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t h e s e r i e sEach season, Music on the Hill presents four concerts in Mankato, Minnesota. Through a generous partnership with the School Sisters of Notre Dame, the concerts are set in the beautiful chapel on historic Good Counsel Hill. Featuring some of Minnesota’s best musiciansincluding members of the Minnesota Orchestra, the Grammy Award-winning Parker String Quartet, the Minnesota Opera Orchestra, and the Mankato Symphony Orchestra the programs include some of the richest works in the chamber music genre, with special attention to contemporary American works. The intimate setting and post-concert gatherings with the performers are designed to foster a rare bond between musicians and listeners of all ages.

t h i s s e a s o nThe season opens with a dynamite string quartet concert featuring Schubert's Death and the Maiden quartet. The second concert brings in special guests, the Bekesh Trio, comprised of Kenneth Freed, Sharon Mautner-Rodgers, and Bethel Balge, with guest Eleanor Freed. In March, musicians from Pittsburgh come to Mankato to present a program of Bach, Beethoven, Franck, and Muhly. The season wraps up with a program featuring the keyboard: organ, piano four-hands,and the Brahms C minor Piano Quartet. We hope you will join us for all four concerts!

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LYLE & KAY JACOBSON AND THE JONES PAGE JACOBSON FAMILY FOUNDATION

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THANKS THESE SPONSORS FOR MAKING THIS SEASON POSSIBLETHE MANKATO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

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looking glass2:OO | OCTOBER 16TH | 2O16Francesca Anderegg | Lydia Miller ChoorapuzhaDavid Leung | Thomas RosenbergW. A. Mozart - String Quartet No. 17, K. 458, “The Hunt”Caroline Shaw - Ent’racteFranz Schubert - String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, “Death and the Maiden”

The season opens with four strong voices in the chamber music scene joining to perform one of the greatest string quartets ever written. Francesca Anderegg, Lydia Miller Choorapuzha, David Leung, and Thomas Rosenberg will perform Schubert’s epic “Death and the Maiden” string quartet along with Mozart’s famous “Hunt” quartet and a work by living American composer Caroline Shaw, “Ent’racte,” which at once draws on the past via a Haydn quartet while creating new sounds for this era.

a d i s t a n t m i r r o r2:OO |JANUARY 22ND | 2O17Bekesh Piano Trio: Kenneth Freed | Sharon Mautner-Rodgers Bethel Balge | with special guest Eleanor FreedLudwig van Beethoven - Piano Quartet No. 3 in C MajorJoaquin Turina - Piano Trio in B minor, Op. 76Robert Schumann - Piano Trio No. 1 in D minorAstor Piazzolla - “Winter” from The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires

Our January concert features the newly formed trio of veteran Mankato musicians, the Bekesh Trio: Kenneth Freed, Sharon Mautner-Rodgers, and Bethel Balge with special guest Eleanor Freed. From Schumann’s definitive D minor Piano Trio to Beethoven’s early masterpiece, his C Major Piano Quartet, with some Debussy inspired Turina and Vivaldi inspired Piazzolla, the musical menu at this concert has something for everyone!

c o n t e m p l a t i o n2:OO | MARCH 5TH | 2O17Lydia Miller Choorapuzha | Michael DeBruyn | Francesca TortellaroLudwig van Beethoven - Piano Trio in D Major, Op. 70 No. 1 “Ghost”Nico Muhly - Common GroundJohann Sebastian Bach - Cello Suite in C minor, Prelude and AllemandeCesar Franck - Violin Sonata in A Major

March brings new faces to Mankato – Michael DeBruyn of the Pittsburgh Symphony and his wife, Francesca Tortellaro, joined by Lydia Miller Choorapuzha. Some Baroque music in Bach’s Fifth Suite for Solo Cello and some new music inspired by the Baroque, that of Nico Muhly; some music symbolizing death in Beethoven’s “Ghost” Trio, and some music symbolizing the beginning of a new life together in Franck’s Violin Sonata, the works on this special program evoke a dazzling array of human emotions.

r e f l e c t i o n s2:OO | MAY 21ST | 2O17Mary Jo Gothmann | Lydia Miller Choorapuzha | Deanna Anderson | Scott LykinsCharles-Marie Widor - Toccata from Symphony No. 5 for OrganFranz Schubert - Fantasia in F minor for piano four hands, D. 940Bohuslav Martinu - Three Madrigals for Violin and ViolaJohannes Brahms - Piano Quartet in C minor, Op 60

The season comes to an end with a program for the keyboard lover. Mary Jo Gothmann returns to Mankato to perform Widor’s celebratory Toccata on the organ and is then joined by Scott Lykins for Schubert’s Fantasia in F minor for Piano Four Hands. Lydia Miller Choorapuzha and Deanna Anderson team up for Martinu’s Three Madrigals for Violin and Viola, with all four musicians joining together for Brahms’ powerful C Minor Piano Quartet. An exciting finale to the season that you won’t want to miss!

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LYDIA MILLER CHOORAPUZHA, SCOTT LYKINS, MARY JO GOTHMANN

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