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Penn State Opera Theatre will present "Opera Intermezzo," an evening of scenes from operas, at 8 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 20, 21 and 22, in the School of Music Recital Hall on the University Park campus. Opera Theatre is directed by Susan Boardman, associate professor of music.
General admission is $4.50. Tickets can be purchased in advance or at the door. For tickets or information call (814) 865-0431 or call Susan Boardman at (814) 863-0696.
The Annual Holiday Ornaments Exhibition and Sale will be held at the Palmer Museum of Art on the University Park campus from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 21, and from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 22.
Ornaments by artists from throughout Centre County will be exhibited and available for sale. In past years the ornaments have been made of sterling silver, ceramics, glass, paper or wire.
This year's commissioned commemorative ornament was made by Carol Sotkiewicz of Toledo, Ohio. For more than 20 years Sotkiewicz has used quilling -- tiny strips of coiled paper formed into circles and glued together to form a design -- to create her intricate ornaments or floral pictures.
As inspiration for her ornament design, Sotkiewicz used the deer motif on the A.D. sixth-century mosaic on view in the Ancient to 16th Century Gallery at the Palmer Museum.
The exhibition and sale is sponsored by the Friends of the Palmer Museum of Art. All proceeds from the ornament sale are used to benefit the museum.
The Penn State Symphonic Wind Ensemble will perform at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 24, in the School of Music Recital Hall on the University Park campus.
Admission is $3. Tickets are available before the concert in 233 Music Building I and at the door the night of the concert. For information, call (814) 865-0431.
The School of Music's Jazz II/III (also known as Inner and Outer Dimensions) will present a big band concert at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 2, in Recital Hall on the University Park campus. Inner Dimensions and Outer Dimensions are directed, respectively, by graduate students Richard Nasto and Christopher Bird.
The free concert will feature music from classic to modern big band jazz.
The Penn State Flute Ensemble will perform for the Bach's Lunch concert at 12:10 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 3, 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 Flute Ensemble consists of eight members. Eleanor Duncan Armstrong, associate professor of music, will direct the ensemble assisted by two student conductors, Catherine Hodges and Kristy Lynn Yeager.
After the concert, audience members may take their bag lunches to the Roy and Agnes Wilkinson Lounge in Eisenhower Chapel. Coffee and tea will be provided.
The University Band, conducted by David Teachout, assistant professor of music, and band graduate assistant James Latten, will present its premiere concert at 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 3, in the School of Music Recital Hall on the University Park campus.
Formed due to increased interest across the University in concert band membership, the 63-member band joins the Symphonic Wind Ensemble, the Symphonic Band, the Concert Band and the Campus Band as part of the artistic life of Penn State.
The concert is free to the public.
Shindana Cooper, an African American storyteller, offers characterizations of African American women like Sojourne Truth, and as a frightened slave "Who Walked with Harriet" at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 9, at the Perkins Student Center Theatre at Pen State Berks. She transforms into these characters and relates their stories, taking the audience from a small village in Africa to life on the plantation to a safe house in the underground railroad. Admission is free. For more information, call Doreen Fisher at (610) 396-6067.
Big Band '99 will take the stage of the Community Arts Center in Williamsport, part of Penn College, at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 26. Featuring The Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra conducted by trombonist Jim Miller, vocal quartet The Pied Pipers and vocalist Nancy Knorr (who recreated the stylings of Helen O'Connell), the evening brings back the time and music of the Dorsey brothers.
Tickets are $22.50 and $20, and will go on sale at 10 a.m. Monday, Dec. 7. For more information, call the box office at (717) 326-2424 or the NAC Omni line at (800) 432-9382.
* Clay Walker with the Dixie Chicks and Michael Peterson, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 20. Tickets: $23.50.
* Tori Amos with Unbelievable Truth, 8 p.m. Nov. 21. Tickets: $28.50 and $26.50.
* Amy Grant Christmas Show with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra featuring Michael W. Smith and CeCe Winans, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 29. Tickets: $32.50 and $27.50.
* Rugrats -- A Live Adventure, 7 p.m. Dec. 7-8, 4 and 7 p.m. Dec. 9. Tickets: $25, $20 and $15. Ask about discounts.
* Andy Williams Christmas Show, 7:30 p.m. Dec. 18. Tickets: $35 and $30.
Tickets can be purchased at the Bryce Jordan Ticket Center, Eisenhower Auditorium, selected Uni-Mart ticket outlets, Commonwealth college and campus ticket outlets, or by calling (814) 865-5555 or (800) 863-3336.
