The Arts

Pennsylvania Quintet Greek Sing Concert Oct. 27
Behrend film series "Annie Get Your Gun" Bach's Lunch
Art on the Move "Philadelphia, Here I Come" Kern exhibit
Art Alley exhibit Exhibit features Old Main Odyssey Through Literature
Exhibits continue

"Philadelphia, Here I Come" will be on stage
at 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1, in Eisenhower Auditorium on the
University Park Campus. For tickets, call the Arts Ticket Center
at (814) 865-0255 or (800) 278-7849.

Pennsylvania Quintet

The Pennsylvania Quintet, Penn State's resident wind faculty chamber ensemble, will present a free concert at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 24, in the College of Arts and Architecture School of Music Recital Hall on the University Park Campus. The quintet will perform three new compositions from its "New Music Recording Project," as well as works by Andriessen, Bach and Bizet.

The Pennsylvania Quintet has performed at major venues on both sides of the Atlantic, including the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in Germany. The members of the Pennsylvania Quintet are Eleanor Duncan Armstrong, flute; Tim Hurtz, oboe; Smith Toulson, clarinet; Lisa O. Bontrager, horn; and Daryl Durran, bassoon.


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Greek Sing

Greek Sing, sponsored by the Penn State Panhellenic Council, will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26, in Eisenhower Auditorium on the University Park Campus. Tickets are $5.50 in advance and $7 at the door. All proceeds benefit the Gayle Beyers Scholarship Fund. For information call (814) 865-0510.


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Concert set for Oct. 27

The 54 members of the Penn State Concert Choir, conducted by D. Douglas Miller, professor of music, will present their major fall on-campus performance at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 27, in the College of Arts and Architecture School of Music Recital Hall on the University Park Campus.

A special feature of Sunday's concert will be the performance of one piece sung by both the Concert Choir and a number of alumni of Penn State choirs conducted in the 1950s and 1960s by retired professor James Beach. The piece will be conducted by Beach.

Tickets for Sunday's concert are $2.50 for students and $4.50 for non-students, available in Room 233 of the Music Building during regular business hours and at the door before the concert.


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Behrend film series

The Division of Humanities and Social Sciences at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, continues its fall 1996 International Film Series at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 28, with "Ay, Carmela!"

On Monday, Nov. 4, "Yo, la Peor de Todas (I, the Worst of All)" will show; and "Valentina" will be presented Monday, Nov. 11.

The films selected have all received critical acclaim, and "Ay, Carmela!" won 13 Goya Prizes, the equivalent of the Spanish Oscar.

All films will be shown in the Reed Lecture Hall, Reed Union Building. For more information contact the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences at (814) 898-6108.


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"Annie Get Your Gun"

"Annie Get Your Gun," celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, will be performed at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 29, in Eisenhower Auditorium on the University Park Campus.

The musical, with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin, thrills audiences with the adventures of trick shooters Annie Oakley and Frank Butler. The production stars Glenn Yarborough and Rita McKenzie.

Tickets are $32.50, $27.50 and $23.50 for non-students and $27.50, $23.50 and $20.50 for students. For more information, contact the Arts Ticket Center, open Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m, at (814) 863-0255. Outside the local calling area, phone (800) 278-7849.


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Bach's Lunch

The Penn State Clarinet Choir, directed by Smith Toulson, professor of music, will perform at the Bach's Lunch concert at 12:10 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 31, in the Helen Eakin Eisenhower Chapel on the University Park Campus. The free 20-minute concert is part of the Bach's Lunch series sponsored by the College of Arts and Architecture School of Music and the University Lutheran Parish.

The Clarinet Choir consists of 12 clarinetists; all but one are clarinet majors in the School of Music. Audience members may bring their own bag lunches to eat after the concert in the Roy and Agnes Wilkinson Lounge. Coffee and tea will be provided.


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Art on the Move

Art on the Move at the North Halls Cultural Lounge on the University Park Campus features "The Return of Jehu" and other oil paintings by Michael Christy until Nov. 1.

Christy, a senior completing his BFA in painting, also has exhibited at Patterson and Zoller galleries, and in downtown State College at the Daily Grind.


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"Philadelphia, Here I Come"

The Lyric Theatre of Belfast will perform "Philadelphia, Here I Come" at 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1, in Eisenhower Auditorium on the University Park Campus. The play is sponsored by the College of Arts and Architecture's Center for the Performing Arts. It tells the story of a young man on the point of emigrating to the United States from Ireland, and the poignant need he feels to break through the barrier of silence that divides him from his father.

The Lyric Theatre of Belfast has nurtured the talents of the city's playwrights through 25 years of civil unrest. This is the theatre's first production of "Philadelphia, Here I Come" since 1976. Tickets are $23.50 for non-students and $19.50 for students. For more information, contact the Arts Ticket Center.


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Kern exhibit

The Kern Exhibition Area on the University Park Campus will display coin art and jewelry by Claire Allison Rutiser through Nov. 17.

A materials science graduate student, Rutiser combines art and engineering, aesthetics and technology, to mint coins and design her jewelry.

Seven years ago the artist saw a demonstration of medieval coin minting and was fascinated by the elegance and beauty of the process. Rutiser's apprenticeship taught her the great traditions of ancient Celtic and Roman craftsmen.

Rutiser makes her newly minted coins into earrings and necklaces.

The exhibit is free to the public.


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Art Alley exhibit

Art Alley in the Hetzel Union Building on the University Park Campus features drawings by Christine Meyers through Nov. 17. The exhibit includes both portraits and still-life color pencil drawings.

A native of Johnstown, Pa., Meyers has been commissioned to draw portraits of the Pittsburgh Penguins. An award winning artist, she creates sensitive, colorful representations.


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Exhibit features Old Main

An exhibit titled "Old Main Through the Years" looks at the many phases of Old Main's history and is now on display in the lobby of Pattee Library on the University Park Campus. Created by the University Archives/Penn State Room, the exhibit features archival photograph reproductions and some relics, including some of the earliest photos dating from 1859 and 1862 through recent photos.

The exhibit will be on display through January. It will move to Old Main in conjunction with the Lion Ambassadors Founder's Day activities in February 1997.


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Odyssey Through Literature

On the next episode of Odyssey Through Literature, English Professor Robin Schulze discusses the friendship between Marianne Moore and Wallace Stevens, two poets caught by "the changing slovenliness of nature." The two poets met early in their careers by reading each other's poetry in magazines. They began a correspondence, through which each learned from the poetry of the other, Schulze said.

Odyssey Through Literature is produced as a continuing education service of the Department of Comparative Literature. It airs Sundays at 6:30 P.M. on WPSU, 91.5 FM.


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Exhibits continue

Several exhibitions are continuing at the Palmer Museum of Art on the University Park Campus.

Abstraction to Figuration: Selections of Contemporary Art from the Pincus Collection brings together 26 works of modern to contemporary art from the collection of Gerry and David Pincus. The exhibition includes selections from Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Andres Serrano, Mark Rothko, William de Kooning, Robert Mapplethorpe and other contemporary artists. It continues through Dec. 15.

Cooking for the Gods: The Art of Home Ritual in Bengal focuses on Hindu ritual activity that expresses the private relationship between the worshiper and the gods in the eastern region of India known as Bengal. The exhibition runs through Dec. 8.

When Coal Was King: Paintings from the Steidle Collection, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences is an exhibition of 57 paintings, which are part of a collection devoted to Pennsylvania's mineral industries established by Edward Steidle during his tenure as dean of the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, from 1928-1953. It is on view until Dec. 8.


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