The Department of Music presented the 1980 Parents' Day Concert at 11:00am in Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium. The College Choir, Collegium Musicum, and College-Community Orchestra performed Vaclav Nelhybel's "Three Intradas, Georges Bizet's "L'Arlesienne Suite No. 2", Heinz Werner Zimmerman's "Psalmkonzert", and Ludwig van Beethoven's "Hallelujah Chorus".
The Department of Music presented the first Noonday Concert of the 1981-1982 academic year in Memorial Hall. Students and faculty played Samuel Scheidt's "Canzon Cornetto", Jacques Ibert's "Cinq Pieces en trio", and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Quintet for Piano, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn and Bassoon".
Cultural Affairs presented Mozart on Fifth in a concert at 8:00pm in Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium. They played Mozart's "Largo" and "Divertimentti"; Joplin's "The Entertainer", "Solace", "Ragtime Dance", "Moonlight Serenade", "Easy Winners", "Pineapple Rag", and "Maple Leaf Rug"; McCartney's "When I'm 64" and "Eleanor Rigby"; the anonymously-written pieces "Number 12" and "Green Point Polka"; and Weil's "September Song".
The Carlisle Woodwind Quintet gave a concert at 7:30pm in Mathers Theatre as a part of the 1981 Chautauqua Series. They played Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Divertimento No. 9", Ulysses Kay's "Prelude for Unaccompanied Flute", M. Boucard's "Suite Chametre for Flute and Horn", Jacques Ibert's "Cinq Pieces en trio", Michael Haydn's "Divertimento in D Major", and Anton Reicha's "Woodwind Quintet in E-flat Major".
The Department of Music presented the eleventh Noonday Concert of the 1980-1981 academic year in Memorial Hall. Students and faculty performed Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Divertimento for Winds" and "Sonata in E Major", Heinrich Schutz's "O quam tu pulchra es", Luca Marenzio's "Zefiro torna", Carlo Gesualdo's "Tenebrae factae sunt", Gerald Finzi's "It was a lover and his lass" and "I said to love", and Harrison Boyle's "Equinoxes".
An adjudicated Wind Festival was held on April 22. Redland High School Symphonic Concert Band, Boiling Springs High School Band, Cumberland Valley High School Symphonic Band, Bermudian Springs High School band, Cedar Cliff Symphonic Wind Ensemble, James Buchanan High School Concert Band, and Cumberland Valley High School Concert Band performed in this event.
The Department of Music presented the tenth Afternoon Concert of the 1980-1981 academic year at St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church at 3:15pm. Students and faculty performed Max Reger's "Toccata"; Jeremiah Clarke's "Trumpet Voluntary"; Henry Purcell's "Trumpet Tune"; Louis Couperin's "Chaconne"; Johann Sebastian Bach's "Fugue in G Minor", "Fiddle Fugue", "Sheep May Safely Graze", and "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor"; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Adagio and Rondo"; and Jean Langlais' "Epilogue for Pedal solo".
The Department of Music presented mezzo-soprano Andrea Jaber and pianist Thomas Jaber in a concert at 8:30pm in Memorial Hall.
The Department of Music presented the College Choir and the College-Community Orchestra in their annual spring concert in Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium. They performed Henry Purcell's "O Sing unto the Lord", Aaron Copland's "Billy the Kid", Harrison Boyle's "Equinoxes", Camille Saint-Saens' "Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso", and Aleksandr Borodin's "Polovtsian Dances".
The Department of Music presented flutist Edward Schultz and pianist Tedd Diddon in a concert at 7:30pm in Memorial Hall. They played Francois Couperin's "Air" from L'Apotheose de Lully, Johann Sebastian Bach's "Sonata for flute and keyboard in A Major", Robert Schultz's "Tsur Mehora" , Gabriel Faure's "Fantaisie pour flute and piano", Luciano Berio's "Sequenza per faluto solo", and Carl Reinecke's "Sonata for Flute and Piano in E Minor".
The piano duo of Millette Alexander and Frank Daykin gave a concert at 8:00pm in Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium. They played Bach/Hess' "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring"; Ravel's "Pavane of the Sleeping Beauty", "Hop O' My Thumb", "Little Ugly, Empress of the Pagodas", "Beauty and the Beast", and "The Enchanted Garden"; Brahms' "Variations on a theme by Haydon" and "16 Waltzes"; Poulenc's "Sonata"; and Debussy's "Fetes".
The Department of Music presented the eighth Noonday Concert of the 1980-1981 academic year in Memorial Hall. Students and faculty performed Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's "March-Fanfare", Georg Philipp Telemann's "Toccata", Nicolas Tcherepnin's "Chorale" and "The Hunt", George F. Handel's "Sonata in F Major", Angy Palumbo's "Petite Bolero", Gabriel Faure's "Lydia", C.P.A.
The Department of Music presented pianist Barry Hannigan in a concert in Memorial Hall. He played Olivier Messiaen's "Le Traquet Stapzin", Ludwig van Beethoven's "Sonata in A Major", and Toru Takemitsu's "For Away".
Tenor Cary Michaels and pianist Thomas Jaber gave a concert at 7:30pm in Memorial Hall. They performed George F. Handel's "Where'er you walk" and "He that dwelleth in heaven...Thou shalt break them with a rod"; Christoph Willibald Gluck's "J'ai perdu ma Euridice"; Ludwig van Beethoven's "Adelaide"; Francesco Paolo Tosti's "Marechiare", "Ideale", and "La Sernata"; Benjamin Britten's "Sally Gardens", "Polly Oliver", "Earl O'Moray", and "The Ploughboy"; and Joaquin Nin's "El amor es como un nino", "Corazon que en prison", and "Tirana".
The Department of Music presented the seventh Noonday Concert of the 1980-1981 academic year in Memorial Hall. Students and faculty performed Anton Reicha's "Quintet in C Major", Josquin des Pres' "Una musque de Buscgaya" and "Mille Regretz", Agostino Agazzari's "Congratulamini mihi omnes", George Frideric Handel's "Susse Stille", Camille Saint-Saens' "Printemps qui commence", and Frederic Chopin's "Waltz in A Minor".
The Department of Music presented the College Choir and College-Community Orchestra in a pops concert at 3:00pm in Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium.
The Department of Music presented the Jazz Ensemble in "Concert I" at 7:30pm in Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium. They played Wonder's "Another Star", Bricusse's "Who can I Turn to?", Forrest's "Night Train", Mancini's "Peter Gunn", Strohman's "Blues for Yardbird" and "Gettin' it Together", Woods' "Paul", Lennon-McCartney's "Norwegian Wood", Zawinul and Kerchner's "Birdland", Golson's "Killer Joe", Becker-Fagen's "Deacon Blues", Ellington's "Tribute to the Duke", Taylor's "You Too", Chattaway's "Island Girl", and Nestico's "Switch in Time".
The Friends of the Library presented chanteuse Janet Leyon, pianist Truman Bullard, and drummer Joseph Raduazzo in "An Evening with Cole Porter" at 8:00pm in Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium. They performed Porter's "Another Openin', Another Show", "It's Delovely", "You're the Top", "You Don't Know Paree", "Blow, Gabriel, Blow", "Do I Love You?", "Thank You So Much, Mrs.
Cultural Affairs and the Department of Music presented the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra in a concert at 8:00pm. They played Samuel Barber's "Capricorn Concerto" and Gustav Mahler's "Symphony No. 1 in D".
The Department of Music presented the sixth Noonday Concert of the 1980-1981 academic year in Memorial Hall. Students and faculty performed a banjo solo entitled "Foggy Mountain Breakdown", Isaac Albeniz's "Granada" and "Zambra Granadina", a selection of American folk songs, three dances from Greek and Khalmuk cultures, and four spirituals: "Give me the mind, Lord", "Steal Away", "Wade in the water" and "The blood will never lose its power".
The Violent Femmes performed at the Kline Center to a crowd of about 950. Many students believed that the act is sub-par, and about two-thirds of the tickets are sold to non-students.
The United States Army Field Band and Soldiers' Chorus gave a concert at 8:00pm in the Kline Life/Sports Learning Center. They performed Wolpe's "Patriotic Prologue", Sousa's "The Thunderer" and "Stars and Stripes Forever", Strauss' "Overture" from Die Fledermaus, Laurent's "Oscar's Songbook of the Seventies", Dukas' "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", Mendelssohn's "Concert Piece No.
The Department of Music presented violinist John Eaken in a concert at 8:00pm in Memorial Hall. Accompanied by pianist Susan Eaken, he played Ludwig van Beethoven's "Sonata No. 1 in D Major", Giuseppi Tartini's "The Devil's Trill", Eugene Ysaye's "Les Furies", Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "Concerto in D Major", Alan Hovhaness' "Khirgiz Suite", and Pablo de Sarasate's "Playera" and "Caprice Basque".
Professor of Music Truman Bullard gave a concert entitled "From Rags to Richesses: Early American Piano Stylings". He played Scott Joplin's "The Easy Winners"; James Scott's "Grace and Beauty"; George Cobb's "The Russian Rag"; Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton's "King Porter Stomp"; Farrell and Sizemore's "Down and Out Blues"; Clarence Williams' "Sugar Blues Boogie"; Thomas "Fats" Waller's "Keepin' Out the Mischief Now" and "African Ripples"; and George Gershwin's "Swanee", "'S Wonderful", "Liza", and "I Got Rhythm".
The Department of Music presented the fifth Noonday Concert of the 1980-1981 academic year in Memorial Hall. Students and faculty performed Henry Purcell's "Fanfare: Air", "Rejoice in the Lord always", and "Strike the viol"; Francois Couperin's "La Convalescente"; Domenico Scarlatti's "Two Sonatas in G Major"; Richard Strauss' "Die Nacht"; Michael Head's "When I think upon the maidens"; R.M.