Just a few weeks before Easter celebrations, Midsummer’s Music invites you to participate in a different kind of Lenten celebration next weekend. For the second year in a row, Midsummer’s Music will put performances highlighting Franz Joseph Haydn’s Seven Last Words of Christ featuring the Pro Arte Quartet. The piece comprises seven sonatas written by Haydn, focusing on forgiveness, salvation, relationship, distress, abandonment, triumph, and reunion. Mingled in with the music are meditations led by local leaders Reverend Katie Estes, Tonya Fehlhofer, Reverend Brit Bjurstrom Frazier, Pastor Jim Honig, Reverend Kerry Krauss, Michelle Lawrie, Cari Lewis, Reverend Mark Stephen Richards, and more. Midsummer’s Music Executive Director, Allyson Fleck, says the meditations and the sonatas make for a unique music program.
The performances are at 5:00 pm on Friday, March 8th at Shepherd of the Bay Lutheran Church in Ellison Bay and at 3:00 pm on Saturday, March 9th, at First Presbyterian Church in Green Bay. Tickets are free and can be reserved at midsummersmusic.com or 920-854-7088.
