Posted on September 25, 2017
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Our September 24th concert was an experiment: a test to see just how much variety could be crammed into a single concert program performed by a single ensemble. To up the ante, we also added an element of chance; allowing the audience to play… Continue Reading “Variety: It’s the Spice!”
Category: Performances, Variety: It's the SpiceTags: art, artist, bassoon, Benzie County, Beulah, chamber group, Chamber Music, Christina Duperron, concert, english horn, eric olson, flute, Frankfort, guitar, harp, horn, Jason McKinney, Laura Hood, Leelanau County, lever harp, lori feldpausch, manitou winds, oboe, piano, piccolo, Sam Clark, saxophone, st. andrews presbyterian church, Variety: It's the Spice
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 9, 2016
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For our 2016 collaborating artist, Ellie Harold, winter is often a season of inner discovery. With the weather outside inhospitable for her paints and canvas, where else might an artist turn but inward?
Category: Performances, Winter Songs & Carols, WS&C 2016Tags: art, art of collaboration, artist, Benzie County, Chamber Music, Classical Music, Collaborating Artist, collaboration, concert, Ellie Harold, Frankfort, Glen Arbor, Glen Arbor Artists Association, Grace Episcopal Church, Grand Traverse County, landscape, Landscapes, Leelanau County, manitou winds, Michigan, Northern Michigan, SnowLight, The Leelanau School, Traverse City, Winter, Winter Songs & Carols, Winter Songs and Carols, Winter Sunset, wintertime
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 March 21, 2016
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One of the aspects we enjoy most about putting together one of our seasonal concerts is the opportunity to collaborate with a talented local artist in our area of Northern Michigan. But, what does it mean to “collaborate” with another artist—especially when you work in a completely different medium?
Category: Musical Musings, New Voices, PerformancesTags: art, art of collaboration, artist, Benzie County, Benzie Wild Rose Society, chamber group, Chamber Music, Classical Music, Collaborating Artist, composers, composition, concert, Ellie Harold, Frankfort, manitou winds, modern music, New Voices, Northern Michigan, oil on canvas, Up North Jewelscape, woodwind
