2011-2012 Season

Saturday, May 19, 2012 – 7:00 p.m.
Bethlehem Lutheran Church
417 1st Avenue West, Grand Marais, Minnesota

Sunday, May 20, 2012 – 3:00 p.m.
Trinity Lutheran Church
4957 MN 61, Hovland, Minnesota

To hear The WolfGang is to enter into a time warp with sounds echoing from over 200 years ago.  All that’s missing is the wigs, waistcoats, trusses, and candles. The musicians are:

Paul Jacobson, traverso (18^th century flute)
Stanley King, oboe
Mary Sorlie, violin
Jennifer Kalika, viola
Laura Handler, violoncello
Gail Olszewski, fortepiano

The Mannheim Connection

In December, 1777, two very popular musicians came to visit the most famous court orchestra in Germany, which was in Mannheim. Those musicians, one from London and one from Vienna, were friends of long-standing. A young 21-year-old Mozart rendezvoused with his older friend Johann Christian Bach, the “London Bach”, son of old J.S. Bach. There they met and made music with Ignaz Jacob Holzbauer, then in his 20^th and final year as the kapelmeister (read “conductor”) of the Mannheim Orchestra. The WolfGang will play music by these three composers, some of which was composed during the month or so that these wonderful musicians spent together. The program will end with a quintet by J.C. Bach which he brought along in his traveling case to this historical meeting one year after the American Revolutionary War.

Come and experience “The Mannheim Connection”, December 1777 to January 1778 or May 19^th and 20^th, 2012.

The WolfGang performs instrumental chamber music from the time of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, playing on musical instruments of the type that were used during Mozart’s life and in a style that “fits” that era. A Twin-Cities based ensemble, The WolfGang has been performing, recording, and touring for over 16 years. We play on classical era flutes, oboes, strings, and keyboard. Our keyboardist plays a replica of a Stein fortepiano (early form of the piano), like Mozart, who played on many a Viennese Stein fortepiano. Our three string players use violin, viola, and cello which are either from the 18^th century or are carefully modeled after 18^th century instruments. Our flutist and oboist play on modern replicas of instruments made by some of the great woodwind makers of the late 18^th century.