The Music Department presented a junior recital by cellist Catherine Best, accompanied by pianist Michal Schmidt, at 8:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. Best performed Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy's "Song Without Words, Op. 109", Johann Sebastian Bach's "Suite No. 1", Gabriel Fauré's "Elégie, Op. 24 for cello and piano", and Edouard Lalo's "Concerto in d minor for cello and piano".
The Music Department presented a Noonday Concert in Rubendall Recital Hall. Students and faculty performed Béla Bartók's "Dance in Bulgarian Rhythm No. 6"; Georg Philipp Telemann's "Quartet for Three Flutes and Continuo"; Henry Purcell's "No, Resistance is but Vain"; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Divertimento No. 2", "Clarinet Quintet K. 581", "Bei Männern", and "Pa-Pa-Pa-Pa-Papagena"; Dan Mouyard's "Mojo's Marbles"; and Paul Harvey's "Fantasia".
The Music Department presented a faculty recital by classical guitarist James Hontz, accompanied by pianist Jennifer Blyth, at 8:15pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. Hontz performed Fernando Sor's "Fantasie, Op. 30", Heitor Villa-Lobos' "Cinq Preludes", and Mauro Giuliana's "Concerto in A Major, Op. 30".
The Music Department presented "Metal Allies II," a concert featuring the Brass Ensemble and the Handbell Choir, at 3:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. The ensembles performed William Byrd's "The Earle of Oxford's March" (arr. Howarth), Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina's "Alleluia Tulerunt" (trans. Volkmann), Frédéric Chopin's "Polonaise 'Militaire'" (arr. Balm), Franz Joseph Haydn's "Saint Anthony Chorale" (arr. Fred Petty), Norman Dietz's "Modern Moods", F.W. Meacham's "American Patrol" (arr. Frackenpohl), Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera" (arr.
The Music Department, Market Square Concerts, and Bard Music Festival presented "Tchaikovsky Symposium: A Tribute to Truman Bullard" at 7:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. The concert featured Sergei Rachmaninoff's "Sonata in g minor, Op. 19" and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "Piano Trio in a minor, Op. 50".
The Music Department presented "A Musical Salute to Truman Bullard," featuring the College Choir, the College-Community Orchestra, and the Brass Ensemble, at 3:00pm in the Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium. The ensembles performed William Byrd's "The Earle of Oxford's March", Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Overture to The Impresario, K. 486", Edouard Lalo's "Concerto in d minor for Cello and Orchestra: Prelude", Robert Convery's "Peter Quince at the Clavier", Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Serenade to Music", and George Frideric Handel's "Psalm 100: The 'Utrecht' Jubilate".
The Music Department presented the Symphonic Band's 2000 Spring Concert at 3:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. The band performed John Barnes Chance's "Variations on a Korean Folk Song"; Samuel Barber's "Adagio" (arr. Calvin Custer); "A Leroy Anderson Portrait," an arrangement of Leroy Anderson's work by James Barnes; "Cole Porter on Broadway," an arrangement of Cole Porter's works by Warren Barker; and Henry Fillmore's "His Honor" (ed. Frederick Fennell).
The Music Department presented a recital and vocal master class by tenor Richard Kennedy of the Pennsylvania State University School of Music at 4:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. Kennedy performed George Frideric Handel's "Comfort Ye My People" and "Ev'ry Valley Shall be Exalted", Franz Schubert's "Im Abendrot" and "An Sylvia", Theodore Chanler's "Moo is a Cow", Samuel Barber's "There's Nae Lark", Robert Schumann's "Im Wunderschönen Monat Mai", and Henry Purcell's "No, Resistance is but Vain".
The Music Department presented a concert by the College-Community Orchestra and the Dickinson Collegium at 3:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. The ensembles performed George Frideric Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks and "O Praise ye the Lord with One Consent, HWV 254", Richard Strauss' "Serenade for Thirteen Wind Instruments, Op. 7", Tana M. Schiewer's "The Journey", and Sergei Prokofiev's "Lieuteneant Kije Symphonic Suite, op. 60".
The Music Department presented a senior recital by pianist Stephanie Heriger at 7:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. Heriger performed Johann Sebastian Bach's "Brandenburg Concerto No. 5" and "Capriccio on the Departure of His Beloved Brother", Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Sonata in B-flat Major, K. 570", J. Alexander Rembert's "A Day's Perspective", and Alexander Tcherepnin's "Bagatelles, Op. 5".
The Music Department presented a concert by the Jazz Ensemble at 8:00pm in the Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium. The ensemble performed Sammy Nestico's "Fun Time"; Jimmy Davis, Roger Ramirez, and Jimmy Sherman's "Lover Man"; Duke Ellington's "It Don't Mean a Thing"; Rodgers and Hart's "My Funny Valentine"; Josef Zawinul's "Birdland"; and Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil's "On Broadway".
The Music Department presented a Noonday Concert in the Rubendall Recital Hall. Students and faculty performed Darius Milhaud's "Pastorale"; Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy's "Concerto in g minor, Movement 1" and "Centerpiece No. 1 in f minor Op. 113"; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Bie Mannern", "Pa-Pa-Pa-Pa-Papaegena", and "Andante non troppo from Concerto in D Major, K. 314"; and Johann Sebastian Bach's "Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, Movement 1".
The College Choir performed with the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra at The Forum at 8:00pm on Sat., Feb. 26 and at 3:00pm on Sun., Feb. 27. The choir performed Emmanuel Chabrier's "Fête Polonaise from 'Le Roi malgré lui'".
Mezzo-soprano Lynn Helding and pianist Jennifer Blyth presented "An Evening of French Song" at 8:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. Helding and Blyth performed Gabriel Fauré's La Bonne Chanson, Maurice Ravel's Chansons Madécasses, and Francis Poulenc's Banalités.
Cellist Erin Bowers and pianist Teresa Bowers presented a concert at 7:30pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. The concert featured Arcangelo Corelli's "Sonata in D minor, Op. 5, No. 8", Stephen De'ak's "Allegro for solo cello", Max Bruch's "Kol Nidre, Op. 47", and Gabriel Fauré's "Elegie, Op. 24".
The Friends of the Trout Gallery presented "Music Box: An Evening with Grace Hartigan," beginning in the Rubendall Recital Hall at 5:00pm. Mezzo-soprano Lynn Helding and pianist Jennifer Blyth performed a concert of American songs, including Ernst Bacon's "It's All I Have to Bring", Charles Ives' "Two Flowers", Ned Rorem's "Early in the Morning", John Musto's "Litany", Christopher Berg's "Prelude: Fabian's Song: Is it Dirty?", William Bolcom's "Toothbrush Time", and Aaron Copland's "Simple Gifts". The program also featured live jazz by the Reunion Jazz Ensemble.
The Music Department presented a Christmas concert by the Collegium Musicum at 7:00pm on Dec. 4 and at 4:00pm on Dec. 5 in Memorial Hall. The ensemble performed Ralph Vaughan Williams' arrangement of "Wassail Song', Gustav Holst's "In the Bleak Midwinter" (arr. A.
The Music Department presented "Music with an English Accent," a concert featuring the College-Community Orchestra and the College Choir, at 3:00pm in the Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium. The ensemble performed Gioacchino Rossini's "Overture to Othello", Edward Elgar's "Concerto in e minor for cello and orchestra, Op. 85", and Franz Joseph Haydn's "Mass in d minor".
The Music Department presented a Noonday Concert in the Rubendall Recital Hall. Students and faculty performed Franz Liszt's "Liebestraume No. III", Arcangelo Corelli's "Concerto in D Major, Op. 6, No. 4", Pablo de Sarasate's "Introduction et Tarentelle", Gustav Holst's "In the Bleak Midwinter", Guillaume Costeley's "Allon, Gay Bergeres", Georg Philipp Telemann's "Concerto for Four Violins in D Major", Sergei Rachmaninoff's "Etude Tableaux No. VIII, Op. 33, No. 9", Niccolò Paganini's "Cantabile in D Major for Violin and Guitar", and Steve Reich's "Clapping Music".
The Music Department presented a fall concert featuring the Symphonic Band and the Brass Ensemble at 3:00pm in the Rubendall Recital Hall. The ensembles performed Claudio Monteverdi's "Nisi Dominus (Psalm 127)", Carl Teike's "Alte Kameraden", Adriano Banchieri's "Two Fantasias in Four Parts" (ed. S. Beck), John Philip Sousa's "Washington Post March" (arr. Battles/Holcombe), Dale Harpham and Sammy Nestico's "The Silver Quill" (arr. Nestico), Elliot Del Borgo's "Tryptich II", Carl Strommen's "On the Village Green", José Franco's "Agüero" (ed.
The Music Department presented a concert by the Baltic Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra of Riga, Latvia at 8:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. The orchestra performed Atli Heimir Sveinsson's "Doloroso", Edvard Grieg's "Two Melodies for String Orchestra", Carl Nielsen's "Lamentoso", Thorkell Sigurbjornsson's "Good Night", Jekabs Medins' "Legend", Jean Sibelius' "Romance in C", Hilding Rosenberg's "Little Piece of Violincello and Orchestra", and Arni Bjornsson's "Little Suite for String Orchestra".
The Eaken Piano Trio performed a concert featuring guest composer Benjamin Lees at 8:00pm in the Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium. The trio performed Joaquin Turina's "Trio No. 2 in b minor, Op. 76", Lees' "Trio No. 2 'Silent Voices'", and Johannes Brahms' "Trio No. 1 in B Major, Op. 8".
The Music Department presented a recital by pianist Joel Schoenhals at 8:15pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. Schoenhals performed Frédéric Chopin's "Preludes, Op. 28" and "Sonata No. 3 in b minor, Op. 58".
The Music Department presented a fall concert by the Jazz Ensemble and the College Choir at 8:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. The ensembles performed Karl Suessdorf's "Moonlight in Vermont" (arr. Frank Mantooth), Eubie Blake's "Memories of You" (arr. Frank Comstock), Davis and Ramirez's "Lover Man" (arr. Sammy Nestico), Aaron Copland's "Long Time Ago" and "Ching-a-Ring Chaw", Stephen Foster's "Beautiful Dreamer" (arr. Robert Lau), the spiritual "Plenty Good Room" (arr.
The Music Department presented a concert by the College-Community Orchestra featuring soprano Meagan Miller and violinist John Eaken at 3:00pm in the Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium. The orchestra performed Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's overtures to Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro, and The Abduction from the Seraglio, "Ah, fuggi il traditor!", "In qual eccesi...Mi tradi...", "Porgi amor", "E Susanna non vien...Dove sono i bei momenti", and "Martern aller Arten"; and Ludwig van Beethoven's "Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61".