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 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
Posted on March 24, 2016
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“Five Songs for Kathleen” is a brilliant song cycle combining the often bittersweet imagery of the poets’ lines with Deborah’s signature warm and graceful melodic writing.
Category: Musical Musings, New Voices, PerformancesTags: Anne Bara, Benzie County, Benzie Wild Rose Society, chamber group, Chamber Music, Claire Olinik, clarinet, Classical Music, composers, concert, Deborah J. Anderson, Emily Dickinson, female composers, Five Songs for Kathleen, Frankfort, Interlochen, Interlochen Center for the Arts, manitou winds, modern music, New Voices, Northern Michigan, performance, piano, Sara Teasdale, Sheila Nickerson, soprano, Susan Snyder, Traverse City, 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
Posted on November 30, 2015
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This post was written in preparation for our December 2015 Winter Songs & Carols program. Winter Songs & Carols will be Manitou Winds’ first-ever concert — one they hope to make an annual tradition in Northern Michigan. It’s a concert in exploration of the… Continue Reading “Winter Songs & Carols: Susan Hatt Johnson”
Category: Musical Musings, Winter Songs & Carols, Woodwind Gourmet, WS&C 2015Tags: art of collaboration, Benzie County, chamber group, Chamber Music, chili, Christmas Carols, Encore Winds, Frankfort, Grace Episcopal Church, manitou winds, Northern Michigan, Old Town Playhouse, recipes, Susan Hatt Johnson, The Dance Center Inc., Traverse City, Winter Songs & Carols, Winter Songs and Carols, wintertime, woodwind, woodwind gourmet
