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Posted on May 18, 2022
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This post was originally published in preparation for our May 2016 performance. We’re sharing it again in anticipation of the world premiere of Jason’s first two works for symphony orchestra! We hope you’ll join us Saturday, July 9, as Manitou Winds joins with the… Continue Reading “It starts with a downbeat”
Category: PerformancesTags: BASO feature, Benzie Area Symphony Orchestra, chamber group, Chamber Music, Classical Music, composers, featured anytime, featured autumn, jt mckinney, manitou winds, modern music, Northern Michigan, Platte Plains, Ransom Lake, Tom Riccobono
Posted on May 10, 2017
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This post was written in preparation for our May 2017 concert, Music Speaks In our 2017 spring concert, Manitou Winds explores the meandering, mystical path connecting music and words. Words were created to communicate. Whether spoken or written, we need words to translate, convey,… Continue Reading “Conferring with the Sun”
Category: Music Speaks, Musical Musings, PerformancesTags: art songs, cello, Chamber Music, concert, english horn, featured anytime, featured spring, Frances Densmore, Grace Episcopal Church, Havasupai, Jenni Brandon, Leslie Spier, manitou winds, modern music, Music Speaks, Native American Poetry, Nootka, Papago, piano, poetry, Ruth Underhill, soprano, Traverse City
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 April 20, 2016
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Laura composed “First Flight” to honor her friend Rebecca Lessard, founder of Wings of Wonder, a raptor rehabilitation center and sanctuary based in Empire, MI.
Category: Musical Musings, New Voices, PerformancesTags: Anne Bara, Benzie County, Benzie Wild Rose Society, chamber group, Chamber Music, clarinet, Classical Music, composers, Empire, flute, guitar, harp, Jason McKinney, Laura Hood, Leelanau County, manitou winds, modern music, New Voices, Northern Michigan, performance, quartet, Rebecca Lessard, Sam Clark, Wings of Wonder, woodwind
Posted on April 13, 2016
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In Baldwin’s “Landscapes”, the music delves into the life story of the artist, evoking the symbolism of the imagery while translating it into the unique timbres of the quartet.
Category: Musical Musings, New Voices, PerformancesTags: Anne Bara, bassoon, Benzie County, Benzie Wild Rose Society, chamber group, Christina Duperron, clarinet, Classical Music, composers, concert, Daniel Baldwin, Frankfort, Frederic Edwin Church, french horn, horn, Jason McKinney, Landscapes, Laura Hood, manitou winds, modern music, New Voices, Northern Michigan, piano, quartet, woodwind
Posted on April 6, 2016
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In “On Holt Avenue”, each of the four movements presents a small vignette from Jenni’s memories of daily life in her apartment in a particular Los Angeles neighborhood.
Category: Musical Musings, New Voices, PerformancesTags: Benzie County, Benzie Wild Rose Society, California, Classical Music, composers, concert, female composers, Interlochen, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Jason McKinney, Jenni Brandon, Los Angeles, manitou winds, modern music, New Voices, Northern Michigan, oboe, On Holt Avenue, piano, sonata, Susan Snyder, 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 October 7, 2015
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I have always been hesitant to call myself a composer. Looking through scraps of manuscripts saved from my college years and my high school journals, it’s obvious I’ve always aspired to be one. Thankfully, it wasn’t some misguided pursuit of fame or fortune that… Continue Reading “Woodwind Gourmet: Jason’s Müesli”
Category: Notable Breakfasts, Woodwind GourmetTags: chamber group, Chamber Music, Classical Music, composers, manitou winds, modern music, muesli, Northern Michigan, Notable Breakfasts, oatmeal, recipes, woodwind gourmet
