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In Performance at Penn State
Second 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.

  • 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 Mozart’s Symphony No. 38 in D, known as the “Prague” symphony, played by the Penns Woods Music Festival Orchestra, conducted by Gerardo Edelstein; The Penn State Concert Choir, singing the Kyrie fromThe Mass for Double Choir in E-flat by Joseph Rheinberger; and the “A Romance of Orcia” by Yuko Obayashi, played by flutist Naomi Seidman and pianist Christopher Guzman.
  • In Performance at Penn State is a monthly hour-long program that showcases performances from Penn State's School of Music. This month, hear James Cameron Dennis, one of the winners of the 2022 Penn State Orchestra Concerto Competition, plaing the first movement of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3. Then enjoy music by two African American women: “I Dream a World” by Rosephanye Powell, sung by Essence of Joy; And, from the 2022 Penns Woods Music Festival, the Piano Quintet in A Minor by Florence Price.
  • In Performance at Penn State is a monthly hour-long program that showcases performances from Penn State's School of Music. This month, hear music by 20th century Russian composwer Marina Dranishnikova, played by Penn State faculty members Andreas Osete, oboe & Melody Quah, piano; “Hark, I hear the harps eternal,” a traditional hymn arranged by Alice Parker and performed by Penn State’s Oriana Singers, directed by Jane Glocke; And pianist Melody Quah as soloist in Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Penns Woods Music Festival Orchestra, conducted by Gerardo Edelstein.
  • 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 Overture on Hebrew Themes by Sergei Prokofiev from the 2022 Penns Woods Music Festival; Chopin’s Scherzo No. 3 in C-sharp Minor from a 2022 recital by Penn State Faculty Member Christopher Guzman; and the Penns 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 two piano pieces, “January” and “Feburary” from “Das Jahr” by Fanny Mendelssohn; a suite called “Rustiques” by Joseph Canteloube for oboe, clarinet & piano; and Schubert’s Symphony No. 4 in C Minor played by the Penns Woods Music Festival Orchestra led by Gerardo Edelstein.
  • In Performance at Penn State is a monthly hour-long program that showcases performances from Penn State's School of Music. This month, hear excerpts from the Orchestral Suite in B Minor by Bach, played by Sheila Hornberger, transverse flute with the Penn State Baroque ensemble directed by James Lyon; “Variations for Harp on a theme in ancient style” by Carlos Salzedo, played by Anne Sullivan in a Penns Woods Music Festival concert; and the Penn State Philharmonic, with guest conductor Teresa Cheung, playing The Enigma Variations by Sir Edward Elgar.
  • In Performance at Penn State is a monthly hour-long program that showcases performances from Penn State's School of Music. This month, we’ll hear music from “A German Requiem” by Johannes Brahms, performed by the Penn State Philharmonic, Penn State’s Concert Choir, Essence of Joy, Glee Club, Oriana Singers and University Choir, and conductor Christopher Kiver.
  • In Performance at Penn State is a monthly hour-long program showcasing performances from Penn State's School of Music. This month, hear Penn State faculty cellist Kim Cook with pianist Svetlana Rodionova performing “Vocalise” by Sergei Rachmaninoff; Penn State’s Essence of Joy singing “Listen to the Lambs” by R. Nathaniel Dett, with soprano soloist Chloe Braden; and the Symphony No. 1 in C by George Bizet conducted by Gerardo Edelstein at the 2016 Penns Woods Music Festival.
  • In Performance at Penn State is a monthly hour-long program that showcases performances from Penn State's School of Music. This month, the program is devoted to a single work: The Symphony No. 2 in E Minor by Sergei Rachmaninoff, played by the Penn State Philharmonic, with Gerardo Edelstein conducting.