Third annual Opera Gala |
Medieval art lecture |
Student art exhibit |
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Chorale symphony |
Writer's competition |
Calendar of events |
In this gala concert, produced by opera Director Susan Boardman, School of Music voice faculty members, alumni and students will perform arias, ensembles and choruses from the world's most beloved operas.
The Oriana Singers, directed by Lynn Drafall, will sing choruses from Giordano's "Andrea Chenier," Verdi's "Macbeth," Wagner's "Der fliegende Holländer," and Donizetti's "L'elisire d'amore." Mezzo soprano Jan Wilson, soprano Theresa Smith, tenor Alex Hill and baritone Walter Wells, all alumni of the School of Music, will be featured soloists with tenor Richard Kennedy, baritones Norman Spivey and Marshall Urban, and soprano Sara Hopkins of the voice faculty. Accompaniment will be provided by pianists Robert Long, Matthew Doebler, Kris Sanchak and Sarah Spraitzar.
Tickets for the Opera Gala are $4, and may be purchased in advance from the School of Music Office or at the door the night of the performance.
The lecture is planned in conjunction with the exhibition "Medieval Art in America: Patterns of Collecting 1800-1940" shown at the Palmer through March 3. The lecture series is intended to expand upon selected topics explored in the exhibition and its accompanying catalogue.
Dr. Shepard has been at The Cloisters since 1985 and is in charge of the museum's extensive education department. The author of numerous studies on medieval stained glass, which have appeared in museum catalogues and scholarly journals, she has made substantial contributions to publications of the "Corpus Vitrearum." She also was assistant editor and coordinator of The Cloisters. Studies in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary.
All lectures are free to the public and will be presented at 2 p.m. in the Palmer Lipcon Auditorium of the Palmer Museum on the University Park Campus. All lectures in the series are co-sponsored by the Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies and the Center for Medieval Studies.
The exhibition features drawings by architecture students enrolled in the Arch 121 visual communications course taught by Richard Alden, assistant professor in the Department of Architecture.
"Mother Nature," the winning series of chorale songs, will be performed as part of "Mountain Laurels," a chorale symphony which Mr. Trinkley has written to celebrate the State College centennial. "Mother Nature," which won first prize in this year's Chautaqua Children's Chorale competition, was written especially for the State College Elementary and Middle School choruses and was supported by grants from the College of Arts and Architecture, the Borough of State College and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. The texts for "Mother Nature," as well as "Mountain Laurels," are drawn from the works of central Pennsylvania poets, including Theodore Roethke, John Haag, Jack McManis and E.H. Knapp.
Tickets to the Friday, Feb. 23, performance of "Mountain Laurels" are $8 for adults; $4 for students. Tickets for the Saturday, Feb. 24, and Sunday, Feb. 25, performances are $12 for adults; $5 for students. Friday and Saturday performances begin at 7: 30 p.m.; a Sunday matinee will begin at 2 p.m.
For ticket information, contact the Arts Ticket Center, open 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Saturday; phone (814) 863-0255. Outside the local calling area, phone (800) ARTS-TIX.
The competition is open to all Penn State students. There are two categories: prose and poetry. Each category is further separated into a graduate division and an undergraduate division. For each division within each category, there will be one first-place prize of $100, one second-place prize of $50 and one third place prize of $25.
The challenge of the competition is to produce a work inspired by the works in the exhibition, or by the issues that tie the exhibition together. Entries must be delivered to the Palmer Museum by 4:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 9. Winning authors will read their entries at an awards ceremony at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 29, in the Palmer Museum of Art on the University Park Campus.
For an entry form and more information, please contact the Department of English at (814) 863-0258, or the Palmer Museum of Art at (814) 865-7672.
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