Posted on May 17, 2017
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In her latest work, “Sky Dance”, Laura composed both the music and the lyrics, arranging for flute, clarinet, ukulele, guitar, harp, and a very special mother-daughter vocal duet.
Category: Music Speaks, Musical Musings, PerformancesTags: Aurora Borealis, chamber group, Chamber Music, clarinet, composers, concert, Da Sister Hood, flute, folk music, Grace Episcopal Church, guitar, harp, Jessie Hood, Laura Hood, manitou winds, Music Speaks, Northern Lights, Northern Michigan, poetry, Sky Dance, Sleeping Bear Dunes, Traverse City, ukulele, words and music, world premiere
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 May 3, 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. We’ve been discussing for the past few weeks how music can enliven poetry and prose… Continue Reading “A Bunch of Nonsense?”
Category: Music Speaks, Musical Musings, PerformancesTags: art songs, bassoon, chamber group, Chamber Music, clarinet, Classical Composers, composers, concert, David Jones, Edward Lear, Emily Curtin Culler, featured spring, flute, french horn, Grace Episcopal Church, horn, Jabberwocky, Lewis Carroll, manitou winds, Music Speaks, nonsense poetry, oboe, soprano, The Owl and the Pussycat, Traverse City, wind quintet, woodwind quintet
Posted on April 26, 2017
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We explore one of Franz Schubert’s most celebrated lieder and learn how music and words can become inseparable.
Category: Music Speaks, Musical Musings, PerformancesTags: Anne Bara, art songs, chamber group, clarinet, composers, concert, Emily Curtin Culler, franz schubert, Interlochen Center for the Arts, lied, lieder, manitou winds, Michigan, Music Speaks, piano, poetry, Romantic Era, schubert, shepherd on the rock, soprano, Susan Snyder, Traverse City, words and music
Posted on April 19, 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. Music and words are often united through a composer’s use of poetry or prose (i.e.,… Continue Reading “What’s in a Title?”
Category: Music Speaks, Musical Musings, PerformancesTags: chamber group, Chamber Music, concert, featured anytime, featured spring, Grace Episcopal Church, Leelanau County, manitou winds, Margie Guyot, Music Speaks, Northern Michigan, Pastoral, Pastorale, Persichetti, wind quintet
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
