Concerts

NEW! The Musical Offering SPACE Concert Series

The Musical Offering has joined with the Evanston League of Creative Musicians, and will begin offering a series of concerts at the S.P.A.C.E (Society for the Preservation of Art & Culture in Evanston).

SPACE is located at 1245 Chicago Ave in Evanston. info@evanstonspace.com

Upcoming Performances at SPACE
(please see Summer Concert Series below)

Join Us! The Summer Soirée Concert Series 2009

This series of Thursday evening concerts features The Musical Offering’s world-class faculty performing a wide variety of classical and world music. Concerts held at the MO are free and open to the public with donations welcome. Concerts held at SPACE are $12/$8. All concerts will begin at 7:00 PM at either location.

• June 25th at the MO: The Zephyr Ensemble - Susan Crandall, flute; Roy Harris, bassoon, Bonnie Campbell, clarinet; Christine Phillips, oboe; Barb Shepard, horn. Selections from The Nielson Woodwind Quintet and Henri Lefebvre.
• July 9th at the MO: Harp Fest "Just For Fun" - Annette Bjorling and ensemble; Annette Bjorling, harp and recorder; Kurt Bjorling - basset-horn, recorder; Dan DeLorenzo - double bass, recorder; Kathy Kelly - vibes, recorder. The group will perform a program of renaissance and baroque music as well as contemporary jazz compositions.
• July 21st at SPACE: Messiaen's "Quartet for the End of Time" - In 1940, Olivier Messiaen was interned in a German prison camp after being captured while serving as a medic in the French army. While imprisoned in Stalag VIII A, he discovered among his fellow prisoners a clarinetist, a violinist and a cellist. Messiaen, a fine pianist as well as a composer, aided by the kindness of a German guard who smuggled in music paper, pencils and erasers for him to compose with, set about creating a quartet for the instruments at hand and in so doing, composed one of the most endearing and far-reaching works of chamber music of the 20th century. The premiere of the Quartet for the End of Time took place on 15 January 1941 in front of several hundred malnourished prisoners in the freezing cold with a piano that had several broken keys. Messiaen later recalled of the occasion, "Never was I listened to with such rapt attention and comprehension."
On July 21, 2009, the Quartet for the End of Time will be presented again in far more pleasant circumstances, in the beautiful SPACE venue and by four of The Musical Offering's faculty and associates. James Falzone, clarinet; Rebekah Cope, violin; Karen Schulz-Harmon, cello; and Rick Ferguson, piano
• July 30th at the MO: Mandy and the Bandits - TBA
• August 11th at SPACE: Celtic Fest - Jesse Langen, guitar and Irish flute; John Williams, fiddle and concertina; Rebekah Cope, fiddle and Tim Mulvaney, percussion
• August 20th at the MO: An evening of "Opera Cabaret" - Tina Pappademos, soprano presents a comedy spoof on classical voice

Musical Offering programs are supported in part by the Dr. Scholl Foundation, the Illinois Arts Council (a state agency), the Evanston Arts Council (a city agency), First Chiropractic, the John Buck Company Foundation, Victoria Holland and Michael Low, Lora and Kent Swanson and the generosity of many individual donors.
Thank you!

The Musical Offering is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization dedicated to creating and nurturing community through music study, performance and outreach.
Students of all ages, backgrounds and circumstances are welcome.

Music is for everyone!