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2016-17 Application and Audition Information
Auditions Now Open for Orpheus Singers
Musicology Professor Publishes Book about Mahler and Strauss
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Our audition dates for the 2016-17 school year are:...
The Orpheus Singers, an auditioned chamber choir comprised of community members and Penn State students, is looking to recruit new members. Founded and conducted by faculty member Christopher Kiver, the 32-voice choir comes together for specific projects, and has performed with the Pennsylvania Centre Orchestra, at the Music at Penn’s Woods Festival, the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, and as part of Leonard Bernstein’s Mass, presented by Penn State in 2013.
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Professor Charles Youmans’s latest book, Mahler & Strauss: In Dialogue, is now available from Indiana University Press. Using a wealth of documentary material, the book reconstructs the 24-year relationship between Mahler and Strauss through collage—"a meaning that arises from fragments." Fourteen different topics, all of central importance to the life and work of the two composers, provide distinct vantage points from which to view both the professional and...
Student Spotlight
Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate Yo-Jung Han, who has accepted a position as visiting assistant professor at Appalachian State University (NC) in the Hayes School of Music. She will teach courses in music methods for classroom teachers, and...
Faculty Spotlight
Congratulations to music education faculty member Darrin Thornton for his election to the Steering Committee of the the MayDay Group. The MayDay Group is an international think-tank of music educators which aims to identify, critique, and change...
Alumni Spotlight
Dennis Malfatti (’98 M.M. choral conducting) conducted the New England Symphonic Ensemble and a massed choir made up of selected choirs from Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana at Carnegie Hall in June 2016. The program included...