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"Sounds of the 20th Century"
Spring 2008 Concert of the Penn State Behrend Concert & Chamber Choirs
Friday, May 2 and Saturday, May 3 at 8pm
Smith Chapel
D. Jason Bishop, conductor
Sung-Hui Elberfeld, accompanist
Program to feature works of the 20th century, including Leonard Bernstein's masterpiece, Chichester Psalms
Pre-concert lecture on Bernstein's Chichester Psalms to begin at 7:30pm
Guest instrumentalists to include:
Erik Meyer, organist at Luther Memorial Church in Erie
Sonja Inglefield, harpist
Robert Roth, Professor of Percussion at Allegheny College
Devin Hinchman & Konstantin Deyev, boy soprano soloists from the Cathedral of St. Paul
Did you ever wonder what goes into writing a textbook?
Find out from one of Behrend's resident experts, Dr. Dan Frankforter, Professor of History, who will give a public lecture on his adventures in textbook writing at 4:30pm Tuesday, April 29th in Logan House. Dr. Frankforter's latest textbook, The West: A Narrative History (coauthored with William Spellman), will be coming out in a second edition in 2008.
Dr. Frankforter's talk will be preceded by a reception in Logan House beginning at 4pm.
An Evening of Song
Monday, April 21, 2008
7:30 p.m. in the Larry and Kathryn Smith Chapel
Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, hosts an evening of English, French, German and Italian art songs presented by Salvatore Champagne, associate professor of singing at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, on Monday, April 21.
Salvatore's recital will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Larry and Kathryn Smith Chapel and is free and open to the public. He will be accompanied by John Champagne, his brother and an associate professor of English at Penn State Behrend.
Salvatore Champagne began his professional singing career as soloist for the European tour of Leonard Bernstein's Songfest. He then joined the ensemble of the Badisches Staatstheater in Karlsruhe, Germany, appearing in a wide range of lyric tenor roles, including Mozart's Tamino, Rossini's Almaviva, and Strauss's Henry. Guest engagements took him to some of Europe's most prestigious opera houses: Operhaus Zurich, Opera du Rhin in Strasbourg, Teatro Bellini in Catania, and the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich.
In addition to his operatic performances, Champagne is a frequent concert and recital singer. He has appeared with the London Philharmonia, Cologne Philharmonic, and VARA radio orchestra, and received numerous awards, including prizes at the 1989 Mirjam Helin Competition in Helsinki and the 1990 International Vocal Competition in s'Hertogenbosch, Holland. He joined the Oberlin faculty in 2004.
So come and join us at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 21st in the Smith Chapel for an evening of music and song. This event is both free and open to the public so bring a friend.
Read the full story at: http://www.pserie.psu.edu/newscal/news2008/apr-SalvatoreChampagne.htm
Looney, Noyes to Read from Their Newest Works
Thursday, April 17, 2008
6:00 p.m. in the Larry and Kathryn Smith Chapel
Free and Open to the Public
“In Hymn of Ash, tormented and traumatized visitors appear from nowhere to tell tales that bring their listeners into a strange awareness of themselves and their ties to the world,” says Brian Evenson, author of Altmann’s Tongue, The Wavering Knife, and The Open Curtain.
Looney’s previous books include The Precarious Rhetoric of Angels, winner of the White Pine Press Poetry Prize, Attendant Ghosts, and Animals Housed in the Pleasure of Flesh, winner of the Bluestem Poetry Award. He is chair of the college’s B.F.A. program and editor-in-chief of Lake Effect, as well as co-director of The Chautauqua Writer’s Festival.
Tom Noyes, assistant professor of English/Creative Writing, will read from Spooky Action at a Distance and Other Stories (Dufour Editions, 2008), a collection of short fiction that was runner-up for the Association of Writers and Writing Programs’ 2006 Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction.
“…His fiction is wonderfully wry and compassionate, and, yes, spooky,” says Dan Chaon, author of Among the Missing.
Noyes’ first book, Behold Faith and Other Stories was short-listed for Stanford University Library’s William Saroyan International Prize for Writing and reviewed favorably in many publications, including the New York Times Book Review, where it was praised for its macabre wit and startling confessions of frailty and delusion.