The British Connection: Concert of 14 March 2007, Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota

	The night's opening gambit, Arnold Bax's Elegiac Trio, was played beautifully by Rees Allison, piano; Jane Garvin, flute; and Aaron Janse, viola.
	The second work on the program, Arthur Bliss's Quintet for Clarinet and String Quartet,  featured, clockwise from middle left, Michael Sutton, violin; Milana Reiche, violin; Joseph Longo, clarinet; Rebecca Arons, cello; and Aaron Janse, viola.
	Lennox Berkeley's Quartet for Oboe and Strings, from 1967, shows the influence of the French masters with whom he studied. Left to right, the players are Aaron Janse, viola; Michael Sutton, violin; Rebecca Arons, cello; and Basil Reeve, oboe and the group's chief musicologist, who put together this program and most of the others.
	Aaron Janse, violist, shows some (understandable) agitation during the Benjamin Britten Quartet no. 2 in C.
	A compact and appreciative audience turned out this Wednesday evening at the Weisman, though outside it was chill and snowy — and the campus was on spring break.
	Noni and Marty Dworkin, treasurer and chairman of the board of the Offering, enjoy the concert.
	Meanwhile, outside we have a cold late winter -- or is it early spring -- evening on the near east bank of the University campus. The bold, silvery shapes of the Weisman Art Museum will soon be enhanced by a $12 million expansion by architect Frank Gehry.