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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.

This month, hear PSU faculty pianist Christopher Guzman playing the English Suite No. 3 in G Minor by Bach. Then celebrate Black History Month with music by two African American composers: the Penn State Glee Club singing “Ain’a That Good News!” by William L. Dawson; and the student musicians of the Penn State Philharmonic, led by faculty conductor Gerardo Edelstein, in the Symphony No. 3 in C Minor by Florence Price.

This month, hear a suite of Nordic folk tunes for string quartet, played by Mark Minnich and Sally Williams Minnich, violins; John Roxburgh, viola and Jonathan Dexter, cello. We’ll also hear Mozart’s Sinfonia concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra, played by the Penns Woods Music Festival Orchestra, led by Gerardo Edelstein, with two central Pennsylvania-born brothers as soloists: Jeff Zehngut, violin and Gareth Zehngut, viola.

Milo Miles is Fresh Air's world-music and American-roots music critic. He is a former music editor of The Boston Phoenix.

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