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Posted on April 24, 2019
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Inspiration can turn up anyplace, whether or not you’re searching for it. It can be found trailside on a walk through a familiar nature preserve, casually absorbed while people watching from your favorite café window, or even scribbled amid the pages of an old…
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Category: Found Objects, PerformancesTags: Anne Bara, bassoon, Bay View Wind Institute, Christina Duperron, clarinet, composition, flute, Found Objects, french horn, horn, horses, Jason McKinney, Laura Hood, oboe, paint horse, Sam Clark, Tony Manfredonia, Whoa!, wind quintet
Posted on April 17, 2019
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This post was written in preparation for our May 2019 concert, Found Objects. What is a bagatelle? Is it a fancy pasta shape traditionally served in a light béarnaise sauce? A hearty Italian bread served alongside a cheeseboard? Actually, it’s neither of those things,…
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Category: Found Objects, PerformancesTags: Anne Bara, Bagatelle, bassoon, Christina Duperron, clarinet, creative writing, fiction, flute, Found Objects, Jan Ross, Jason McKinney, oboe, PDQ Bach, peter schickele, reading, Sam Clark, Seven Bagatelles, Seven Unfinished Stories, short stories, Woodwind Quartet
Posted on April 10, 2019
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Do inanimate objects have a narrative, a story to tell from their perspective? Can ordinary objects be viewed as works of art? Artists have explored this concept throughout history in one form or another, but composer Jenni Brandon (b. 1977) may be the first…
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Category: Found ObjectsTags: Anne Bara, bassoon, Christina Duperron, clarinet, concert, Found Objects, Grace Episcopal Church, Jason McKinney, Jenni Brandon, manitou winds, oboe, PEN Trio, Reed Trio, spring concert, Traverse City, Trio D'Anches, woodwind, woodwind trio
Posted on March 13, 2019
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On Saturday, March 9, 2019, we invited everyone to Rove Estate Vineyard & Winery in Leelanau County to celebrate with us in the release of our debut album, First Flight. An afternoon of excellent local wine and beautiful local music, it was great to…
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Category: PerformancesTags: Anne Bara, bassoon, CD release party, Celtic Music, Christina Duperron, clarinet, composer, featured spring, First Flight, flute, french horn, guitar, harp, horn, Jason McKinney, Laura Hood, Leelanau County, lever harp, oboe, Rove Estate Vineyard & Winery, Sam Clark, soprano saxophone, Traverse City
Posted on August 18, 2018
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Thank You to everyone who came out to experience “A Celtic Summertide” with us at the Oliver Art Center in Frankfort! It was a lovely evening of music and art made all the lovelier by the warmth of your company. The gallery became filled…
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Category: A Celtic Summertide, PerformancesTags: A Celtic Summertide, Anne Bara, bassoon, Cape Breton, Celtic Music, Chamber Music, Christina Duperron, clarinet, composition, concert, Ellie Harold, Emily Curtin Culler, english horn, flute, Frankfort, french horn, guitar, harp, horn, In Studio A, Interlochen Public Radio, IPR, Ireland, Jason McKinney, Laura Hood, manitou winds, Northern Michigan, Nova Scotia, O'Carolan, O'Carolan's Symphony, oboe, Oliver Art Center, Sam Clark, Scotland, soprano
Posted on August 8, 2018
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“The Old Ash Tree” is dedicated to my grandfather, Bryant McKinney. In it, I hope to capture his strength, the beauty of the humble life he’s led, and his role as a central axis in my family, the main branch in our tree of life.
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Category: A Celtic Summertide, PerformancesTags: A Celtic Summertide, Alzheimer's Disease, Alzheimer's Stories, bassoon, Benzie County, Chamber Music, clarinet, composition, concert, flute, Frankfort, guitar, harp, Jason McKinney, lever harp, manitou winds, Oliver Art Center, The Old Ash Tree
Posted on August 1, 2018
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When I began studying lever harp in 2010, one of the volumes of harp music I purchased was a collection of tunes by O’Carolan*. Exploring the tunes while also teaching myself to play the harp, I eventually read more and more about the composer,…
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Category: A Celtic Summertide, PerformancesTags: A Celtic Summertide, bassoon, Benzie County, Carolan, Celtic Music, Chamber Music, clarinet, composition, concert, featured spring, flute, Frankfort, french horn, George Brabazon, harp, horn, Ireland, Jason McKinney, Lady Athenry, manitou winds, Mrs. Power, O'Carolan, O'Carolan's Symphony, Oliver Art Center, Planxty Burke
Posted on July 18, 2018
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If you’ve attended a Manitou Winds concert, recently, you’ve no doubt experienced the wonderful voice of Emily Curtin Culler. Whether singing an aria from a Baroque cantata, a classic German lieder, or a traditional Irish lullaby, Emily’s voice has tremendous dynamic range and is…
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Category: A Celtic Summertide, PerformancesTags: A Celtic Summertide, art of collaboration, bassoon, Bealtaine, Beidh Aonach Amárach, Benzie County, Celtic Music, Chamber Music, clarinet, composers, composition, concert, Dandling Songs, Emily Curtin Culler, featured summer, flute, folk music, Frankfort, french horn, horn, Ireland, Jason McKinney, lullaby, manitou winds, Northern Michigan, oboe, Oliver Art Center, Seoithín Seo Hó, soprano, Summer, Thugamar Féin an Samhradh Linn, Trí Amhrán as Éirinn, wind quintet
Posted on May 2, 2018
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Traveling Mercies, written by Manitou Winds founder Jason McKinney, was completed in January 2018. Composing the work became both an adventure and a learning process. To tell you more, here’s Jason in his own words: The idea to write a chamber work for organ…
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Category: Performances, Sojourn of SpringTags: bassoon, Bradley Hunter Welch, Central United Methodist Church, Chamber Music, clarinet, composition, concert, featured spring, flute, horn, Jason McKinney, manitou winds, Michigan, oboe, organ, organ music, performance, Sojourn of Spring, spring concert, Thomas Bara, Traveling Mercies, Traverse City, wind quintet, woodwind quintet, world premiere
Posted on November 20, 2017
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“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” — Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) from The Rest is Noise When my paternal grandmother passed away suddenly and unexpectedly in December 2005, I had recently moved to Chicago and was unable to travel…
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Category: Performances, Winter Songs & Carols, WS&C 2017Tags: bassoon, clarinet, collaboration, composition, featured winter, flute, french horn, Glen Arbor, Glen Arbor Art Association, Grace Episcopal Church, horn, Jason McKinney, Kathleen Ryan, Northern Michigan, piano, The Leelanau School, Traverse City, What the Stars Saw on the Prairie, Winter Songs & Carols, Winter Songs and Carols
