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Penn State Intercom......April
19 , 2001
Lynn E. Drafall, associate professor of music, conducts the Oriana Singers, as they entertain the audience during a Bach's Lunch concert in the Helen Eakin Eisenhower Chapel on the University Park campus. The next Bach's Lunch concert will be at 12:10 p.m. Thursday, April 26, featuring the Penn State Horn Ensemble. For information, see the story on this page.
Photo: Greg Grieco
Bach's Lunch
The French Horn Ensemble will perform at the Bach's Lunch concert at 12:10 p.m. Thursday, April 26, in the Helen Eakin Eisenhower Chapel on the University Park campus.
The ensemble, which includes 24 undergraduate music majors, is co-directed by Lisa Bontrager, associate professor of music and Janna Frank, a doctoral student in the music education program. After the concert, audience members may take their bag lunches to the Wilkinson Lounge in Eisenhower Chapel. Coffee and tea will be provided.
Brassworks to perform
The Pennsylvania Brassworks, the faculty brass quintet in the School of Music, will present a concert at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 26, in the Esber Recital Hall, Music Building I, on the University Park campus.
The group is composed of performance faculty John Daniel, trumpet; Lisa O. Bontrager, horn; Mark Lusk, trombone; and Martin Erickson, tuba. Joining them is trumpeter Mitch Gabel, graduate performance student and former member of the U.S. Marine Band. The concert is free to the public.
Poetry festival
The 19th annual Hayfield Poetry Festival will be held Sunday, April 29, in Hayfield House at Penn State Wilkes-Barre.
The free event will feature workshops and readings by poet Jerry Wemple and Liz Rosenberg.
Wemple teaches at Bloomsburg University. Rosenberg is associate professor of English at Binghamton University.
Pre-registration is required for the morning workshops and luncheon. Book signings will follow the afternoon readings. A reception will follow.
For information or to register, call David Chin at (570) 675-9247 or e-mail dpc5@psu.edu.