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The Counting Crows will play at The Bryce Jordan Center on Oct. 25. For information, call (814) 865-5555 or (800) 863-3336.
The Dixie Lion 5 played to the lunch crowd in the Kern Graduate
Commons on the University Park campus recently. Their performance was part
of a weekly series that will bring Tim and Elise to Kern at noon Oct. 17.
Bruce Young and Jesse will entertain there at noon Oct. 24.
Photo:Greg Grieco
The Penn State Glee Club and the Women's Chorale will present the 28th Annual Homecoming Concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 18, in Schwab Auditorium on the University Park campus.
The Glee Club will celebrate the 200th birthday of Franz Schubert by joining with guest tenor Richard Kennedy to perform several of Schubert's works for men's voices. The Glee Club also will premiere a new arrangement of "HullaBalooBalay" by the director, Bruce Trinkley.
The Women's Chorale is directed by Robert Drafall. The concert also will include performances by the Hi-Lo's and the Varsity Barbershop.
Alumni may join in singing Penn State football songs at the conclusion of the program.
Tickets are $7 for adults and $3 for students and are available at the Eisenhower Box Office. Call (814) 863-0255 for information.
Sarah Renzi, a piano performance major, will present her junior
recital at 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 18, in the School of Music Recital Hall
on the University Park campus. The concert is free to the public.
Evelynn Ellis, coordinator of minority programs in the College of Arts and Architecture and affiliate assistant professor in the School of Music, will present a free clarinet recital at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 19, in the School of Music Recital Hall on the University Park Campus. Anthony Leach, assistant professor of music education, will accompany Ellis on piano.
The program consists of compositions written specifically for clarinet and piano, combined with several arrangements for the two instruments.
Marylène Dosse, professor of music, will give a free piano recital at 8 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 19, in the School of Music Recital Hall on the University Park campus.
Dosse will perform an all-French music program. She will present the same program on tours of Japan and Paris in November. A fellow of the Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies, Dosse has recorded more than 25 albums and performed extensively in Europe, Africa, North and South America.
Award-winning Canadian organist Jan Overduin will play a recital at 8 p.m. Monday, Oct. 20, and will conduct a workshop on improvisation on Tuesday, Oct. 21. Both events will occur in the School of Music Recital Hall on the University Park campus.
Overduin's recital will be preceded by an explanation of the work at 7:15 p.m. The Oct. 21 workshop will feature demonstrations of improvisation techniques. Both are free to the public.
Overduin is professor of organ and church music at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, where he conducts the university choir. He is well-known as an improviser and has won prizes in internationally acclaimed competitions. He also is active as a community choral conductor and a church organist.
The Penn State Mallet Ensemble, directed by Dan Armstrong, professor of music, will perform for the Bach's Lunch concert at 12:10 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 23, 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 concert will include a xylophone solo performance by Teri Stephens, a senior in the music education program.
After the concert, audience members may take their bag lunches to the Roy and Agnes Wilkinson Lounge in the Eisenhower Chapel. Coffee and tea will be provided.
The Grout/Kauffman Award Exhibition is a presentation of unique works by five artists chosen by the jurors of the 1997 Nittany Lion Juried Exhibition. It will be held at Penn State Berks campus' Freyberger Gallery from Oct. 24-Dec. 5, with a free public reception from 5-7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 24.
The artists all are from southeast Pennsylvania, but their similarities end there. Richard Carlson from Whitehall uses a painting technique on board that results in intense colors in non-objective images. Leslie Eadeh from Wayne works in ceramics, creating unusual forms with a glaze technique. John Mathews from Bucks County is a sculptor who creates metal forms with an organic reference. David Nally of Reading, an award winner for the second time, creates work that is a discourse on today's society. Francine Strauss from Rydal creates mixed media works with a unique sense of composition and dynamics.
Admission is free to the public. For more information, call (610) 396-6099.
The exhibition "Photographs from the Stieglitz Circle, 1900-1930" will be on view through Sunday, Dec. 7, in the Palmer Museum of Art on the University Park campus.
Alfred Stieglitz is considered to be one of the most important figures in 20th century American art. His galleries supported American avant-garde painters from 1905 to the 1940s.
The exhibition presents 15 photographs by Stieglitz and photographers in his circle, as well as early portraits of the painters he championed.
