Local Programs
Lights, camera, action!
Bright lights, big smiles and grand local performances await the audience of Music from Penn State. Created by WPSU-TV in collaboration with Penn State's Schools of Music and Theatre, the series highlights various musical groups and performers. Both students and faculty, including the world-renowned Castalia Trio, showcase the high-quality performance happening at Penn State.
Opera
Sunday, Febrary 24 at 7:00pm
Acclaimed director E. Loren Meeker produces “Die Fledermaus” on stage as we trace the history of opera and enjoy favorite arias and ensembles from Mozart, Strauss, Gilbert & Sullivan, and Leonard Bernstein by the students and faculty of Penn State’s Music Department.
Winter
Sunday, February 17 at 7:00pm
Seasonal music from Penn State’s String Ensemble, Chamber Singers, and Trombone Choir highlight this enchanting program that showcases the variety of musical talent found at the University Park Campus.
Centre Dimensions
Centre Dimensions, the premiere twenty-piece jazz ensemble at Penn State, performs a challenging repertoire of modern and classic jazz.
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Music Theatre Spotlight 2
The second installment of "Music Theatre Spotlight" features ten talented students in the Penn State Musical Theatre program takings center stage. Classic and contemporary showtunes are performed before a live audience in WPSU's intimate "studio cabaret."
The Castalia Trio
Featuring Penn State faculty members James Lyon on violin, Kim Cook on cello, and Marylene Dosse at the piano. The program includes four short works by Nicholas Rimsky Koraskov ("Interlude Oriental"), Isaac Albeniz ("Tango"), Rene de Boisdeffre ("By The Brook"), and Victor Herbert ("Serenade"). The featured work is the "Dumky Trio" (or Trio opus 90) by Antonin Dvorak. The concert was performed in the Great Hall of Schreyer House, the home of Penn State's president, Dr. Graham Spanier, who hosts the program.
The Pennsylvania Quintet
Featuring Penn State woodwind faculty members Eleanor Duncan Armstrong (flute), Tim Hurtz, (oboe), Smith Toulson (clarinet), Lisa O. Bontrager (horn), and Daryl Durran (bassoon). The program includes works by J.S. Bach, August Klughardt, and more contemporary composers Jurriaan Andriessen, Gilbert Vinter, and Philadelphian Arne Running. The concert was videotaped in the library of Schreyer House, the home of the president of Penn State.
The Pennsylvania BrassWorks Quintet
Featuring Penn State faculty members Langston Fitzgerald III on trumpet, Lisa O. Bontrager on horn, Mark L. Lusk on trombone, and Velvet Brown on tuba. Graduate student Louie Eckhardt, on trumpet, completes the quintet. The works of Ewald, Bozza and Bernstein are performed in the Pincus Gallery at Penn State's Palmer Museum of art.
Music Theatre Spotlight
"Music Theatre Spotlight" features seven talented seniors in the Penn State Musical Theatre program taking center stage. Classic and contemporary showtunes are performed before a live audience in WPSU's intimate "studio cabaret."
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