“For a second straight year, the Peninsula Music Festival Symphony Series has fallen victim to the COVID-19 pandemic, although a smaller series will be held in its place,” writes Christopher Clough in Tuesday’s (4/12) Green Bay Press-Gazette (WI). “The festival announced Monday afternoon it is canceling its long-running annual season of nine classical music concerts in August performed by a professional symphony orchestra because of ongoing health safety concerns … as well as the financial viability of possibly having to present concerts with reduced audience sizes to allow for social distancing in its usual home at Door Community Auditorium…. Executive director Christoph Ptack said … the organization also had to take into account the ramifications of bringing together 80-some musicians … along with technical and support staff…. Ptack noted [the early cancellation] gives the musicians time to make alternate plans for losing this gig, instead of canceling a couple weeks before it would have started and leaving them with no options to work elsewhere…. Organizers are planning a three-concert Recital Series taking place … Aug. 5, 12 and 19, in the Kress Pavilion in Egg Harbor…. The programs will feature music for piano and string instruments.”
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