Alder Street Sextet to play Mozart on May 21 recital The Celebration Works recital series continues at 3 p.m. on Sunday, May 21, with a program for piano and winds titled "From Mozart to Martinu" by the Alder Street Sextet. The group, which includes pianist Maria Choban, flutist Janet Bebb, oboist Ann van Bever, clarinetist Nanita McIlhattan, bassoonist Boyd Osgood and hornist Karen Bjorge, plans to perform one of Mozart's favorite compositions, the lovely Quintet for Piano and Winds, K. 452. A lyrical dialogue between the piano and the winds, the Quintet is especially appropriate because of the month-long Mozart festival going on in Portland during April and May. Also on the program, Alder Street Sextet's horn player Karen Bjorge and pianist Maria Choban will play the Sonata for Horn and Piano by German composer Bernhard Heiden. A student of Paul Hindemith, Heiden fled Nazi Germany for the United States in 1935 and subsequently taught composition at Indiana University for many years. Coincidentally, Heiden wrote this horn sonata at about the same time that his teacher Hindemith was writing a horn sonata of his own. Paul Hindemith's music will also be performed on the recital as the winds of the group play the Kleine Kammermusik für fünf Bläser, Op. 24. No. 2 (Little Chamber Music for Five Winds). This well-known piece has become a standard of the woodwind quintet repertoire because of its striking varieties of mood and tonal color. To close the program, the group will perform the Sextet for Piano and Winds by Czech composer Bohuslav Martinu. After spending his youth in his native country, Martinu went to Paris to study with Albert Roussel (who wrote a Divertissement for piano and winds, performed by the Alder Street Sextet on this series in 2003), but like Heiden and Hindemith, he also fled to the United States as World War II made life in Paris difficult. The Sextet has the unmistakable sound of the Parisian jazz scene and the kind of musical conversation between the piano and winds first used so effectively by Mozart.