Center for the Performing Arts Celebrates Penn State's Birthday with Jazz and Cake
February 15, 2005
When jazz legends-in-the making Herbie Hancock, Michael Brecker and Roy Hargrove join talents at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 22, in Eisenhower Auditorium, their concert will include a birthday celebration for a university 150 years in the making.
The Grammy Award winners–collectively known as Directions in Music–are scheduled to perform works by modern masters of jazz plus a unique rendition of "Happy Birthday to U." The concert date coincides with the anniversary of Penn State's founding in 1855.
No birthday party would be complete without cake. Patrons attending the Directions in Music concert are invited after the performance to the Eisenhower main lobby to enjoy a cake decorated with the Penn State Sesquicentennial logo and blue-and-white-frosted cupcakes.
Among them, Hancock, Brecker and Hargrove have garnered more than 20 Grammys. On Feb. 13, Hancock earned his most recent Grammy, his ninth, for best jazz instrumental solo.
Tickets for the concert are on sale now at $35 for an adult; $22 for a full-time University Park student; and $28 for a person 18 and younger. For tickets and information, log on to www.cpa.psu.edu or phone 863-0255. Outside the local calling area, dial 1-800-ARTS-TIX. Tickets are also available at Eisenhower Auditorium, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays; Penn State Tickets Downtown in the lobby of State College‚s Penn State Downtown Theatre Center, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday; HUB-Robeson Center Information Desk, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. weekdays; and Bryce Jordan Center, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
Jacki Hunt sponsors the performance. Radio station 93.7 The Bus is the media sponsor. Artistic Viewpoints, sponsored by the Center for the Performing Arts Community Advisory Council, provides insight from an artist or expert perspective and is offered free to interested ticket holders in the Eisenhower Auditorium Conference Room one hour before the performance.
Contact: Laura Sullivan (814) 863-6379