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This oil on canvas by American artist Jerome Witkin, titled Jeff Davies, is part of the Palmer Museum of Art's permanent collection. The work is a gift of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Hassam and Speicher Purchase Fund. It can be viewed in the museum's Pincus Gallery of Contemporary Art.
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At the Palmer
Male and Female Chi Wara Headdresses from the Bamana people of Mali, Africa, and other pieces from the Wood Collection of the Heard Museum will be on display at the Palmer Museum of Art on the University Park Campus beginning April 8. The pieces are part of the "Exotic Illusions: Art, Romance and the Marketplace" exhibit, which will be on display through June 15. |
Pianist David Buechner will present a free Yamaha Concert Artist recital at 8 p.m. Friday, April 4, in the College of Arts and Architecture's School of Music Recital Hall on the University Park campus.
Buechner has been described as one of America's most exciting and innovative pianists. He is a graduate of the Juilliard School and the Manhattan School of Music. In his 20s, Buechner won major prizes at most of the world's prestigious piano competitions. He is a member of the faculties of New York University and the Manhattan School of Music, where he lectures in piano literature in addition to his teaching of piano and chamber music. He plays the Yamaha piano exclusively.
Courtney L. Mundy, pianist, and Matthew Alercia, trumpet, will present a free dual recital at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 5, in the College of Arts and Architecture's School of Music Recital Hall on the University Park campus.
On the April 6 episode of Odyssey Through Literature, Elizabeth Maxwell, independent scholar and widow of international publisher Robert Maxwell, speaks about the world denied by the denial of the Holocaust.
Odyssey Through Literature is produced as a continuing education service of the Department of Comparative Literature. It airs Sundays at 6:30 on WPSU, 91.5 FM from University Park and 106.7 FM in Altoona, and on WPSB, 90.1 in northern Pennsylvania. The complete semester's schedule can be found on the World Wide Web at http://mickey.la.psu.edu/complit/odyssey/odyssey.htm
The School of Music's Composers Concert will be held at 8 p.m. Sunday, April 6, in the College of Arts and Architecture's School of Music Recital Hall on the University Park campus.
The concert, which takes place every semester, presents new works by students of Penn State composition teachers Paul Barsom and Bruce Trinkley.
The concert is free to the public.
Pianist Stephen Herbert Smith, professor of music, and colleagues from the School of Music will present an evening of Franz Schubert's lieder and chamber music at 8 p.m. Monday, April 7, in the College of Arts and Architecture's School of Music Recital Hall on the University Park campus.
This "Schubertiade," as such evenings were called in the composer's lifetime, joins other concerts both locally and worldwide in honoring Schubert for the bicentennial of his birth in 1797. The evening will include the voices and the playing of a number of faculty members.
The concert is free to the public.
"Exotic Illusions: Art, Romance and the Marketplace," premiering nationally when it opens on Tuesday, April 8, at the Palmer Museum of Art on the University Park campus, is an exhibition that challenges traditional definitions of "exotic," "primitive" and "authentic" as they relate to non-Western art and artifacts by exploring the role of consumers in the creation and distribution of such objects.
Conceived by The Heard Museum in Phoenix, "Exotic Illusions" was organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service. "Exotic Illusions" will be on view until June 15.
Peter Welsh, curator of the exhibition and professor of anthropology at Arizona State University, will present a lecture on "Museums and the Culture of Commodities" on Thursday, April 24, at 7:30 p.m. in the Palmer Lipcon Auditorium at the Palmer Museum of Art.
The exhibition "School of Visual Arts University Scholars Program Exhibition" will be on display from Wednesday, April 9, to Wednesday, April 16, in the Zoller Gallery in the Visual Arts Building on the University Park campus.
The exhibition will showcase the work of four University Scholars in the School of Visual Arts. An opening reception will be held on Wednesday, April 9, from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Zoller Gallery.
Voice Students from the Penn State Opera Theatre will perform at the Bach's Lunch concert at 12:10 p.m. Thursday, April 10, 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 and the University Lutheran Parish.
The Penn State Opera Theatre is directed by Susan Boardman, associate professor of music. The students will perform excerpts from professor Bruce Trinkley's new opera, Eve's Odds. The libretto was written by Jason Charnesky, a doctoral candidate and teaching assistant in the Department of English.
Audience members may to take their own bag lunches to eat after the concert in the Roy and Agnes Wilkinson Lounge. Coffee and tea will be provided.
Dani Maseng will perform a one-man show, "Wasting Time with Harry Davidowitz," at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 17 in Kern Auditorium on the University Park campus. Written and arranged by this Israeli-born performer, the show takes the audience through Maseng's personal voyage, from Shabbat dinners with his grandparents, to a beatnik camp in Eilat, to 14 years with a Zen teacher and back to Judaism. The performance is sponsored by the Penn State Hillel Foundation. For information, call (814) 863-3816.
The Ice Pavilion will present "ICE RHYTHMS," an ice show directed by Dena Yeagley at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 25, and Saturday, April 26, in the Greenberg Sports Complex on the University Park campus. The program will include solos by visiting national and international figure skating competitors, featuring Michael Weiss, current U.S. Nationals Senior Men's Silver Medalist and World Team member, representing the Washington Figure Skating Club. ICE RHYTHMS also will feature the junior pairs team of Carissa Guild and Andrew Muldoon, 1996 U.S. National Competitors, members of the 1997 World Junior Team representing The Philadelphia Skating Club and Humane Society, and the University of Delaware Figure Skating Club. Also included will be solos and group numbers by resident professionals and skaters from student and public programs.
Advance general admission tickets are $5.50 for students/youth, and $7.50 for adults. Advance tickets can be purchased at the Penn State Ice Pavilion main counter. Tickets purchased April 25 and 26 will be $7 and $9. Tickets are available by mail by calling (814) 865-4102.
The multi-media exhibit "The Otherside of the River" is on display in the Gallery Lounge at the Penn State Harrisburg campus through May 9. The original art works of five faculty members, Kathy T. Hettinga, Catherine Porter Prescott, Donald John Forsythe, Christine A. Forsythe and Stephen Fieser, all from Messiah College's art department, are featured.
