The Department of Music presented the Chamber Orchestra in a concert at 8:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. They played Georg F. Handel's Water Music Suite, Johann Sebastian Bach's "Laudamus Te", Antonio Vivaldi's "Concerto in A Minor", Carl Maria von Weber's "Concertino for solo clarinet and orchestra", and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in C Major".
The Department of Music presented Ustad Hamid Hossain in a concert at 8:00pm in Memorial Hall. Hossain played a program of North Indian music.
Cellist Deborah Milan gave a concert at 8:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. Accompanied by pianist Mark Nailor, Milan played Giuseppe Valentini's "Sonata in E Major", Benjamin Britten's "Suite for Cello", Alexander Scriabin's "Etude No. 5 in C-sharp Minor", Frederic Chopin's "Scherzo in B Minor", and Johannes Brahms' "Sonata No. 2 in F Major".
The Musicians of Swanne Alley gave a concert of music "From the Streets and Theatres of London".
The Department of Music presented the Mendelssohn String Quartet in a concert at 8:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall.
The Department of Music presented mezzo-soprano Brenda Smith in a faculty recital at 8:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall.
The Department of Music presented the third annual community-college sing-along in Rubendall Recital Hall. Led by Professors Fred Petty and Truman Bullard, the College-Community Orchestra, and the College Choir, the program featured Georg Frideric Handel's The Messiah.
The Department of Music presented the College Choir, College-Community Orchestra, Brass Ensemble, and Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet in the 1984 Christmas Concert at 3:00pm in Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium. They performed Tomas Luis de Victoria's "Ne Timeas Maria and "O Magnum Mysterium", Rafaella Aleotti's "Angelus ad Pastores ait" and "Facta est cum Angelo", Heinrich Schutz's "Lobe den Herren, Meine Seele", Benjamin Britten's "A Ceremony of Carols", Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Fantasia on Greensleeves", and excerpts from Piotr I. Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker.
The Department of Music presented the fourth Noonday Concert of the 1984-1985 academic year in Rubendall Recital Hall. Students and faculty performed three anonymously-written pieces entitled "Dime robadora", "Holla hoi per lanerta hoi", and "There is no rose"; Pierre Sandrin's "Douce Memoire"; Antoine Busnois' "Fortuna desperata"; Johann Sebastian Bach's "Flosst, mein Heiland"; Philippe Gaubert's "Divertissement grec"; Ludwig van Beethoven's "Variations on Ich Denke Dein"; Georg Philipp Telemann's "Suite in D Minor"; and Franz Joseph Haydn's "String Quartet in E-flat Major".
The Department of Music presented the Collegium Musicum in their annual concert in Rubendall Recital Hall.
The Department of Music presented the Buzz Jones Big Band in a concert at 8:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. They played George Gershwin's "Strike up the Band" and "I've got a Crush on You", Don Sebesky's "Big Mamma Cass", Duke Ellington's "Don't get around Much Anymore" and "Caravan", Billie Holiday's "God Bless the Child", Josef Zawinul's "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy", Erroll Garner's "Misty", Louis Prima's "Sing, Sing, Sing", Bob Mintzer's "Good News", Jerome's "Smoke gets in Your Eyes", and Billy Strayhorn's "Take the A Train".
The Department of Music presented classical guitarist Nathaniel Gunod in a faculty recital at 8:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. Accompanied by Amy Rosser on harpsichord, Gunod played Rudolf Straube's "Sonata III", Louis Couperin's "Pieces de clavecin en fa majeur", Johann Sebastian Bach's "Toccata in E Minor", Giovanni Pittoni's "Sonata VII" from Intavolatura di Tiorbi, S.L. Weiss' "Tombeau sur la Mort", Napoleon Coste's "La Ronde de Mai", Leo Brouwer's "Danze Caracteristica", and Nicola Matteis' "Suite in G Major".
The Department of Music presented the third Noonday Concert of the 1984-1985 academic year in Rubendall Recital Hall. Students and faculty performed Scott Whittle's "Study on Ode to Joy", Georg Philipp Telemann's "Sonata in F Minor", Ludwig van Beethoven's "Variations on La ci darem la mano" and "String Quartet in G Major", Louise Farrenc's "Trio in E Minor", and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Serenade in E-flat Major".
The Department of Music presented the students of the Flute Repertory class in a recital at 6:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall.
The Department of Music presented the Jazz Ensemble in their annual fall concert at 8:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. They played Berry Gordy, Jr. and Willie Hutch's "Hello, Detroit", Erroll Garner's "Misty", Andrew Lloyd Weber's "Cats", George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue", Jeff Holmes' "Junebug", Irving Berlin's "Blue Skies", Jerome Kern's "The Way you Look Tonight", Lawrence Lapin's "Jazz Fugue", Hoagy Carmichael's "Georgia on my Mind", Rube Bloom and Harry Ruby's "Give me the Simple Life", J.
The Department of Music presented professors Brenda Smith and Truman Bullard in the "Symbolism in Song" concert in Rubendall Recital Hall. They performed Gabriel Faure's "Clair de Lune" and "En Sourdine"; Reynaldo Hahn's "L'Heure exquise"; Claude Debussy's "C'est l'extase", "Il pleure dans mon coeur", and "Soupir"; Henri Duparc's "L'Invitation du Voyage"; Arnold Schoenberg's "Hain in diesen Paradiesen" and "Saget mir, auf welchem Pfade"; and Samuel Barber's "Tombeau dans un parc" and "Depart".
The Department of Music presented the College Choir, Collegium Musicum, College-Community Orchestra and Wind Ensemble in the annual Parents' Day Concert at 11:00am in Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium.
The Department of Music presented the second Noonday Concert of the 1984-1985 academic year in Rubendall Recital Hall. Students and faculty performed Leonhard Lechner's "Mein Grosse Lieb", Jacob Clemens' "Sinnen, Trauern, Furchten", Gregor Lange's "Gut G'sell", G.B. Sammartini's "Sonata in G Major for cello and piano", Joseph Bodin de Boismortier's "Sonata for three flutes", Johann Sebastian Bach's "Concerto in A Minor for violin and orchestra", Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Diverto in C Major", and Heinrich Schutz's "O Quam tu pulchra es".
The Cultural Affairs Committee presented the Duquesne University Tamburitzans in a performance at 3:00pm in Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium.
The Department of Music presented the Chamber Choir and Chamber Orchestra in a concert at 8:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. They performed Giuseppe Torelli's "Sinfonia a 4", Kent Kennan's "Night Soliloquy", Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Andante" and "Ave verum corpus", Camille Saint-Saens' "Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso", and Franz Joseph Haydn's "Symphony No. 72 in D Major".
The Department of Music presented the first Noonday Concert of the 1984-1985 academic year in Rubendall Recital Hall. Faculty performed Josquin Des Prez's "De Tour biens playne", Francis H. McKay's "Brass Quartet", Johann Sebastian Bach's "Prelude to Suite No.
The Department of Music presented flutist Martha Anne Sunderhauf in her senior recital at 8:00pm in Memorial Hall.
The Department of Music presented flutist Natalie Akehurst in her senior recital at 4:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall.
The Renaissance City Woodwind Quintet gave a concert at 8:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall.
The Cultural Affairs Committee presented pianist Caio Pagano in a concert at 8:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall.