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In Performance at Penn State
Third Friday of the month at 11 a.m., with an encore airing the following Monday at 8 p.m.

In Performance at Penn State is a monthly, hour-long show that brings you the talents of students and faculty from Penn State's School of Music on the University Park Campus. We'll present a variety of performers and music in each program, most recorded live in-concert. The show is produced by WPSU-FM, and hosted by WPSU's Kristine Allen.

  • 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.
  • 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 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.
  • This month, hear the "Overture on Hebrew Themes" by Sergei Prokofiev from the Penn's Woods Music Festival; Chopin’s Scherzo No. 3 in C-sharp Minor from a recital by Penn State Faculty Member Christopher Guzman; and the Penn's Woods Music Festival Orchestra in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2 in D.
  • 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 Trio for Flute, Oboe and Bassoon by twentieth century composer Jurriaan Andriessen from the Penns Woods Music Festival, and the students of Penn State’s Philharmonic Orchestra, led by Gerardo Edelstein, in the Symphony No. 8 in G by Antonin Dvorak.
  • 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 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 Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, played by the Penn State Chamber Orchestra; the Oriana Singers in choral music by Brahms; And “Mladi” by Leos Janacek, from the Penns Woods Music Festival.
  • 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.
  • 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.