, Winter Songs and Carols
Posted on November 16, 2016
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In our annual winter concert, Manitou Winds presents a program of music, poetry, and prose inspiring you to embrace winter. As creative director of Manitou Winds, I spend a lot of time searching through titles and listening to music, curating the individual pieces that… Continue Reading “A Manitou Christmas Medley”
Category: Musical Musings, Performances, Winter Songs & Carols, WS&C 2016Tags: Alfred Burt, Anne Bara, bassoon, chamber group, Chamber Music, Christina Duperron, Christmas Carols, clarinet, composers, composition, concert, Ellie Harold, featured winter, flute, french horn, Glen Arbor, Grace Episcopal Church, Grand Traverse County, guitar, harp, horn, Jason McKinney, Laura Hood, Leelanau County, manitou winds, oboe, oil on canvas, piano, Sam Clark, The Leelanau School, Traverse City, Winter, Winter Songs & Carols, Winter Songs and Carols, Winter Sunset, wintertime, woodwind
Posted on September 28, 2016
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This post was written in preparation for our September 2016 summer program. “The Secret Life of Barns (Cedar)” by Ellie Harold, 2016 Collaborating Artist For our Summer Fantasies concert, we invite you to join us in a colorful journey for the imagination as we… Continue Reading “Three Fiddle Tunes”
Category: Musical Musings, Performances, Summer FantasiesTags: Anne Bara, Cape Breton, ceilidh, Celtic Music, Chamber Music, clarinet, concert, featured celtic, flute, folk dances, folk music, Frankfort, harp, hornpipe, J.S. Skinner, Jason McKinney, Joey Beaton, manitou winds, Northern Michigan, Nova Scotia, Oliver Art Center, piano, reel, Sam Clark, Scotland, Scottish Music, Summer Fantasies
Posted on September 21, 2016
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This post was written in preparation for our September 2016 summer program. “The Secret Life of Barns (Cedar)” by Ellie Harold, 2016 Collaborating Artist For our Summer Fantasies concert, we invite you to join us in a colorful journey for the imagination as we… Continue Reading “Summer Waltzes Out”
Category: Musical Musings, Performances, Summer FantasiesTags: Benzie County, chamber group, Chamber Music, clarinet, composers, composition, Ellie Harold, flute, Frankfort, guitar, harp, Laura Hood, Leelanau County, manitou winds, Northern Michigan, Oliver Art Center, quartet, Summer, Summer Fantasies, Summer Waltz
Posted on September 14, 2016
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Within our Summer Fantasies concert program, there are three pieces I’ve dubbed “reveries”. I refer to them this way primarily as an intentional nod to their French origins, but also because each was inspired by or intended to evoke a dream-like fantasy.
Category: Musical Musings, Performances, Summer FantasiesTags: bassoon, Benzie County, Cakewalk, Chamber Music, clarinet, Classical Music, Claude Debussy, concert, Debussy, Ellie Harold, Faure, flute, Frankfort, french horn, Gabriel Fauré, Gabriel Pierné, Golliwogg, horn, Impressionism, Lake Michigan, manitou winds, Northern Michigan, oboe, Oliver Art Center, paintings, piano, Pierne, Summer Fantasies, wind quintet, woodwind
Posted on September 7, 2016
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In our modern era, it’s almost inconceivable for us to envision music being written and performed expressly for a single occasion. However, it was exactly that sort of one-time occasion that prompted King George II to commission Händel in 1749 to write “Music for the Royal Fireworks”.
Category: Musical Musings, Performances, Summer FantasiesTags: Baroque, Benzie County, Chamber Music, Classical Music, concert, Frankfort, G.F. Handel, manitou winds, Michigan, Northern Michigan, Oliver Art Center, Summer Fantasies, wind quintet, woodwind
Posted on August 31, 2016
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Our collaborating artists typically provide artwork to help promote our concert, and we always offer an opportunity display a collection of their artwork at the concert. But, shortly before the concert, Ellie approached me with an even bolder idea.
Category: Musical Musings, Performances, Summer FantasiesTags: art of collaboration, artist, Benzie County, chamber group, Chamber Music, Classical Music, Collaborating Artist, concert, Ellie Harold, Frankfort, manitou winds, New Voices, Northern Michigan, oil on canvas, Summer Fantasies, The Secret Life of Barns (Cedar), woodwind
Posted on April 27, 2016
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“I did not sit down, one day, and decide I would write “Three Narratives,” says Jason McKinney. “The piece just happened to come together during a very difficult time in my life. The structure of the piece, the melodies inside the structure—these were all comforts to me, a way of coping.”
Category: Musical Musings, New Voices, PerformancesTags: bassoon, Benzie County, Benzie Wild Rose Society, chamber group, Chamber Music, clarinet, Classical Music, coming out, concert, flute, Frankfort, Jason McKinney, manitou winds, modern music, New Voices, Northern Michigan, oboe, piano, Three Narratives, woodwind
Posted on March 30, 2016
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The flute is capable of so many modern special effects and extended techniques that a large swath of modern flute music tends to explore these extra-musical sounds and effects rather than drawing the listener in. Bonnie’s music manages to be undeniably modern yet unquestionably musical.
Category: Musical Musings, New Voices, PerformancesTags: Benzie County, Benzie Wild Rose Society, Bonnie L. Cochran, Boston Convervatory, chamber group, Chamber Music, Classical Music, composers, female composers, flute, Frankfort, manitou winds, modern music, New Voices, Northern Michigan, performance, Sam Clark, Suite for Flute & Piano, Susan Snyder, Traverse City, woodwind
