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ZEITGEIST
MUSIC OF OUR TIME

Zeitgeist Summer Concert Series

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Zeitgeist's Summer Concert Series celebrates the great outdoors with performances in backyards, parks, and community spaces throughout the Twin Cities metro area. So, grab a lemonade, pull up a chair, and join us for a new music performance in your neighborhood!

Click here for more about the artists and music we'll be playing

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MUSICAL LANDSCAPES
Watercolor Music by Todd Harper


Composer, improvisor, and painter Todd Harper centers the natural world and ecology in his artistic practice. He's created a series of water color graphic scores inspired by time spent in natural spaces throughout Minnesota, and we're going to play them in three neighborhood backyards. Concerts will be free, but space will be limited, so be sure to reserve a spot....and bring a lawn chair or blanket. See you there!

Friday, July 12 7 pm
​SOLD OUT 
Backyard of Joe O'Brien
75 Douglas Street
St. Paul, MN 55102



Saturday, July 13  2 pm
Backyard of
​Craig and Nancy Sinard

3060 Rosewood Lane North
Plymouth, MN 55441
Sunday, July 14 4 pm
Backyard of Doug Harper
8975 North Shore Trail North
Forest Lake, MN 55025
Make a Reservation

SUMMER RAIN
Music by Nirmala Rajasekar and Shruthi Rajasekar

Saturday, July 20 11 am
Golden Valley Public Library
Meeting Room
830 Winnetka Ave North
Golden Valley, MN 55427 
 
A blend of Indian Classical music (Carnatic tradition) and Western classical new music, Summer Rain features music developed and performed by Zeitgeist and composer/veena virtuoso Nirmala Rajasekar and composer Shruthi Rajasekar.
 
Works presented will include Summer Rain, Thillana Shuffle, and Sublime Journey by Nirmala Rajasekar plus a new work-in-progress created this summer. Performers will include Zeitgeist, Nirmala Rajasekar, veena and voice, and Shruthi Rajasekar, voice.

​Free to the public; No reservations required! 
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A Murmur in the Trees
Tuesday, August 20 7:30 pm
Silverwood Park
2500 County Road E
St. Anthony, MN 55421

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Composer Eve Beglarian was inspired by an Emily Dickinson poem and a piece of birch bark to create A Murmur in the Trees, a 30-minute work that features 24 double bass players spread throughout a grove of trees. The birch bark is used as a musical score that determines the sounds the basses create and where the players are located. The audience is welcomed to walk throughout the park to hear the music from different places, hearing some basses nearby and some quite far away. 

​Free to the public; No reservations required! 


This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature.
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