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Music Director Osmo Vänskä, Orchestra musicians, conductors and other guest artists share personal connections to the music performed this season. Scroll down to view the complete list of concerts with commentary. Choose from Quicktime or Windows Media Player to preview insights on what makes each performance special.

Emanuel Ax and Holst's Planets
September 20-23, 2007
Program Overview
Quicktime | Windows Media
About American Music
Quicktime | Windows Media
Holst's The Planets
Quicktime | Windows Media
 
Beethoven's Ode to Joy
September 27-29, 2007
Beethoven's 9th
Quicktime | Windows Media
About Dominick Argento
Quicktime | Windows Media
The Choral Perspective
Quicktime | Windows Media
 
U.S. Bank Presents: Beethoven's Ode to Joy
September 30, 2007
Beethoven's 9th
Quicktime | Windows Media
The Choral Perspective
Quicktime | Windows Media
 
Beethoven's Second and Shostakovich
October 4-5, 2007
The Music of Beethoven
Quicktime | Windows Media
Sibelius' The Beloved
Quicktime | Windows Media
 
Garrick Ohlsson Plays Grieg
October 11-13, 2007
About Garrick Ohlsson
Quicktime | Windows Media
Grieg's Piano Concerto
Quicktime | Windows Media
Debussy's La Mer
Quicktime | Windows Media
 
Mozart's Jupiter and Brahms' Second
October 18-20, 2007
About Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
Quicktime | Windows Media
Skrowaczewski's Flute Concerto
Quicktime | Windows Media
 
Composer Institute Concert:
Osmo Conducts Future Classics!

October 26, 2007
The Importance of the Institute and New Music
Quicktime | Windows Media
The Experience for the Composers
Quicktime | Windows Media
The Music and the Orchestra's Performance
Quicktime | Windows Media

Meet the Composers:

  • Trevor Gureckis
  • Wes Matthews
  • Daniel Bradshaw
  • Elliot Miles McKinley
  • Xi Wang
  • Stephen Wilcox
  • Jacob Cooper
 
An Evening with Beethoven
November 1-3, 2007
Beethoven's 7th
Quicktime | Windows Media
About Yevgeny Sudbin
Quicktime | Windows Media
Corigliano's Fantasia
Quicktime | Windows Media
 
Cathedral Music:
Vänskä Continues the Bruckner Project

November 8-9, 2007
Program Overview
Quicktime | Windows Media
The Cathedral Acoustic
Quicktime | Windows Media
 
Inside the Classics: Stravinsky's The Firebird
November 14-15, 2007
Sam & Sarah's Series Overview
Quicktime | Windows Media
The Live Music Experience
Quicktime | Windows Media
Sam's Take on Stravinsky
Quicktime | Windows Media
Sarah's Take on Stravinsky
Quicktime | Windows Media
 
Concerti Parti I: Spotlight on Orchestra Soloists
November 21, 23, 24, 2007
Schumann's Concertstück
Quicktime | Windows Media
The Solo Performance
Quicktime | Windows Media
About Gilbert Varga
Quicktime | Windows Media
 
Concerti Parti II: Spotlight on Orchestra Soloists
November 29 - December 1, 2007
About Concerti Parti Concerts
Quicktime | Windows Media
About Gilbert Varga
Quicktime | Windows Media
Roma's Connection to the Music
Quicktime | Windows Media
The Solo Performance
Quicktime | Windows Media
 
The Sounds of Cinema Festival
January 17 - February 2, 2008
Why a Film Festival?
Quicktime | Windows Media
 
The Sounds of Cinema Festival:
John Williams and Beyond

January 24-25, 2008
Why a Film Festival?
Quicktime | Windows Media
About The Red Violin
Quicktime | Windows Media
About Schindler's List
Quicktime | Windows Media
 
The Sounds of Cinema Festival:
The Battleship Potemkin

January 26, 2008
Why a Film Festival?
Quicktime | Windows Media
The Battleship Potemkin
Quicktime | Windows Media
 
Inside the Classics: Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto
January 30-31, 2008
Sam & Sarah's Series Overview
Quicktime | Windows Media
The Live Music Experience
Quicktime | Windows Media
Sam & Sarah's Concert Overview
Quicktime | Windows Media
Sarah's Take on Tchaikovsky
Quicktime | Windows Media
About Peter McGuire
Quicktime | Windows Media
 
Every Person's Guide to the Orchestra
February 7-9, 2008
Program Overview
Quicktime | Windows Media
John Harbison's Music
Quicktime | Windows Media
 
To Be Certain of the Dawn
February 12, 2008
Interview with Osmo Vänskä
Quicktime | Windows Media
 
Rachmaninoff and Shostakovich
February 28-March 2, 2008
Conducting the Minnesota Orchestra
Quicktime | Windows Media
Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5
Quicktime | Windows Media
Jennifer Higdon's Music
Quicktime
| Windows Media
 
Brendel Plays Beethoven
March 6-7, 2008
About Alfred Brendel
Quicktime | Windows Media
Anton Webern's Music
Quicktime | Windows Media
 
Dvorák and Rachmaninoff
March 27-29, 2008
Andrew's Relationship with the Orchestra
Quicktime | Windows Media
Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances
Quicktime | Windows Media
Rachmaninoff's Trademark Effects
Quicktime | Windows Media
About Truls Mørk
Quicktime | Windows Media
Walton's Scapino Overture
Quicktime | Windows Media
About Andrew Litton
Quicktime | Windows Media
 
Vänskä Conducts Mahler:
A Lincoln Center Preview

April 10-11, 2008
Conducting Mahler
Quicktime | Windows Media
More on Conducting Mahler
Quicktime | Windows Media
Sibelius' The Dryad
Quicktime | Windows Media
 
Mozart, Mendelssohn and Hindemith
April 17-19, 2008
Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto
Quicktime | Windows Media
Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik
Quicktime | Windows Media
Hindemith's Mathis der Maler
Quicktime
| Windows Media
 
Marriner and Fleezanis: Sir Neville Returns!
April 24-27, 2008
About Sir Neville Marriner
Quicktime | Windows Media
Elgar's Violin Concerto
Quicktime | Windows Media
The Solo Performance
Quicktime
| Windows Media
 
Inside the Classics: Copland's Appalachian Spring
April 30 - May 1, 2008
Sam & Sarah's Series Overview
Quicktime | Windows Media
The Live Music Experience
Quicktime | Windows Media
Sam's Take on Copland
Quicktime | Windows Media
Sarah's Take on Copland
Quicktime | Windows Media
America's Post-War Optimism
Quicktime | Windows Media
 
Schubert's Unfinished Symphony
May 8-10, 2008
About Mark Wigglesworth and Mahler
Quicktime | Windows Media
Why Mahler is Fun to Play
Quicktime | Windows Media
 
Voices Raised
Masterworks with the Minnesota Chorale

May 15-17, 2008
Program Overview
Quicktime | Windows Media
About Helmuth Rilling
Quicktime | Windows Media
About the Minnesota Chorale
Quicktime | Windows Media
 
Crash! Bang! Boom!
Percussion Festival I

May 22-23, 2008
Percussion Festival Overview
Quicktime | Windows Media
Osmo on the Carmen Suite
Quicktime | Windows Media
Brian on the Carmen Suite
Quicktime | Windows Media
Crazy Things Percussionists Do
Quicktime | Windows Media
 
Crash! Bang! Boom!
Percussion Festival II

May 29-31, 2008
Percussion Festival Overview
Quicktime | Windows Media
Aho's Symphony No. 11
Quicktime | Windows Media
 
Crash! Bang! Boom!
Percussion Festival Finale

June 5-6, 2008
Percussion Festival Overview
Quicktime | Windows Media
The MacMillan/Bach Connection
Quicktime | Windows Media
Sibelius' Symphony No. 6
Quicktime | Windows Media
 
Russian Spectacular: Season Finale!
June 5-6, 2008
Stravinsky's Jeu de cartes
Quicktime | Windows Media
Scheherazade
Quicktime | Windows Media