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marvin hamlisch shares his talents with penn state
Penn State and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra collaborated in a week of special events on the University Park campus in March. Principal Pops Conductor Marvin Hamlisch and members of the orchestra participated in residency activities, concerts and discussions intended to allow students, faculty and local residents to learn from this leading music organization.
On Tuesday, March 28, Hamlisch led “Art of the Audition,” where Penn State musical theatre and vocal performance students “auditioned” for him, got his feedback, rehearsed further and auditioned again. This free event was open to the public and attendees included local high school students. On March 29, Hamlisch was the featured speaker at the Penn State Forum, the Faculty/Staff Club’s distinguished speaker series.
On March 30, the Pittsburgh Symphony Chamber Orchestra gave a concert in Schwab Auditorium. A discussion with concertmasters Andres Cardenes and Larry Loh preceded the performance. The chamber orchestra gave a second performance on March 31, with School of Music orchestra students. This “Side-by-Side Concert” benefited music scholarships.
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COVER CAPTIONSFirst row: 1) Undergraduate art major Taryn McMahon doing a performance art piece, called “Triskele,” which she completed for a foundry class. McMahon rolled cast aluminum balls inscribed with backwards text in ink and then printed them on fabric, revealing the “forward” text; 2) University Resident Theatre Company production of The Afghan Women, fall 2005. Second row: 1) Art history students study a painting in a museum in Italy; 2) Urban Arboretum: This image, generated in the Landscape Urbanism studio, investigated urban forestry strategies for dealing with landscape vacancy in Philadelphia. Third row: 1) Giotto Doubts, by Hagit Barkai, graduate student in art; 2) Landscape architecture and English graduate students co-mingle along the trail at Plummer’s Hollow (near Tyrone, Pa.), the home preserve written about by nature writer Marcia Bonta. The visit was part of a joint graduate seminar funded by the Institute for the Arts and Humanities; 3) The Penn State Philharmonic Orchestra performing in Zaragoza, Spain, as part of the VI International Season of University Orchestras. The Penn State orchestra was only the second American orchestra invited to participate. Pianist Steven Smith, professor of music, was featured as a soloist. Fourth row: 1) University Resident Theatre Company production of Bat Boy, fall 2005; 2) Graphic design student Angela Graham’s visualization of an historic event—the Great Train Robbery of 1874; 3) Design of a train station for midtown Manhattan by Ryan Lorey, fifth-year architecture student.
