Arts
& Entertainment
Penn State Intercom......February
22 , 2001
The Center for the Performing Arts presents "Tango Pasion" at 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 24, in Eisenhower Auditorium on the University Park campus.
'An Afternoon with the Arts'
Penn State Abington will continue its "An Afternoon with the Arts" program at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 25, with a lecture by Don Liuzzi, principal timpanist with the Philadelphia Orchestra. The program will be held in 112 Woodland Building.
Liuzzi will lecture on Takemitsu's "From Me Flows What You Call Time" and Stravinsky's "The Firebird." The orchestra series features guest speakers who will lecture on the upcoming performances of the Philadelphia Orchestra.
The fee to attend a single lecture is $15 and $5 for senior citizens. The program is free to students with an identification card.
For more information or to register, call (215) 881-7368.
Flute concert
The Penn State Flute Studio will present its spring semester concert at 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 25, in the Esber Recital Hall, Music Building I, on the University Park campus. Students of Eleanor Duncan Armstrong, associate professor of flute, and Christina E. Andrae, graduate teaching assistant in flute, will perform. The concert is free to the public.
Symphonic Wind Ensemble
The Symphonic Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Dennis Glocke, associate professor of music, will present a concert at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 28, in the Esber Recital Hall, Music Building I, on the University Park campus. Dan C. Armstrong, professor of music, will be timpani soloist. Tickets are $3 and are available at the door before the performance.
Bach's Lunch
The Penn State Glee Club, directed by Steven Zopfi, instructor of music, will perform at the Bach's Lunch concert at 12:10 p.m. Thursday, March 1, in the Helen Eakin Eisenhower Chapel on the University Park campus.
After the concert, audience members may take their bag lunches to the Wilkinson Lounge in Eisenhower Chapel. Coffee and tea will be provided.
Exhibit
"An Artistic Friendship: Beauford Delaney and Lawrence Calcagno," will be on display Feb. 27 through May 13 at the Palmer Museum of Art on the University Park campus.
The exhibit examines the close artistic and personal friendship between two important 20th century artists. At first glance, Beauford Delaney and Lawrence Calcagno might seem like an unlikely pair. Delaney (1901-1979), a black American from Knoxville, Tenn., spent most of his mature life as an expatriate artist in Paris. Lawrence Calcagno (1913-1993), a white American from northern California, spent much of his peripatetic career in the United States and in Europe in search of a place to call home.
A gallery talk on the exhibit by curator Joyce Robinson is planned for noon Wednesday, March 14, at the museum.
Also in conjunction with the exhibition the Palmer Museum of Art will sponsor a multimedia theatrical production, "Standing in the Light," at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 20; 2 p.m. Saturday, April 21; 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 27; and at 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 28, in the Palmer Lipcon auditorium at the museum.
Conceived and directed by Charles Dumas, associate professor of theatre, this original, three-character piece explores the emotional intricacies of the friendship between Delaney and Calcagno, as narrated by their mutual friend, the black writer James Baldwin.
For ticket information, call (814) 865-7672.
AIDS Memorial Quilt
A portion of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, the traveling tribute to the many lives lost to the disease, will be displayed March 2-3 at the Field House at Pennsylvania College of Technology.
Twenty-two, 12-foot-by-12-foot "building blocks" of the quilt -- enough to fill the floor of the Field House -- will be exhibited from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday, March 2, and from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, March 3. Each block contains eight colorful panels from the same region.
Presentations on the history of the AIDS Memorial Quilt are scheduled for 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Friday, March 2. The event is being sponsored by the Student Activities Office, the Residence Life Office and Bi, Gay, Lesbian and Allies in Dialog at Penn College.
For more information about the event, call (570) 326-3761, extension 7874.