Performances, Films, and Exhibits

Rock band Blues Traveler performed to an audience of more than 1,300 at the Kline Center.

Pianist Nancy Bricard gave a concert at 8:00pm in Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium. She played Camille Saint-Saens' "Allegro Appassionato"; Gabriel Faure's "Nocturne in E-flat Major", "Nocturne in D-flat Major", and "Nocturne in F-sharp Minor"; Claude Debussy's "Masques" and "L'isle joyeuse"; and Maurice Ravel's "Menuet Antique", "Menuet sur le nom d'Haydn", and "Gaspard de la nuit". 

An exhibit of figurative and abstract paintings, sculptures, drawings, and etchings by professors Dennis Akin and Eric Weller opened in the Holland Union Building on Monday, February 15.

The Music Department presented the fourth Noonday Concert of the 1977-1978 academic year in Memorial Hall. The program for this concert included Giambattista Martini's "Largo"; Francesco Mancini's "Sinfonia to Hydaspes"; Anton von Webern's "Vor Fruhling", "Nachtgebet der Braut", and "Fromm"; Friedrich Kuhlau's "Divertissement No. 2"; Johann Joachim Quantz's "Trio Sonata in F Major"; Maurizio Cazzati's "La Bianchina"; and Alberto Ginastera's "Danza de la moza donosa from Danzas Argentinas" and "Allegro marcato".

The Music Department presented the Collegium Musicum in a concert held in Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium at 8:00pm.

The Department of Music presented the 1977 Christmas Concert at 3:00pm in Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium. The concert featured performances by the College-Community Orchestra, Brass Ensemble, Chamber Choir, College Choir, and Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet. Jean Sibelius' "Finlandia"; Ludwig van Beethoven's "Incidental Music to Goethe's Egmont"; excerpts from P.I.

The Music Department presented the third Noonday Concert of the 1977-1978 academic year in Memorial Hall.

Cellist Terry Braverman gave a concert at 8:30pm in Memorial Hall. Accompanied by pianist Pong-Hi Park and guitarist Allen Krantz, Braverman played Antonio Vivaldi's "Sonata for Cello and Continuo in E minor", Johann Sebastian Bach's "Cello Suite No. 6 in D Major", and Franz Schubert's "Sonata for Arpeggione and Piano in A minor". 

The Collegium Musicum and the Brass Ensemble gave a concert at the William Penn Memorial Museum. The event was a part of the Thursday College Concert Series at the museum. The program for the concert included Mouret's "Rondeau"; Machaut's "La messe de Notre Dame: Agnus Dei" and "Moult Sui"; the anonymously-written songs "Calligo terrae scinditur", "La Cara Cossa", and "The Coventry Carol"; Azzaiolo's "Al di dolce ben mio"; Purcell's "Music for Queen Mary II"; Senfl's "Ich armes Maidlein Im Bad"; Isaac's "Allelulia" and "Viderunt omnes"; and Couperin's "Saraband and Carillon".

The Department of Music presented G. Rebecca Anstine in her senior harp recital at 8:00pm in Memorial Hall. She played Jean-Philippe Rameau's "Gavotte" from Le Temple de la Gloire, Georg Friedrich Handel's "Tema con Variazioni", Giovanni Battista Pescetti's "Sonata in C Minor", Vincent Persichetti's "Serenade No. 10 for flute and harp", Claude Debussy's "Sonate pour flute, alto, et harpe"; and Carlos Salzedo's "Scintillation". 

The Department of Music presented the second Noonday Concert of the 1977-1978 academic year in Memorial Hall. Students and faculty performed such pieces as the anonymously-written songs "Caligo terrae scinditur/Virgo Maria, filia/unknown Tenor", "Irishe Ho-Hoan", and "Praeludium"; Jacques Offenbach's "Elle a fui la tourterelle"; Frederic Chopin's "Nocturne in F minor"; and Ralph Vaughn Williams' "The Dark Eyed Sailor", "The Spring Time of the Year", "Just as the Tide was Flowing", "The Lover's Ghost", and "Wassail Song".

The Chamber Choir gave a concert celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Boyd Lee Spahr Library at 7:30pm.  They sang Hans Leo Hassler's "Cantate Domino Canticum Novum"; Lodovico da Viadana's "Adoramus te, Christe and "How Firm a Foundation, ye Saints of the Lord"; Bela Bartok's "In the Village", "Boatman", and "See the Roses"; and Ralph Vaughan Williams' "The Dark Eyed Sailor", "The Spring Time of the Year", "Just as the Tide was Flowing", "The Lover's Ghost", and "Wassail Song". 

The Music Department presented the 1977 Parents' Day Concert at 11:00am in Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium. Featuring the Collegium Musicum, the College Choir, and the College-Community Orchestra, the program included Ottorino Respighi's "Ancient Airs and Dances", Henry Purcell's "O Sing Unto the Lord", selections from Leonard Bernstein's The Lark, and Charles Ives' "The Circus Band". 

The Department of Music presented the first Noonday Concert of the 1977-1978 academic year in Memorial Hall. Students and faculty performed such pieces as Frederic Chopin's "Waltz in C-sharp Minor", Giacomo Puccini's "In quelle trine morbide" and "O Mio Babbino Caro", two duets by Fernando Carulli, Georg Philip Telemann's "Sonata in C Minor" from Methodische Sonaten, and Joseph Bodin de Boismortier's "Sonata in D minor for three flutes". 

The Music Department presented a faculty concert benefiting the Alfred Swan Memorial Scholarship in Applied Music. The program included Georg Friedrich Handel's "Sonata in A Minor", "Meine Seele Hort im Sehen", and "Susser Blumen Ambraflokken"; Sy Brandon's "Music for an Auspicious Occasion"; Lennox Berkeley's "Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano"; Helmut Bornefeld's "Intonation III"; Carlisle Floyd's "The Tees on the Mountain"; Harold Zabrack's "Dreaming", "Song Without Words", and "Scherzo"; and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 4".

Danceteller, a modern dance company, performed at 8:00pm in Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium. The performance concluded the company's two-day residency during which they led workshops in modern technique, improvisation, and the relationships of voice to dance. 

Will Stutts, a Broadway actor known for his one-man plays, performed one of these plays, A Journey Through the Mind...Edgar Allan Poe, at 8:00pm in Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium.

Theatre Express, a Pittsburgh-based theatre company made up of Carnegie Mellon students and alumni, performed four plays during their residency on campus, which lasted from January 24-27. Their repertoire included Killing Game, Woyzeck, Cat's Cradle, and An Evening of Circus and Mime. All shows were performed at 8:00pm in Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium as a part of the Cultural Affairs Series. Theatre Express also led workshops during their stay in Carlisle. 

The Amado String Quartet gave a concert at 7:30pm. They played Mendelssohn's "Capriccio and Fugue in E Minor", Martinu's "Madrigals for Violin and Viola", and Brahms "String Quartet in B-flat Major". 

The Department of Music presented the eleventh Noonday Concert of the 1976-1977 academic year in Memorial Hall.

The Department of Music presented the Collegium Musicum in Musica Britannica at 8:00pm in Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium.

The Chamber Choir performed "A Program of Russian Music" at the University of Pittsburgh. The program included Sergei Rachmaninov's "To Thee, O Lord", and "Rejoice in the Lord"; Alfred Swan's "Stir Up the Embers Sevenfold", "Cherubic Hymn", and "Let Everything that Breathes Praise the Lord"; and six Russian folk songs arranged by Truman Bullard: "Glow of Evening", "As We Weave Golden Straw", "On the Sea", "Unhappily Married!", "Did You See a Hawk in the Heavens?", and "Skipping Through the Forest". 

The Department of Music presented its faculty recital at 8:00pm in Memorial Hall. Featuring Beth Bullard on flute and Allen Krantz on guitar, the concert included Pietro Locatelli's "Sonata in D Major for flute and guitar", Jacob van Eyck's "Doen Daphne d'over Schoon Maeght", Sylvius Leopold Weiss' "Tombeau and two Minuets", Francois Couperin's "Le Rossignol-en-amour" and "Les Petits Moulins a Vent", and Mauro Giuliani's "Grand Sonata in A Major for flute and guitar". 

Pianists Debbie Philo and Larry Weber gave a concert at 8:00pm in Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium. The first half of the program was performed by Philo and included Ludwig van Beethoven's "Sonata in F-minor", Frederic Chopin's "Berceuse", and George Gershwin's "Preludes for Piano". After the intermission, Weber played Beethoven's "Sonata in C-sharp minor"; Robert Schumann's "Soaring", "Why?", and "Whims"; and Aaron Copland's "Passacaglia".

The Music Department presented Jonathan Barnhart in his senior organ recital at 3:00pm at the Second Presbyterian Church. He played Samuel Scheidt's "When on the Cross the Savior Hung", Johann Sebastian Bach's "Prelude and Fugue", Jehan Alain's "Variations on a Theme of Clement Jannequin", Louis-Nicholas Clerambault's "Suite du Premier Ton", and Olivier Messaien's The Ascension.