Posted on September 9, 2022
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Here is my bouquet, here is a singsong of all the things you makeme think of, here is obliquepraise for the height and depthof you and the width too.Here is my box of new crayons at your feet. from “Colors Passing Through Us”, (New… Continue Reading “Colors Passing Through Us”
Category: Colors Passing Through Us, PerformancesTags: avian suite, Central United Methodist Church, Chamber Music, featured autumn, J.T. McKinney, manitou winds, marge piercy, Northern Michigan, organ, organ music, richard rodney bennett, stacey j. berk, swansea town, Thomas Bara, tom bara, travel notes 2, Traveling Mercies, Traverse City, wind quintet, Woodwind Quartet
Posted on September 9, 2022
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This article was published in preparation for our Spring 2018 performance. We’re proud to collaborate once again with Thomas Bara on October 15, 2022, and so we’re sharing it again! The organ studio at Interlochen Arts Academy is thoroughly alive and continues to thrive… Continue Reading “The Art of Collaboration: Thomas Bara”
Category: Colors Passing Through Us, PerformancesTags: art of collaboration, Central United Methodist Church, chamber group, Chamber Music, concert, featured autumn, J.T. McKinney, manitou winds, organ, organ music, Sojourn of Spring, spring concert, teaching music, Thomas Bara, Traverse City
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… Continue Reading “Traveling Mercies”
Category: Performances, Sojourn of SpringTags: bassoon, Bradley Hunter Welch, Central United Methodist Church, Chamber Music, clarinet, composition, concert, featured autumn, 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 April 25, 2018
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Beyond the notes and instructions on the page, beyond the audible details of musical form at the heart of a piece, most musicians want to find an even stronger connection to a piece that touches them. Sometimes in order to feel we’ve truly mastered a piece, we need to feel we understand why it was written.
Category: Performances, Sojourn of SpringTags: Central United Methodist Church, concert, Craig Phillips, Interlochen, Interlochen Center for the Arts, manitou winds, organ, Sojourn, Sojourn of Spring, spring concert, Thomas Bara, Traverse City
Posted on April 18, 2018
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Manitou Winds will be joined onstage, this spring, by special guest soloist Thomas Bara, organ, to present two exciting works for organ and winds.
Category: Performances, Sojourn of SpringTags: art of collaboration, Central United Methodist Church, chamber group, Chamber Music, concert, manitou winds, organ, organ music, Sojourn of Spring, spring concert, teaching music, Thomas Bara, Traverse City
