CrossCurrents2 Offer Free Concert in Stuckeman Family Building
March 5, 2007
CrossCurrents2, a concert of new music and multi-media, will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 31, in the Stuckeman Family Building, 4th floor, on the Penn State University Park campus. The concert will be free and open to the public.
The Stuckeman Family Building, which houses Penn State's School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, was completed in 2005. It was designed to meet the U.S. Green Building Council's national criteria for certification as environmentally friendly, sustainable architecture. The building features a number of interesting presentation areas. The amphitheatre-like area of the Stuckeman Family Building's Forum North, where the concert will take place, allows viewing from a number of perspectives, either in a traditional seating area or from above the stage.
The program will feature the premiere of a new work for solo flute written for the event by Penn State alumnus Peter Buckland (’05 M.M. Music Composition), performed by Agatha Wang. Titled “Pei,” the work draws its inspiration from the work of architect I.M. Pei, and is meant to suit the architectural environment of this performance.
The concert will also feature a performance from new media artist, composer and jazz pianist Mark Polishook (http://polishook.org/),who is appearing at Penn State as part of the Penn State School of Visual Arts' Anderson Lecture Series, with additional support from the School of Music and the University Park Allocation Committee.
The evening will also include performances by Robert Dansby (http://calarts.edu/schools/art/faculty/dansby.html), Garth Zeglin and Ian Brill (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~garthz/),as well as Penn State faculty members Mark Ballora (http://www.music.psu.edu/Faculty Pages/Ballora/),Matt Kenyon (http://www.sova.psu.edu/kenyon.html) and Carlos Rosas (http://www.sova.psu.edu/rosas.html).
For more information, go to http://www.emitto.net/crosscurrents2.
Contact: Mark Ballora, 863-3386, ballora@psu.edu