Summer Music Consortium is a new collective of five established
groups on the Madison-area summer arts scene.
Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society
June 8 – 24, 2007
Chamber Music with a Bang!
Some like it HOT. We sure do! BDDS turns a Sweet Sixteen this year—and we’re celebrating with music in five different programs that’s both sweet and steamy. From the feverish, lovesick songs of Robert Schumann’s Dichterliebe to the sexy rhythms of Osvaldo Golijov’s Last Round, we are celebrating in the incendiary style you’ve come to know and love. Concerts will be performed in our new Madison home - the Overture Center's Playhouse - as well as in Spring Green at Taliesin's Hillside Theater, at the Stoughton Opera House, and the Mineral Point Opera House. With its diverse repertoire and mix of world-class musicians, BDDS will present chamber music in the approachable style that has become its hallmark. Headed by artistic directors Stephanie Jutt (flute) and Jeffrey Sykes (piano), the ever-changing roster of artists will include 19 nationally recognized musicians.
bachdancinganddynamite.org
608.255.9866
Madison Savoyards, Ltd.: Your Gilbert and Sullivan Connection
July 20-29, 2007
The Sorcerer and Cox & Box
John Wellington Wells and company will make an appearance in July 2007 along with the first performance in the Madison area of Burnand and Sullivan's Cox & Box. William Farlow returns as Stage Director and Gary McKercher returns as Music Director and Orchestra Conductor. Tickets are on sale Monday, June 4, 2007 at the Wisconsin Union Box Office, 262-2201, and the Vilas Hall Box Office, 262-1500 and via the internet at MadisonSavoyards.org.
Performances will take place at Music Hall, on the UW-Madison campus:
Friday July 20 7:30 PM
Saturday July 21 7:30 PM
Sunday July 22 3:00 PM
Friday July 27 7:30 PM
Saturday July 28 7:30 PM
Sunday July 29 3:00 PMmadisonsavoyards.org
608.231.9005
Madison
Early Music Festival
July 7-14, 2007
The Age of the Netherlanders
Join us as we celebrate our 8th season! Guest artists will offer eight days of workshop classes and a seven-concert series. Class offerings include consorts, instrumental and vocal skills classes, historical dance, large vocal and instrumental ensembles, and lectures on historical and cultural topics focusing early music from the Low Countries. Guest artists in residence include: Piffaro, Fortune's Wheel, The King's Noyse, and Marion Verbruggen.
www.memf.dcs.wisc.edu
608-263-6670
Isthmus Vocal Ensemble
August 3, 2007
Join the Isthmus Vocal Ensemble on Friday, August 3, for an evening of exceptional choral music. Now in its sixth year, the Isthmus Vocal Ensemble offers professional-grade choral performance through a uniquely intense and focused approach. For just two weeks of rehearsal and a single public performance, a temporary community of Madison's finest choral performers digs deep into compelling choral music––centuries old or freshly commissioned––and performs it with the clarity, intensity, and care that it deserves. The ensemble continues under the artistic direction of Scott MacPherson, and celebrates the international release of its first professional recording, hailed as "exemplary" by Fanfare magazine.
Token Creek Chamber Music Festival
A wooded glade, a quiet barn, exquisite music, glorious performances. The Token Creek Festival, held annually late in August at the sylvan summer retreat of John and Rose Mary Harbison, has been hailed as "one of the most important annual classical musical events in Madison." Token Creek offers an enchanting, richly rewarding, and quite unforgettable chamber concert experience: a beautiful rural setting, where nearby Token Creek meanders through wooded glades and abundant flower gardens; a unique and intimate performance space in the comfortably rustic barn that serves as recital hall; imaginative programming vision that distinguishes the series; and the exceptionally high quality of the musicians.
tokencreekfestival.org
608.241.2525
CATCH THEM ALL! STUDENT SUMMER MUSIC PASS!
Students: staying in Madison this summer? Now you will have the time to enjoy the best music by world-class performers. And it's within your summer budget!
For $30, you'll get a student pass that will admit you to your choice of six concerts - one from each of the six performing groups - in the Summer Music Consortium.
For a pass or more information, please call Bach Dancing & Dynamite
Society at 608.255.9866 or visit bachdancinganddynamite.org/summermusic.
Visa and MC accepted.
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