Water Music
The Minnesota Marine Art Museum is excited to introduce a new partnership with the Winona Symphony Orchestra. Water Music: Chamber Concerts at the MMAM presents a series of four chamber music concerts in an intimate, refined setting among the galleries. These performances are jointly programmed to spotlight both the visual treasures of the Minnesota Marine Art Museum and musical masterworks unified by a common theme.
Tickets to each event are $22.
Edward Moran, Commerce of Nations Rendering Homage to Liberty, 1876. Oil on canvas. Private collection, Minnesota Marine Art Museum, Winona, MN, USA.
Water Music: November Concert
Thursday, November 11, 2021, 7:00PM - 8:30PM
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With a nod toward Veterans Day and celebrating the freedoms won for our country, our first chamber concert will center on a magnificent and monumental painting by Edward Moran and include compositions by the patriotic American composer Randall Thompson. Exploring the effect of luminism in creating lightness and clarity, this program emphasizes the use of color modulation in the artwork and tonal color of the newly invented clarinet, which fascinated Mozart and inspired his Clarinet Quintet.
Featured artwork: Edward Moran, Commerce of Nations Rendering Homage to Liberty, 1876. Oil on canvas. Private collection, Minnesota Marine Art Museum, Winona, MN, USA.
PROGRAM:
Randall Thompson: Alleluia
Randall Thompson: Suite for Oboe, Clarinet, and Viola
W. A. Mozart: Quintet for Clarinet and Strings
Dan Sheridan, clarinet and musicians of the Winona Symphony Orchestra
William Frederick de Haas, White Island Light – Isle of Shoals, 1879. Oil on Canvas. Private collection, Minnesota Marine Art Museum, Winona, MN, USA.
Water Music: January Concert
Thursday, January 13, 2022, 7:00PM - 8:30PM
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In the midst of winter, audiences at our Bach concert will experience the season in a new climate – the North Atlantic. The text of the cantata and the painting of the Isle of Shoals buffets us about in a wild storm at sea – but not without sanctuary. Take the trip with us knowing that we’ll return safely at the end.
Featured artwork: William Frederick de Haas, White Island Light – Isle of Shoals, 1879. Oil on Canvas. Private collection, Minnesota Marine Art Museum, Winona, MN, USA.
PROGRAM
Bach: Violin Concerto in E Major
Bach: Cantata No. 56
Alan Dunbar, baritone and Erik Rohde, violin
Alfred Thompson Bricher, On the Mississippi Near Winona, Minnesota – Shower Clearing, 1868. Oil on canvas. Private collection, Minnesota Marine Art Museum, Winona, MN, USA.
Water Music: February Concert
Thursday, February 10, 2022, 7:00PM - 8:30PM
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Dúo León will bring us back to our own river valley with music inspired by the beauty and variety of the northern Mississippi River in winter. Through the music and art, we appreciate the river’s ever-changing character throughout the season and through varied landscapes.
Featured artwork: Alfred Thompson Bricher, On the Mississippi Near Winona, Minnesota – Shower Clearing, 1868. Oil on canvas. Private collection, Minnesota Marine Art Museum, Winona, MN, USA.
PROGRAM
Katherine Bergman: Hidden Currents
Bernard Andres: Algues
Alyssa Morris: Four Personalities
Dúo León: Susan Miranda, oboe and Hannah Palmquist Hite, harp
Martin Johnson Heade, Great Florida Sunset, 1887. Oil on canvas. Private collection, Minnesota Marine Art Museum, Winona, MN, USA.
Water Music: April Concert
Thursday, April 28, 2022, 7:00PM - 8:30PM
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At our final concert we welcome back the musicians of the Apollo Music Festival who concluded our last season with the magnificent Beethoven Triple Concerto. Returning with another knock-out program, they will perform pieces by two preeminent American women composers.
Featured artwork: Martin Johnson Heade, Great Florida Sunset, 1887. Oil on canvas. Private collection, Minnesota Marine Art Museum, Winona, MN, USA.
PROGRAM
Jennifer Higdon: Piano Trio
Amy Beach: Piano Quintet
Garrett Ross, piano and musicians of the Apollo Music Festival