196 Followers. Improvisation (7:58) Stay on top of the information you need to navigate the admissions process amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Concert Band They are mentored by members of the Pennsylvania Quintet faculty ensemble and perform recitals and school programs throughout the year. Accept changes. Using a mixture of faculty and string students, rehearsals reinforce Baroque performance techniques and stylistic interpretation. Note: Other than the time you will need to warm up and perform a playing audition, you will not have any other band activities that afternoon until 7:30 pm. This highly selective ensemble is open by audition to undergraduate and graduate students in all majors. Lisa O. Bontrager, horn Faculty: Kim Cook Under the direction of Marko Marcinko, Centre Dimensions performs and works with several internationally known artists each year. Jan Bach: Skizzen – Suite after drawings by Heinrich Kley The Penn State Blue Band performs for the first time in public as a full group at "Be a Part from the Start" held on Friday, Aug. 22. 9 in D Minor, the Verdi Requiem, Leonard Bernstein’s Mass, the Poulenc Gloria and Mozart’s Mass in C Minor, K. 427 (“Grand Mass”). The Penn State Blue Band is one of the nation's premier college marching bands. Variation 2: Allegretto Piu Tosto Moderato Every year, at least one fully-staged work will be presented. The Penn State University Blue Band performs a medley of western style songs during a 2004 TailGreat celebration at the Bryce Jordan Center. Repertoire ranges from small chamber works for two or three violists to large conducted works for two or three violists to large conducted works for a dozen or more players. 3. 6. It concertizes extensively both on and off campus and is open to all students, regardless of major, by audition. on Friday, Dec. 27, 2019. The Clarinet Choir performs from a vast repertoire of original works, jazz selections and transcriptions of classical standards. The Symphonic Wind Ensemble is the premier wind/percussion ensemble in the School of Music. How difficult is it to make the Penn State Blue Band? The ensemble is regularly coached and directed by leading early music groups and performers from Europe and America, such as the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the King’s Consort, Florilegium, and Modern Musik. When we got to the Blue Band Building, I stood in line for registration and to sign up for an audition time. CPA provides a context, through artistic connections, to the human experience. Members of the Graduate Brass Quintet are chosen by competitive auditions and have received their undergraduate degrees from respected institutions across the country. sax), Benny Golson (sax), Jon Faddis (trumpet) and Slide Hampton (trombone). They perform in master class/ concert settings. The choir has performed by audition at conferences of the American Choral Directors Association and the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association. Most people are learning high stepping for the first time, so you’re not alone. Lisa O. Bontrager, horn Course Details: Music 086.1, 11:15-12:30pm; Music 086.2; MW, 5:00-6:15pm Shafer is the co-author of Class Piano for Adult Beginners, published by Prentice-Hall. Then, Dr. Bundy announced that I would be the next Penn State Blue Band Drum Major! Performing music from the Renaissance through to the present in its regularly-scheduled campus concerts, recent performances of major choral works have included Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 in C Minor (“Resurrection”), Ein deutsches Requiem by Johannes Brahms, Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. I've done marching band throughout high school, though we marched corps style so I know I'll have to learn a new style of marching. Auditions will run Monday, August 19th thru Wednesday, August 21st and Band Camp begins Thursday, August 22nd. In addition, they have presented concerts at the Schomburg Museum of Black American Culture in New York City (1998, 1999, 2001). Vocal Dimensions Jazz Ensemble, is the premier vocal jazz ensemble at Penn State University. Sorry, this post was deleted by the person who originally posted it. Conducted by Kathryn Hylton, Oriana Singers is a treble choir composed of sixty women representing a wide variety of majors at University Park.