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This month, hear the “Vocalise-Waltz for Saxophone, Horn and Piano” by Paul Basler, featuring three PSU faculty members; The Penn State Philharmonic playing dances from “The Three-Cornered Hat” by Manuel de Falla; and pianist Timothy Shafer playing the Piano Sonata in C, Op. 1, No. 1 by Johannes Brahms.

In Performance at Penn State is a monthly hour-long program that showcases performances from Penn State's School of Music. This month, hear the Penn State Philharmonic in the “Academic Festival Overture” by Johannes Brahms; a Beethoven String Quartet from the Penns Woods Music Festival; and the Penn State Chamber Orchestra playing Claude Debussy’s “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun,” as arranged by Arnold Schoenberg.

In Performance at Penn State is a monthly hour-long program that showcases performances from Penn State's School of Music. This month, from the Penns Woods Music Festival, we’ll hear the “Phantasy Quartet for Oboe and String Trio” by Benjamin Britten and the Symphony No. 1 by Charles Gounod and a performance by Penn State’s Oriana Singers.

In Performance at Penn State is a monthly hour-long program that showcases performances from Penn State's School of Music. This month, hear PSU faculty pianist Christopher Guzman playing Chopin in recital; Franz Schubert’s Symphony No. 5 in B-flat, from the Penns Woods Music Festival; and a prelude and fugue by Bach arranged by Mozart played with period performance practices by members of the Penn State Baroque Ensemble.

In Performance at Penn State is a monthly hour-long program that showcases performances from Penn State's School of Music. This month, hear a violin sonata by Cesar Frank, played by two PSU faculty members: Max Zorin, violin and Christopher Guzman, piano; and the Penn State Chamber Orchestra playing Beethoven’s overture to “The Creatures of Prometheus” and Stravinsky’s “Dumbarton Oaks” concerto.

In Performance at Penn State is a monthly hour-long program that showcases performances from Penn State's School of Music. This month, hear the lively suite, “Café Music” by Paul Schoenfield, played by musicians from the Penns Woods Music Festival. Then we’ll hear larger ensembles, led by two young women conductors studying at Penn State: hear the “Romeo & Juliet Fantasy Overture” by Tchiakovsky from the Penn State Philharmonic, conducted by Fernanda Lastra; and the “English Folk Song Suite” by Ralph Vaughan Williams, played by Penn State’s Concert band led by Leila Gil.

In Performance at Penn State is a monthly hour-long program that showcases performances from Penn State's School of Music. As we celebrate the 10th anniversary of the show, we hear the Overture on Hebrew Themes by Sergei Prokofiev from the Penns Woods Music Festival; the Penn State Concert Choir, led by Christoher Kiver, singing “Let’s Touch the Sky” by Louise Talma; and the Penn State Philharmonic, conducted by Gerardo Edelstein, in the Symphonic Dances by Sergei Rachmaninoff.

In Performance at Penn State is a monthly hour-long program that showcases performances from Penn State's School of Music. This month, hear Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-flat with pianist Steven Herbert Smith as soloist from the Penns Woods Music Festival; The Penn State Concert Choir, directed by Christopher Kiver singing “The Peace of Wild Things” by Cynthia Powell; and an oboe sonata by Francis Poulenc played on the saxophone by PSU facutly members David Stambler, saxophone and Christopher Guzman, piano.

This month, hear The overture to the opera “Cephale et Procris,” composed in 1694 by Elizabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre, played by the Penn State Early Music Ensemble; six songs by Johannes Brahms, arranged for cello and piano from the Penns Woods Music Festival; “Five Improvisations” by Amy Beach, played by PSU pianist Timothy Shafer; and a suite from the ballet, “Daphnis et Chloe” by Maurice Ravel, played by the Penn State Philharmonic Orchestra, led by Gerardo Edelstein.

This month, In Performance at Penn State observes Black History Month with an hour devoted to performances of music in the African and African American choral traditions by Penn State’s student choir, Essence of Joy. The program is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Anthony Leach, who leads the choir in all of the performances on this program. We’ll also hear some comments from Dr. Leach from a 2011 interview, and from the concert stage.