New Adventures in

Chamber MusictheMusical Offering

2005-2006Season

he Musical Offering’s 2005-2006 series offers

chamber music of many styles, from Baroque and

Classical to Romantic and contemporary works.

Some programs include familiar favorites: beloved

works of Bach, Mozart, Schumann, Brahms and Schubert.

Others introduce glorious voices heard less often in a

chamber setting, such as Carl Nielsen, André Caplet,

Lennox Berkeley and Ilja Hurník. The common thread, as

always, will be the intimate yet invigorating way every work

is presented—with the ensemble’s hallmark virtuosity and

enthusiasm.

October opens the season with a focus on the Baroque trio

sonata, illustrating its evolution from Bach’s era, the 18th

century, to a 20th-century interpretation by Hurník. Also

featured is Schubert’s moving string quartet, Death and the

Maiden, one of the most serious and emotional works this

composer ever produced.

Woodwinds are showcased in the Musical Offering’s second

program, in November, which includes Nielsen’s Serenata in

Vano for winds, cello and bass—a highlight for the many

audience members who so enjoyed the Nielsen Quintet for

Winds last year. Completing the concert are a charming

octet for winds, strings and piano by Sir Lennox Berkeley,

Diversions, which is much like a divertimento, and Brahms’

exquisite Trio for Clarinet, Piano, and Cello.

March brings the fascinating, rarely-heard Quintet for Piano

and Winds by André Caplet—a leading composer,

conductor and orchestrator of late 19th- and early 20th-

century Paris who wrote this work as a showpiece for the

brilliant wind virtuosi of the Paris Conservatoire. The

program closes with Schubert’s extraordinary Octet for

strings and winds, which was inspired by the famous septet

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Treasured works of Mozart and Schumann are

saved for the season’s final concert in April. Three

Mozart pieces illustrate his love of music for

woodwinds: the Adagio and Rondeau and the

Andante were among his very last creations, while

the horn quintet was written to honor the

composer’s good friend, the virtuoso horn player

Joseph Leutgeb. Concluding the concert and our

2005-06 series is Schumann’s Quintet for Piano

and Strings, perhaps the best known and most

beloved of his works for chamber ensemble.

Powerful, exquisite and inspiring: the new season

of the Musical Offering welcomes you. Please join

us for these masterworks!

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Two great locations.Sundin Music Hall is located on the Hamline University

campus at 1531 Hewitt Avenue in St. Paul. Free parking is

available in any Hamline University lot or on city streets.

Permit parking is not in effect on weekends and evenings.

Weisman Art Museum is located on the University of

Minnesota campus at 333 East River Road in Minneapolis.

Parking is available in the museum garage.

Become a Friend of The Musical OfferingYour contribution ensures the continuance of these seasons of

chamber music. Thanks to our generous friends, The Musical

Offering has been able to provide our community with over

thirty years of extraordinary music-making. You may make

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AcknowledgementThese concerts are supported in part by gifts from

the estate of Mr.& Mrs. Lloyd Sundin and

Hamline University.

Members of the Musical OfferingSusan Allard, bassRees Allison, keyboards, Chair, Dept.

of Music, Hamline UniversityJane Garvin, fluteCaroline Lemen, hornAaron Janse, viola, Minnesota OrchestraJoseph Longo, clarinet, Minnesota

Orchestra emeritus

Norbert Nielubowski, bassoon,Minnesota Orchestra

Basil Reeve, oboe, MinnesotaOrchestra

Michael Sutton, violin, MinnesotaOrchestra

Board of DirectorsMartin Dworkin, presidentNomi Dworkin, treasurerAndrea Lubov, secretaryRees Allison, co-artistic directorBasil Reeve, co-artistic directorChristine Berg

Mary Ann FeldmanMary MattsonLeroy ShemanekNancy ShemanekMichael Sutton

Friends of The Musical OfferingBenefactors

Nomi & Martin DworkinAndrea Lubov & Allan Schultz Ron & Mary Mattson

Ann & Felix PhillipsLeroy & Nancy Shemanek

Patrons

Jay & Syma CohnRichard GeyermanJohn A. Knutson & Co. PLLPDiana & Bruce LewisP. T. & B. B. Magee

Michael SuttonSaul TaylorJames Wellman

SupportersAmerican ExpressHans CourantGarvin & Bernice DavenportPaula DeCosseDow CorningBianca FineDonna Gunderson-RogersJohn & Judy HoweKenneth & Marian Rose

Mark & Alison SavinBonita Sindelir & Ken KellerRobert & Joyce SpectorJack Stuart & Nancy WestonVern SuttonRobert G. TaylorMaxine WallinGreg & Jennifer Zeck

FriendsKenneth O. BeckSonia Bowe-GutmanMary Ann FeldmanNorman & Doris FrumanEric Galatz & Lisa TiegelQuay Grigg, Jr.Anders & Julie HimmelstrupTheodore KochMary K. LanzKim & Anne Munholland

Richard & Constance OrianiEllen Maas Pratt Reva RosenbloomKate SaumurDr. Norman SterrieRomeyn TaylorAnn & Gary Wynia

New Adventures in Chamber Music

Wednesday, October 12 - 7:30 p.m.Weisman Art Museum

Sunday, October 16—3 p.m.Sundin Music Hall

J. S. Bach’s Trio Sonata in D minor, BWV 1036; Ilja Hurnik’s Sonata da Camera;

and Franz Schubert’s String Quartet #14 in D minor, Opus Posthumous (“Death and the Maiden”)

Sunday, November 13 - 3 p.m.Sundin Music Hall

Carl Nielsen’s Serenata in Vano; Sir Lennox Berkeley’sDiversions, Opus 63; and Johannes Brahms’

Trio in A minor, Opus 114 for clarinet, cello and piano

Wednesday, March 8 - 7:30 p.m.Weisman Art Museum

Sunday, March 12 - 3 p.m.Sundin Music Hall

André Caplet’s Quintet for Piano and Winds, andFranz Schubert’s Octet in F Major, D. 803

Sunday, April 23 - 3 p.m.Sundin Music Hall

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Adagio and Rondeau in C minor, K. 617; Quintet for Horn and Strings in E-flatmajor, K. 407; Andante in F Major, K. 616; and Robert

Schumann’s Quintet for Piano and Strings in E-flatMajor, Opus 44.

Guest artists to be announcedPrograms and artists subject to change without notice

For more information about the musicians and programs of TheMusical Offering, visit our website at www.musicaloffering.org.