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In Performance at Penn State is a monthly hour-long program that showcases performances from Penn State's School of Music. This month, hear an opera overture by Domenico Cimarosa from the Penns Woods Music Festival Orchestra; the Penn State Philharmonic in the overture, “From the South” by Sir Edward Elgar; and PSU faculty members Margaret Fey, bassoon and Timothy Shafer, piano in a piece called “Mathematics” by contemporary composer Alyssa Morris.

This month, hear “Le Tombeau de Couperin” by Maurice Ravel, from the Penn's Woods Music Festival; a sonata for clarinet and piano by Marion Bauer from a faculty recital; The Penn State Glee Club singing Franz Biebl’s “Ave Maria” and “Elegy for a Young American,” written in tribute to President John F. Kennedy by Ronald Lo Presti and played by the Penn State Symphonic Band.

This month, hear Tchaikovsky’s “Rococo Variations” for cello and orchestra from the Penns Woods Music Festival, featuring cellist Kim Cook; “Two Eastern Pictures” by Gustav Holst, performed by the Oriana Singers; and Two Rhapsodies by Charles Martin Loeffler for Oboe, Viola and Piano, played by oboist Andreas Oeste, violist Tim Deighton, and pianist Melody Quah.

This month, hear the overture, “Le Corsaire” by Hector Berlioz, played by the student musicians of the Penn State Philharmonic, conducted by graduate assistant conductor Tomás García; and the Piano Quintet No. 2 in A by Antonin Dvorak played by Penn State faculty violinist Max Zorin with members of the One Music International Ensemble.

This month, hear the “Premier quatour” by Debussy: the first movement of his string quartet arranged for saxophone quartet by Vincent David; The “Danse macabre” by Camille Saint-Saens played by Penn State faculty members James Lyon, violin and Melody Quah, piano; the Penn State University Choir in music from the Mass for Four Voices by William Byrd; and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8 in F, in a performance from the Penn's Woods Music Festival.

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