“Opera is the plural of opus, which translates as ‘work,’” said David Martynuik, conductor for the gala. “The idea of having multiple types of ‘works,’ arias, duets, instrumental movements—including overtures and dances—is part of what has made opera the source of such intense devotion over the past four centuries. The Gala will have a tremendous variety of music drawn from various operatic traditions.”

Martynuik added, “There is sure to be something to appeal to everyone on this concert. We hope that this concert will encourage more people to seek out this tremendous music.”

The program will open with Jacques Offenbach’s delightful La Belle Helen overture. This spirited work was originally composed in 1864 for an operetta based on Helen of Troy’s elopement with Paris, which sparked the Trojan War. This overture will be followed by the “Legend of Kleinzach” from Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffman and will feature Fracker with members of the Opera Theater Workshop.

Concluding the first half of the concert will be multiple selections from Charles Gounod’s popular opera Faust. This will be a unique opportunity for Baunoch to appear on stage with Fracker, who was his teacher while attending Michigan State University. According to Banouch, an assistant professor of music at IUP, “Professor Fracker has been a seminal influence on my career as a singer.

“Verdi had an especially close friendship with the principal clarinetist at La Scala Ernesto Cavallini for whom he wrote the solo in “La Primavera” from I Vespri Sciliani that will open the second half of the concert.” The clarinet solo will be performed by IUP senior music student Samuel Schreiber.

Members of the IUP Chorale and University Choir will join the orchestra on stage for various selections, including Puccini’s famous “Nessun Dorma” and “O Mio Bambino Caro,” Bizet’s Toreador’s Song from Carmen, and several choruses, including Verdi’s “Va Pensiero.”

The concert will end in grand style with the famous sextet from Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor and Verdi’s Brindisi.

Tickets are $9 regular admission, $8 for senior citizens and groups of 15 or more, and $6 for students and children. Tickets for the Gala are available in advance at the Hadley Union Building, online at IUP Tickets, or by calling the HUB ticket office at 724-257-1313. Tickets remaining will be sold at the door starting one hour before the performance.

Sound Choices is produced by the IUP Music Department and is part of the offerings of the Lively Arts. For more information, contact the Lively Arts at 724-357-2787 (ARTS) or e-mail lively-arts@iup.edu.

In addition to talking about current trends on Broadway and the many inside stories he has about productions and performers past, present, and future, Rudetseky will also announce the Broadway shows that will be presented by IUP for the 2013–2014 season. This announcement will include the two touring shows that will be part of the next Ovations! season and the production planned by IUP Theater-by-the-Grove and Music Theater.

Along with being a well-known radio host, Rudetsky is a top-notch journalist, novelist, Broadway actor and pianist, Playbill columnist, Grammy and Emmy nominee, and award winning comic.

Rudetsky has been nominated for an Emmy Award on three occasions for his work as a comedy writer on The Rosie O’Donnell Show. He has been a writer and producer for awards shows like the 1999 and 2000 Grammys and created the opening numbers for the 1998 and 2000 Tony Awards. He has also written the opening numbers for the last seven Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Easter Bonnet Competitions and has been responsible for many of their Gypsy of the Year shows.

In addition to his daily On Broadway radio program on Sirius/XM, he also hosts Seth’s Broadway Chatterbox, a one-hour talk show at Don’t Tell Mama, a New York City club. He wrote and performed a one-man show called Rhapsody in Seth and often tours with variations on this and his one-man show, Seth’s Big Fat Broadway.

As a comic, Rudetsky won Stand-Up NY’s Funniest Gay Male contest and the Duplex Stars of Tomorrow Grand Prize, and he had the long-running, critically acclaimed show, The Seth Rudetsky Show, at Rose’s Turn. With his comedy partner Jack Plotnick, he performed An Evening with Joyce Dewitt and Mortification Theatre at Caroline’s and the HBO Workspace in Los Angeles.

As an author, he penned the books The Q Guide to Broadway, now in its third printing, and the recently published Broadway Nights, both of which were released as audio books on audible.com featuring Andrea Martin, Jonathan Groff, and Kristin Chenoweth.

Seth Rudetsky graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music with a degree in piano performance and resides, with his husband, in New York City.

Admission to this Ideas and Issues event is free. However, seats can be reserved in advance at the Hadley Union Building ticket office on the IUP campus or online at IUP Tickets. Seats can also be reserved by calling the HUB ticket office at (724) 357-1313. Any tickets remaining will be available at the door starting at 7:15 p.m.

For more information, call the Lively Arts at (724)-357-2787 or e-mail lively-arts@iup.edu.

General admission tickets are $18 and are now available through the HUB box office.

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Dai Zhonghui has held the position of principal trumpet for the National Symphony Orchestra of China for the past eight years. With this orchestra, he has played in Germany, England, Austria, South America, Japan, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan and more than 20 cities in mainland China. He joined the faculty of the Central Conservatory of Music in 2002 and was the trumpet professor, head of brass, and the founder and director of the Central Conservatory Brass Ensemble. He was also the conductor of the Central Conservatory of Music Symphonic Winds Orchestra. Dai Zhonghui is nationally acclaimed as a performer and brass instructor.

As principal trumpet for the National Symphony Orchestra of China, Dai Zhonghui has made five compact disc recordings with Philips Recording Company. As a soloist, he has appeared with several orchestras in the U.S.A. and China. He is also frequently invited to perform as a soloist for studio recordings for movies, television, and commercial work in Beijing.

As an educator, he has made two albums and two sets of video recordings for educational purposes with three top recording companies in China. His students have won positions with major orchestras in China and Europe, and some of them are scholarship winners at music schools in the U.S.A., Europe, and Russia.

Dai Zhonghui received his Master of Fine Arts in music from the International University in San Diego and studied seven years at the University of Southern California School of Music. In 1990–1991, he was awarded a trumpet fellowship at the Tanglewood Music Center and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute. His teachers include Thomas Stevens, Charles Schlueter, Susan Slaughter, and Rob Roy McGregor.

He serves as vice president of the Chinese Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles and is a member of the International Trumpet Guild Board of Directors.

The concert will include music of Chinese band composers, as well as classic works by Morton Gould, Fisher Tull, and Percy Grainger. Two works of Jack Stamp will also be featured, including the consortium premiere of his “Divertimento for Trombone and Band” with IUP Professor Christian Dickinson as soloist.

General admission ticket prices are $9 regular, $8 discount (groups of 15 or more and senior citizens), and $6 for children and students. Tickets are available in advance at the Hadley Union Building and will also be sold starting one hour before the performance.

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Interested students, faculty, staff, and community members are invited to participate in the 5:30 p.m. session as the musicians of the Ahn Trio and dancers of Nai-Ni Chen dance company discuss how Asian and Western music have influenced each of them and their two separate art forms. They will also share their thoughts on the fusion of their artistic disciplines, and how it materialized in the mesmerizing production Temptation of the Muses, to be performed by them at 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 25, in Fisher Auditorium.

At 7:00 p.m., Nai-Ni Chen will lead a masterclass on Chinese dance for IUP dance students and local high school dance students from the private studios of Joan Van Dyke and Mary Strong. This is open to anyone to observe/audit, but due to space considerations, you must contact ArtsPath associate director for arts-in-education services, Jeff Wacker, at jwacker@iup.edu, or Holly Boda-­Sutton at hboda@iup.edu if you wish to participate.

In addition to the two IUP outreach presentations, Nai-Ni Chen will also present a program titled “The Art of Chinese Dance” to elementary students in grades 3–5 in Blairsville, and the Ahn Trio will present a lecture/demonstration to music students at Indiana Area High School.

A blossom of color, energy, and motion, the dances of Nai-Ni Chen fuse the dynamic freedom of American modern dance with the grace and splendor of Asian art. Temptation of the Muses draws on elements from the flowing lines of Chinese calligraphy to the thundering motion of the martial arts. And, in a true fusion of dance and music, the dancers are joined on stage by the Ahn Trio, one of classical music’s most innovative ensembles, all moving to music composed by Kenji Bunch, an American musician who has emerged as one of the most engaging, influential, and prolific composers of his generation.

All outreach events are presented by ArtsPath, the arts-in-education program of the Lively Arts. For more information on the events or the April 25 performance of Temptation of the Muses, call the Lively Arts at 724-357-2787 (ARTS). Tickets may be purchased in advance and in person at the Hadley Union Building on campus, by calling the HUB 724-357-1313, or online at IUP Tickets.

Temptation of the Muses features dancers sliding through piano notes, mimicking cello movements, and playing a kind of hand ballet with sparkling water. The entire evening is a mesmerizing blend of dance and music, all of which was composed or commissioned by the Ahn Trio. The evening brings together Nai-Ni Chen, one of the most accomplished modern choreographers, with the Ahn Trio, three sisters earning a distinguished reputation for embracing the music of living composers since their graduation from the Julliard School.

A blossom of color, energy, and motion, “like endlessly proliferating forces of cosmic energy,” says the New York Times, the dances of Nai-Ni Chen fuse the dynamic freedom of American modern dance with the grace and splendor of Asian art. The company’s productions take the audience beyond cultural boundaries to where tradition meets innovation and freedom arises from discipline. Chen’s dramatic work has gained increasing recognition among prestigious domestic and international presenters, including the Joyce Theater in New York, the Ordway Center in Minnesota, and the Cerritos Center in California. In addition, the company has mounted 20 national tours and seven tours abroad.

The Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company also has the unique honor of having received more than 12 awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and numerous citations of excellence and grants from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, where their company is based. Winning critical acclaim worldwide, the company has been presented at more than 200 art centers and universities in the United States and at international festivals in Mexico, Germany, Poland, Russia, Lithuania, and Korea, and in China where, in 2002, Chen received the prized Golden Lotus Award.

The Ahn Trio has been hailed as “exacting and exciting musicians” by the LA Times. The three sisters—Lucia on the piano, Angella on the violin, and Maria on the cello—have earned a distinguished reputation for embracing 21st-century classical music with their unique style and innovative collaborations. The Ahn sisters were born in Seoul, Korea.

Reflecting the two cultures in which they grew up, the trio brings a new energy and excitement to the chamber music world. Such luminary composers as Michael Nyman, Maurice Jarre, Pat Metheny, Paul Schoenfield, Mark O’ Connor, Kenji Bunch, Nikolai Kapustin, and Paul Chihara have written works for them. The trio’s latest CD, Lullaby for My Favorite Insomniac (released by Sony), is a showcase of their fearless creativity, which made number eight on the Billboard charts for 26 weeks in the classical album category. In over 10 years of touring, the trio has performed in all 50 states and in over 30 countries and has recorded six albums.

Tickets for this April 25 event are available in advance at the Hadley Union Building ticket office on the IUP campus or online at IUP Tickets. Tickets remaining can be purchased at the door starting one hour prior to the performance. Tickets are $23 regular admission, $18 for seniors and groups, and $12 for students and children. For more information, call the Lively Arts Office at (724)-357-2787 or the HUB Ticket Office at (724)-357-1313.

Ovations! is funded, in part, by donations through the Premiere Club, business sponsorships, grants, and the IUP Student Cooperative Association. This project is also supported by a grant from Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts through the Pennsylvania Rural Arts Alliance.

The TBTG production will provide a radical updating of this 2,600-year-old Greek comedy. Originally written and set in ancient Greece during the Peloponnesian War, this bawdy comedy offers a surprisingly progressive view of gender relations and anti-war sentiment. Translator Sarah Ruden provides a racy and hilarious 21st-century version of Aristophanes’ combination of jokes, music, and ridicule.

Lysistrata was first performed in Athens in 411 B.C.E. and, due to its popularity, has survived more than two millennia and seen countless adaptations. Aristophanes, the great comic playwright of ancient Athens, authored approximately 40 plays between 425 and 388 B.C.E., 11 of which survive today. His major satirical target was the ongoing war with Sparta, but Aristophanes lambasted many other aspects of everyday city life. Aristophanes’ gift for mockery is fully evident in Lysistrata, as the titular heroine leads the women of Greece in a sex strike to bring an end to the war.

Behind the hilarity, however, resides a deeper and relevant message for modern audiences. Director Jason Chimonides says, “Our approach to the play seeks to explore how contemporary college students relate to and intuitively interpret the universal themes embedded in the script: most essentially, that men are no longer going to rule our world, politically. They are not going to let call the shots. To students coming of age in a radically interconnected and increasingly democratized world, the play gains a fascinating new resonance.”

This production contains language and situations to which some audience may object. It is not recommended for younger audiences.

Tickets for Lysistrata are available on line at IUP Tickets and in advance at the Hadley Union Building, located on Pratt Drive of the IUP campus. Tickets may also be purchased with a credit card, Monday through Friday, by calling the HUB Box Office at 724-357-1313.

Seats remaining will be sold at the door starting 45 minutes before each performance. Tickets are priced at $14 for regular admission, $12 for senior citizens and groups of 15 or more, and $8 with a university I-Card.

For more information, contact the Lively Arts at 724-357-2787 (ARTS) or e-mail lively-arts@iup.edu.

Theater-by-the-Grove is produced by the Department of Theater and Dance of the College of Fine Arts. It is funded, in part, by the IUP Student Cooperative Association.

The appearance of Sonny Landreth and his trio are being funded through a gift from David and Patty Bidwell.

Landreth is a guitarist's guitarist. His music encompasses Mississippi Delta blues, Zydeco, and Southern rock. He also creates sounds that are all his own—sounds he calls the “music behind the glass.”

Landerth is considered a wizard of the slide guitar. When using a slide, most guitarists rest it on the strings over the frets to create a quavering, fluid sound. They pluck the strings above the guitar's sound hole. But, in addition to finger-picking in a Chet Atkins style, Landreth also plays chords as he says, “On the ‘wild side’ of the slide,” up on to the neck of the guitar.

It’s been said that Landreth “can play it all.” His unique blues style can be found on his two Zoo Entertainment releases, Outward Bound (1992) and South of I-10 (1995). He can be heard on recordings by John Hiatt, Leslie West and Mountain, and other rock and rollers.

On his own, Landreth has released 11 CDs and in 2005 was recognized as the Americana Music Association’s Instrumentalist of the Year. His 2008 album, From the Reach, featured such guest stars as Eric Clapton, Vince Gill, and Jimmy Buffet. The album hit number one on Billboard's blues chart.

More recently, Landreth’s release of Elemental Journey is something very different from the Louisiana slide wizard. This latest recording is his first all-instrumental effort and his most adventurous work to date.

Tickets for the May 31 event will available in advance starting on Tuesday, April 30, at the Hadley Union Building ticket office on the IUP campus or online at IUP Tickets. They can also be purchased by calling the HUB ticket office at (724) 357-1313.

Any tickets remaining can be purchased at the door one hour prior to the performance. All tickets are $18, and seating is by general admission.

For more information, call the Lively Arts Office at (724)-357-2787, e-mail lively-arts@iup.edu.

This 2009 Tony Award-winning Best Musical Revival, directed by Diane Paulus, is a celebration of life, a love letter to freedom, and a passionate cry for hope and change. The musical broke new ground when it first opened in 1967 by defining the genre of “rock musical,” changing the face of musical theater for generations to come.

With a score including such enduring musical numbers as “Let the Sun Shine In,” “Aquarius,” “Hair,” “Easy to Be Hard,” and “Good Morning Starshine,” Hair depicts the birth of a cultural movement in the 1960s that changed America forever.

The musical follows a group of hopeful, free-spirited young people who advocate a lifestyle of pacifism and free love in a society riddled with intolerance and brutality during the Vietnam War. As they explore sexual identity, challenge racism, experiment with drugs, and protest the “Establishment” in general, the “tribe” creates an irresistible message of hope that continues to resonate with audiences 40 years later.

This critically-acclaimed revival became a theatrical tour de force in its limited engagement in Central Park, later moving to Broadway, where it won the 2009 Tony Award for Best Musical Revival as well as the Drama Desk, Drama League, and Outer Critics’ Circle awards for Outstanding Revival of a Musical. Directed by Diane Paulus, who also directed the Tony Award-winning revival of The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, and choreographed by Karole Armitage, Hair features a book and lyrics by Gerome Ragni and James Rado with music by Galt MacDermot.

This inspiring new production features an exuberant finale and has a level of inclusiveness rarely seen in musical theater.

Tickets are available in advance at the Hadley Union Building on campus, by calling 724-357-1313, or online at IUP Tickets. Tickets range from $12 to $35, and seats remaining will be sold at the door starting at 7:00 p.m. prior to the performance.

For more information, call the Lively Arts at 724-357-2787 (ARTS) or e-mail lively-arts@iup.edu.

Ovations! is funded, in part, by individual donations made through the Premiere Club, business sponsors, and grants. Additional funding is provided by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. The series is presented by the Lively Arts, a program of the IUP College of Fine Arts.

This event is presented by Ideas and Issues and the Student Cooperative Association. Tickets are free but required, and are available now through the HUB Box Office, or at the door beginning one hour before curtain.

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The pianola is a 19th century invention which not only allowed the playing of “pre-recorded” music but also featured an artist-performer who brought his or her own personal interpretation to the music in question. Like many innovations in the 20th century including the stereo phonograph, tape, cassettes, and CDs and later with the multiplicity of playback devices such as MP3 players, pads, and smart phones, the pianola had a marked effect on the music and musicianship of its time. 

Berkman will play a wide variety of music for the concert from Classical to Ragtime to Folk. He will be joined by IUP piano professor Henry Wong Doe in a unique duet performance of Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A Minor (opus 16).

In celebration of the inaugural of IUP’s 26th presdient, Dr. Michael A. Driscoll has selected a number of themes that reflect his vision for IUP including tradition, opportunity, success, and excellence. The pianola reflects these themes, representing the tradition of keyboard music, the opportunity for our community to hear this unique style of repertoire, the success that the marriage of technology and music brings to musicians here and everywhere, and the excellence in music performance offered at IUP. 

Admission is free, but tickets are required. Tickets are available in advance at the Hadley Union Building Box Office. Tickets remaining will be available at the door starting at 7:15 p.m. the night of the concert.

The IUP Symphony Orchestra, led by Professor David Martynuik, will be joined by Voice faculty members Mary Logan Hastings and Joseph Baunoch.

Tenor Richard Fracker, who has performed 10 seasons with the New York Metropolitan Opera, will be a special guest.

Tickets are now available through the HUB Box Office. General admission tickets are $9 regular, $8 senior or group, and $6 with an I-Card. 

The scholarship committee, which raises funds for students to study organ at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, began the competition in order to encourage young organ students. Prizes are awarded in the amounts of $750 for first place, $500 for second place, and $250 for third place.

Each contestant has gone through a preliminary round of adjudication through a recorded submission process to reach the final round of competition. The competition is presented in a recital format, with each student having 25 minutes to perform a variety of selections. The level of playing is quite high, with previous winners continuing on to study organ as schools such as the University of Michigan, Juilliard, and Oberlin.

This year's adjudicator is James Kibbie from the University of Michigan. As part of the organ scholarship weekend, Kibbie is performing a solo recital at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, April 5, also at Zion Lutheran Church. More on Kibbie, his recital, and the preceding fund-raising dinner may be found here.

Both recitals are free and the public is invited. All audience members are also invited to a reception immediately afterwards. For more information on the competition, please e-mail Christine Clewell at orgel@iup.edu.

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Tickets are now available through the HUB Box Office, in person or by calling 724-357-1313.

General admission ticket prices for all of these performances are $9 regular, $8 senior or group, and $6 with an I-Card. 

The ensemble members will talk about their unique music and play two or three numbers as a preview for their Thursday evening performance.

Cimarrón is the most accomplished llanera group in Colombia and celebrates the sounds of Los Llanos Orientales—a vast plain of cattle country where the descendants of Spanish settlers, African slaves, and indigenous Indians live much like their ancestors did, within the lush savannahs that follow the great Orinoco River.

The seven-piece ensemble has been performing around the world for more than 20 years, was nominated for a 2005 Latin Grammy following the release of their Smithsonian Folkways album Si Soy Llanero, and more recently has been honored with an acclaimed showcase at the 2008 World Music Expo and the iTunes Rewind Traditional World Album of the Year in 2011.

Tickets for the evening performance in Gorell Recital Hall are available in advance at the Hadley Union Building or online (see details at right).

For more information on either event, call the Lively Arts Office at (724) 357-2787 or email lively-arts@iup.edu.

Under the direction of dance professor Holly Boda-Sutton and music professor Michael Kingan, musical selections range from classical transcriptions of the music of Debussy and Prokofiev to popular pieces by Toto and Santa Esmerelda.

The IUP Drumline will make a dramatic appearance during Mike Oldfield’s “Tubular Bells.” Also in store will be the combined ensembles transforming a construction site into a music and dance playground.

Joining this large-scale collaboration are choreographers Joan Van Dyke and Anna Ponak-Shivley and guest choreographer Molly Lieber.

A professional choreographer and dance performer from New York, Lieber was born and raised in Pittsburgh. She now choreographs in collaboration with Eleanor Smith. Their work was presented this year in New York by Danspace Project and the Chocolate Factory Theater. Lieber also dances for well-known choreographers Keely Garfield, Levi Gonzalez, Juliette Mapp, Melinda Ring, and Anna Sperber.

Previous performers will also be involved in the production. Students Troy Fitchette, Cory Leydic, and Logan Orange demonstrate their talents by transcribing and making special musical arrangements for two of the pieces. Likewise, an original composition by alumnus Chris Leidhecker will be performed.

Tickets are available in advance at the Hadley Union Building, by calling 724-357-1313, or online at IUP Tickets. Tickets will also be sold at the door starting at 6:00 p.m. the night of the performance.

Tickets are $14 regular admission, $12 for senior citizens, and $8 for students and children.

Dance Theater is funded, in part, by the IUP Student Cooperative Association and is produced by the Department of Theater and Dance. The Percussion Ensemble is part of the IUP Department of Music.

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The most accomplished “Llanera” group in Colombia, South America, Cimarron celebrates the sounds of Los Llanos Orientales—a vast plain of cattle country where the descendants of Spanish settlers, African slaves, and indigenous Indians live much like their ancestors did, within the lush savannahs that follow the great Orinoco River. With a sound that has been described as Turbo-flamenco-jazz, Cimarron is “the bull that knows no rope—the steer that roams free, fierce and unbranded at the breach of experiment and tradition.”

A seven-piece ensemble led by composer Carlos Rojas, Cimarron uses several authentic instruments indigenous to their region. They have been performing for more than 20 years in countries like Venezuela, Mexico, Guatemala, Chile, Sweden, France, Italy, Austria, Slovenia, Holland, Wales, England, and the U.S.

Immersed in the festive dance music called joropo, the group presents a fiercely virtuoso display of rippling melodies that produce a rapid and celebratory sound with high-pitched voices reminiscent of the folk tunes of Andalusia. The fast-paced, triple-meter music is often accompanied by footwork-intense couples dancing, and has become an icon of regional and national identity.

Nominated for a 2005 Latin Grammy following the release of its Smithsonian Folkways album Si Soy Llanero, Cimarron has also been honored with an acclaimed showcase at the 2008 World Music Expo and the iTunes Rewind Traditional World Album of the Year in 2011.

Tickets for the performance are available in advance at the Hadley Union Building or online now at IUP Tickets. Tickets remaining will be sold at the door starting at 7:15 p.m. Tickets are $20 for regular admission, $16 for senior citizens, and $12 for students and children.

For more information, call the Lively Arts Office at (724)-357-2787 or e-mail lively-arts@iup.edu.

Ovations! is funded, in part, by donations through the Premiere Club, business sponsorships, grants, and the IUP Student Cooperative Association. The Lively Arts is a program of the College of Fine Arts, presenting nearly 200 performances and exhibits annually.

In addition to his teaching duties as the organ professor at the University of Michigan, Kibbie maintains a full schedule of concert, recording, and festival engagements throughout North America and Europe, including appearances at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, Royal Festival Hall in London, Dvořak Hall in Prague, and the Lincoln Center in New York City. A frequent jury member of international organ competitions, he has himself been awarded the Grand Prix d’Interprétation from the prestigious International Organ Competition of Chartres, France, and is also the only American to have won the International Organ Competition of the Prague Spring Festival in the former Czechoslovakia.

As a recognized authority of the music of J.S. Bach, he has performed the complete cycle of Bach organ works in a series of 18 recitals and is in constant demand as a Bach recitalist and clinician. His recent recordings of the complete Bach works on historic Baroque organs in Germany have been welcomed with enthusiastic critical and audience acclaim. Thanks to generous support from Barbara Furin Sloat in honor of J. Barry Sloat, the University of Michigan is offering Kibbie’s recordings of all 270 Bach works as free Internet downloads.

Kibbie’s students perform frequently in concerts, competitions, and workshops in the U.S. and abroad. His former students hold key positions in college teaching and church music nationally. Among the honors he has received, Kibbie is particularly proud of the James Kibbie Scholarship, endowed in perpetuity by the University of Michigan to support students majoring in organ performance and church music.

Performance reviews from around the world include, “He unfolded a torrential virtuosity, revealed in a storm of light,” from Le Monde in France; “Kibbie displayed flawless, brilliant technique, unfailing memory, and outstanding musicianship,” from Hudebni Rozhledy in Czechoslovakia; “Music does communicate, and never more than when it is played with the impulse and eloquence Dr. Kibbie commands,” from the Musical Times in England; and, from American Record Guide in the U.S., “Kibbie’s performances are persuasive. His registrations are colorful and effective, he roars through the most complex passages with dazzling facility, and he articulates the rhythmic excitement of the music with a wonderful flexibility and clarity.”

This performance is in support of the Carol Teti Memorial Organ Scholarship Committee’s work in raising funds to award to deserving students studying organ at IUP. Admission is free with donations to be graciously accepted for the scholarship fund. If you would like to show support by attending the fund-raising dinner that precedes Kibbie’s performance—a Carol Guba catered event featuring entrée choices of apricot cherry stuffed pork loin with honey mustard sauce or seafood crepes with champagne beurre blanc sauce—please call 724-349-1996.

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Ticket prices are $23 regular, $18 senior or group, and $12 with an I-Card. Tickets are available through the HUB Box Office, in person, by calling 724-357-1313, or online at IUP Tickets.

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Written by Aristophanes and directed by Jason Chimonides comes this comic account of one woman’s extraordinary mission to end the Peloponnesian War and the battle of the sexes.

Performances are April 25–27 and May 1–4 at 8:00 p.m. and April 28 at 2:00 p.m.

General admission tickets prices: $14 regular, $12 senior or group discount, and $8 with an I-Card. Tickets are available in person at the HUB Box Office, by calling 724-357-1313, or at iuptickets.com.

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This highly decorated Broadway tour will be presented in Fisher Auditorium on Sunday, April 14, 2013, at 8:00 p.m.

Zoned and reserved ticket prices range from $12 to $35 and are available through the HUB Box Office, in person, by calling 724-357-1313, or online at IUP Tickets.

Beckman reached celebrity status in 2001 when he appeared on MTV’s Real World: Chicago only nine months after he started his recovery from over 10 years of alcohol and drug abuse. Combining his celebrity with his passionate need to share his story, he wrote a highly successful book titled Clean: A New Generation in Recovery Speaks Out.

He then went on to present dozens of speaking engagements on major campuses and in communities across the United States, as well as appearing on numerous national talk shows, including interviews with Ellen DeGeneres, Diane Sawyer, and others.

Openly gay since his MTV appearance, he continues to speak out about his life, his highly successful art career, and his work to remain sober. He is currently working on a sequel to his book, titled Still Clean. The book and the sequel are currently being recorded for an audio book with GPR Records.

• On Monday, April 1, Beckmanwill present a talk titled “Christopher Beckman: Still Clean,” presented by the IUP Counseling Center. This workshop will be of benefit to anyone wanting to better understand addictions and counseling those in recovery. Geared to students in counseling studies, it is open to the public and will be presented at 5:15 p.m. in room G-60 in the Suites on Maple.
• On Tuesday, April 2, he will present a talk centering on his art work titled “Life Informing Art.” Presented by the President’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Commission and IUP Pride Alliance, Beckman will take attendees on a visual journey through his photography, painting, and sculpture that illustrate his life and gives visual reference to many of the points raised in his book. This free session begins at 7:00 p.m. in Beard Auditorium, located in Stouffer Hall on campus along Maple St.
• On Wednesday, April 3, the Indiana Art Association will host a critique session at the Artists Hand Gallery, located on Philadelphia Street starting at 7:00 p.m. Members have been contacted to submit art work, and the public is invited for the open critique.
• Beckman will also do a special presentation for the Armstong-Indiana-Clarion Drug and Alcohol Commission, as well as individual critiques of IUP student artwork.

For full descriptions of each the events plan, download this pdf document. For more information, contact the Lively Arts at 724-357-2787 (ARTS) or e-mail lively-arts@iup.edu.

The visit is funded by the Lively Arts at IUP; Armstrong-Indiana-Clarion Drug and Alcohol Commission and the Armstrong-Indiana Drug Free Communities Coalition; the President’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Commission; College of Fine Arts; Pride Alliance; and Center for Health and Well Being.

Tickets for An Evening of Dance and Percussion are now available through the HUB Box Office.

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In the 11 years of its existence, the Daedalus Quartet has received plaudits from critics and listeners alike for the security, technical finish, interpretive unity, and sheer gusto of its performances. The New York Times has praised the Daedalus Quartet’s interpretations of various composers as “insightful and vibrant” possessing an “impressive intensity” and “riveting focus.” The Washington Post in turn has acclaimed their performance of Mendelssohn for its “rockets of blistering virtuosity,” while the Houston Chronicle has described the “silvery beauty” of their Schubert and the “magic that hushed the audience” when they played Ravel.

The quartet has also won great praise for its adventurous exploration of contemporary music through commissions and world premieres. They have has also collaborated with some of the world’s finest instrumentalists, including pianists Marc-André Hamelin, Simone Dinnerstein, Awadagin Pratt, Joyce Yang, and Benjamin Hochman; clarinetists Paquito D’Rivera, David Shifrin, and Alexander Fiterstein; and violists Roger Tapping and Donald Weilerstein.

To date, the ensemble has forged associations with some of America’s leading classical music and educational institutions, including Carnegie Hall through its European Concert Hall Organization Rising Stars program; New York’s Lincoln Center; and as Columbia University’s quartet-in-residence since 2005 and at the University of Pennsylvania since 2006.

In addition to numerous awards as a quartet and as individuals, members of the Daedalus Quartet hold degrees from the Juilliard School, Curtis Institute of Music, the Cleveland Institute, and Harvard University.

For their Indiana performance, they will be performing several pieces and will combine with members of IUP’s Litton Quartet, the resident string quartet at IUP, for a sextet by Bach. Members of the Litton Quartet that will join include Stanley Cheaptis, violoin, and Linda Jennings, cello.

Tickets for this March 13 event are available in advance at the Hadley Union Building ticket office on the IUP campus or online at IUP Tickets. Tickets remaining can be purchased at the door 45 minutes prior to the performance. Tickets are $20 regular admission, $16 for seniors and groups, and $12 for students and children.

For more information, call the Lively Arts Office at (724)-357-2787 or the HUB Ticket Office at (724)-357-1313.

Ovations! is funded, in part, by donations through the Premiere Club, business sponsorships, grants, and the IUP Student Cooperative Association. It is produced through the College of Fine Arts.

Tickets are now available through the HUB Box Office for the April 4, 2013, performance.

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In the 11 years of its existence, the Daedalus Quartet has received plaudits from critics and listeners alike for the security, technical finish, interpretive unity, and sheer gusto of its performances. The New York Times has praised the Daedalus Quartet’s interpretations of various composers as “insightful and vibrant” possessing an “impressive intensity” and “riveting focus.” The Washington Post in turn has acclaimed their performance of Mendelssohn for its “rockets of blistering virtuosity,” while the Houston Chronicle has described the “silvery beauty” of their Schubert and the “magic that hushed the audience” when they played Ravel.

The quartet has also won great praise for its adventurous exploration of contemporary music through commissions and world premieres. They have also collaborated with some of the world’s finest instrumentalists, including pianists Marc-André Hamelin, Simone Dinnerstein, Awadagin Pratt, Joyce Yang, and Benjamin Hochman; clarinetists Paquito D’Rivera, David Shifrin, and Alexander Fiterstein; and violists Roger Tapping and Donald Weilerstein.

The ensemble has forged associations with some of America’s leading classical music and educational institutions, including Carnegie Hall through its European Concert Hall Organization Rising Stars program; New York’s Lincoln Center; and as the resident quartet at Columbia University since 2005 and quartet-in-residence at the University of Pennsylvania since 2006.

In addition to numerous awards as a quartet and as individuals, members of the Daedalus Quartet hold degrees from the Juilliard School, Curtis Institute of Music, the Cleveland Institute, and Harvard University.

For their Indiana performance, they will be performing several pieces and will combine with members of the Litton Quartet, the resident string quartet at IUP, for a sextet by Bach. Members of the Litton Quartet that will join include Stanley Cheaptis, violoin, and Linda Jennings, cello.

Tickets for this March 13 event are available in advance at the Hadley Union Building ticket office on the IUP campus or online at IUP Tickets. They can also be purchased by calling the HUB ticket office at (724) 357-1313. Tickets remaining can be purchased at the door 45 minutes prior to the performance. Tickets are $20 regular admission, $16 for seniors and groups, and $12 for students and children.

For more information, call the Lively Arts Office at (724)-357-2787, e-mail lively-arts@iup.edu, or visit the Lively Arts website.

Ovations! is funded, in part, by donations through the Premiere Club, business sponsorships, grants, and the IUP Student Cooperative Association. The Lively Arts is a program of the College of Fine Arts, presenting nearly 200 performances and exhibits annually.

The month kicked off with jazz violinist John Blake Jr. visiting to rehearse for his upcoming performance, and also to present and interact with IUP and public school students. On February 4 and 5, he and the piano player for the John Blake Jr. Quartet, Dave Posmontier, visited United Jr./Sr. High School, Indiana Area Middle School, Blairsville Elementary School, and Saltsburg Elementary School (pictured) in presenting programs on African-American composers and their music. The visits supported Black History Month and were very well received by the schools. Among all four, nearly 1,000 students listened and asked questions. Also assisting at two of the schools was IUP bass student Nick Adams.

A jazz jam session was a centerpiece of this visit by Blake as he and pianist Posmontier were joined by a rhythm section of IUP students in presenting an evening open jam session for anyone interested in jazz. The session lasted two hours, during which all participants—students and faculty alike—had the opportunity to solo, regardless of their instrument. Blake also spent time in between numbers sharing with the participants his vast experience in the world of jazz.

As part of his return visit, on February 21 Blake and pianist Luke O’Reilly spent an hour in Stapleton Library playing for a noontime crowd in an informal lecture/demonstration preview of his evening concert. The lunchtime crowd was treated to several outstanding jazz duets by two players who spanned generations of jazz, plus learned a great deal about jazz and its roots in the African-American community.

In between the two John Blake, Jr. visits, the renowned and critically acclaimed touring company from America's oldest continuously operating theater, Walnut Street Theatre (WST), presented two acting technique masterclasses and two Q&A sessions to IUP and Indiana Area high school students. At IUP, cast members Bill Van Horn and John Zak worked with theater students exploring character development in a Shakespeare play, and the entire cast attended a Talk Back session with theater students in professor Jason Chimonides special topics course on playwright/director relationships, where they shared their experience in a theater career and answered student questions (right).

Van Horn and Zak also worked with Indiana High School students on their Shakespearian monologues in preparation for those students attending a Shakespeare competition later this spring (left). At Indiana Area Middle School, the entire cast talked with seventh graders who were part of a 20-day ArtsPath residency with literary artist P.J. Piccirillo and English teacher Jeanne Mitsko. As part of their residency experience, they read Around the World in 80 Days, a production WST performed at IUP the night before. Nearly 50 students saw the live performance and were able to ask questions of the cast members the next day at the Q&A session.

If you are a teacher or principal who would like your students and school to be considered for future outreach sessions, please contact Jeff Wacker, ArtsPath associate director for arts-in-education services, at 724-357-2787 (ARTS) or at jwacker@iup.edu.

ArtsPath is the arts-in-education program of the Lively Arts, serving the five-county region of Armstrong, Butler, Clarion, Indiana, and Jefferson counties.

Music and lyrics of this award-winning family show are by Clark Gesner with additional dialogue by Michael Mayer and additional music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa. It is directed by theater faculty member Jeannie-Marie Brown with musical direction by music professor Sarah Mantel.

A revised version of the 1967 classic, this two-act musical follows an average challenging day in the life of the Peanuts Gang as they experience the simple happiness of life, all through the lens of childhood. Audience members will be taken on this trip by Charlie, Sally, Linus, Lucy, Schroeder, and Snoopy as they navigate their way through their philosophies, adventures, and friendships to discover how to find the simplicity of life.

According to director Brown, “The beauty of this production is how the cast has brought new depth and humanity to these classic characters. By opening themselves up to the great emotional span of the musical, the actors have given the show new breath and have created a piece that recaptures the little joys of childhood while allowing us to embrace all of the things that make adulthood so enjoyable.”

Brown continues to explain, “What it really shows us is the beauty of when we open up our hearts to happiness, simplicity, and love. This cast has created a sense of nostalgia that is truly wonderful to behold.”

Tickets for You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown are available in advance at the Hadley Union Building, located on Pratt Drive of the IUP campus. Tickets are also available online at IUP Tickets. Seats remaining will be sold at the door starting 45 minutes before each performance.

Tickets are priced at $15 for regular admission, $13 for senior citizens and groups of 15 or more, and $9 for students and children. Tickets may also be purchased with a credit card, Monday through Friday, by calling the HUB Box Office at 724-357-1313.

For more information, contact the Lively Arts at 724-357-2547 or e-mail lively-arts@iup.edu.

Theater-by-the-Grove is produced by the Department of Theater and Dance, and Music Theater is produced by the Department of Music. Both departments are part of the College of Fine Arts. The production is funded, in part, by the IUP Student Cooperative Association.

Pictured are Christopher Furrer as Charlie Brown, Caleb Feigles as Snoopy, and Olivia Anna as Sally Brown.

The performance will feature guest conductor and composer Samuel Hazo as well as two world premieres by the IUP Wind Ensemble. Both world premieres are by IUP Music Department alumnus Anthony O’Toole.

The first premiere is entitled “Fanfare to ‘The Hammer’,” written as a gift to Jack Stamp celebrating the legacy of baseball great Hank Aaron. The second premiere is a transcription of a well-known orchestral work, “Toward the Splendid City,” by New York composer Richard Danielpour.

This concert will also feature guest conductor Stephanie Caulder and oboe soloist and IUP Music Department alumnus Hannah Senft performing Jean Francaix’s “Flower Clock.”

Tickets are available in advance at the Hadley Union Building and will be available at the door starting at 2:00 p.m. the afternoon of the concert. Tickets are $9 regular admission, $8 discount, and $6 for students and children.

Here are just a few highlights surrounding her visit and her astonishing accomplishments and accolades.

Local Connections/ Activities

• Renée Fleming was born in Indiana, Pennsylvania.
• Fleming’s parents, Patricia Seymour Alexander and Edwin Fleming, graduated from IUP in 1959, both receiving B.S.Ed. degrees in Music Education. Her mother now resides in the Rochester, N.Y., area, and her father resides in north-central South Carolina.
• Fleming will perform on the same stage, Fisher Auditorium, as her parents did as music students and members of the popular traditional IUP variety show, Swing Out.
• Through donations and Fleming’s gracious consent, this concert and its funders will mark the establishment of the Renée Fleming Scholarship in Vocal Performance, with the hope that it will become fully endowed and continue to grow for decades to come.
• This recital, subtitled “Back Home Again in Indiana!” will include attendance by over 30 of Fleming’s family. Those planning to attend are her father and stepmother, husband, one of her two daughters, brother and sister, a maternal uncle, and a variety of cousins and spouses.
• Other geographic connections include her accompanist, Richard Bado, and her husband, both being Pittsburgh natives.
• While in Indiana, Fleming will attend a special invitation-only question and answer session with a group of IUP music students.
• This performance is one of only three solo recitals Fleming will give this season.
• Several area individuals and businesses have given generously to this event. Along with the Lively Arts’ Premiere Club members and seasonal sponsors, their generosity is making the appearance of Renée Fleming and the establishment of the Renée Fleming Scholarship in Vocal Performance possible. These donors will be acknowledged in the printed program for the performance.

Some Biographical Highlights

• 2003, Honorary Membership in the Royal Academy of Music
• 2004, The Inner Voice was published by Viking Penguin
• 2005, the Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur from the French government
• 2006, Nobel Peace Prize ceremony performance
• 2008, Bejing Olympics
• 2008, First woman to headline opening night at the Metropolitan Opera
• 2008, Sweden’s Polar Prize
• 2009, Obama inaugural celebration concert at Lincoln Memorial
• 2010, Named first Creative Consultant at Lyric Opera of Chicago
• 2011, Fulbright Lifetime Achievement Medal
• 2012, Queen Elizabeth Jubilee at Buckingham Palace
• 2012, Singer of the Year by the German Echo Awards
• 2012, Victoire d’Honneur, the highest award conveyed by the French Victoires de la Musique
• Movie soundtrack of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
• “Still Dream” for the soundtrack of the Dreamworks Animation feature Rise of the Guardians
• Operatic performances on all the major music stages across the globe
• Four-time Grammy winner, most recently one on February 10, 2013; 14-time Grammy nominee
• Dozens of television, film, and radio projects
• Honorary doctorates from Carnegie Mellon University, the Eastman School of Music, and the Juilliard School
• Appeared on The Martha Stewart Show, Spectacle: Elvis Costello with…, and The View and on Prairie Home Companion as “Renata Flambé,” among numerous other media outlets.

The free noontime event will take place in Stapleton Library in across from Java City. People are welcome to bring their own lunch or purchase it at Java City.

Blake will spend the lunch hour talking about African American music and composers. He will also play a few selections as a preview to his evening performance in Gorell Recital Hall, and will answer questions from the audience.

Both the noon event and evening performance are offered in celebration of Black History Month. Blake was also in town earlier in February visiting four area public schools, conducting a public jam session, and running open rehearsals in preparation for the Gorell concert Thursday evening.

Blake will be joined for the presentation by the pianist for the John Blake Jr. Quartet, including Colombian native and one of Philadelphia's most in-demand jazz pianists, 28-year old Luke O’Reilly. Together, the two span generations of jazz and African American music, coming together in a refreshing way that demonstrates the timelessness of jazz music. The concert also features a specially selected string ensemble comprised of IUP and Indiana Area High School Students.

For the past four decades, John Blake Jr. has been a leader in the world of jazz violin and string improvisation. He has released several recordings, including Motherless Child in 2010, a distinctively original and compelling performance of several traditional African American spirituals. He is also a strong proponent of education and is a member of the faculties at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and the Manhattan School of Music in New York City and has guest lectured at the Berklee College of Music in Boston.

For more information about the noon concert, contact the associate director for arts-in-education services for the Lively Arts, Jeff Wacker, at 724-357-2787 (ARTS) or at jwacker@iup.edu.

One of the world’s leading jazz musicians for over four decades, Blake established himself with global audience during his three years of recording and touring as a member of Grover Washington Jr.’s popular crossover jazz band. Next came a five-year stint in John Coltrane alumnus and seminal jazz stylist McCoy Tyner’s ensemble, where Blake mastered some of the most challenging and powerful music in jazz history, firmly identifying himself as one of the strongest string improvisers of all time.

By the turn of the millennia, Blake had begun to give lectures and workshops on college campuses as well as coauthoring, with Suzuki educator Jody Harmon J.I.M.E., the definitive beginning string jazz method book and CD in use around the world. Soon, Blake was made a member of the faculties at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and at the Manhattan School of Music in New York City, as well as being invited to be a guest lecturer at the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston.

A four-time winner of the Down Beat Critics’ Poll Violinist Deserving Wider Recognition category, Blake was also the top jazz violinist in several Down Beat Readers’ Polls. Blake’s first recording with his current quartet, titled The Traveler, was released in 2007. With the release of Motherless Child in 2010, Blake joins a list of jazz musicians and arrangers who have mined the rich repository of the African American Spiritual songbook and created new versions of timeless and inspirational work—some solely instrumental and others featuring vocals—that pay righteous and reverent respect to the music’s illustrious heritage in a manner that is distinctively original and compelling.

In addition to his quartet, Blake and IUP string professor Stanley Chepaitis will premiere a jazz arrangement by Chepaitis. A select number of area high school string students will join several IUP string students to perform the piece with Blake and Chepaitis.

Tickets for this February 21 event are available in advance at the Hadley Union Building ticket office on the IUP campus or online at IUPTickets. Tickets remaining can be purchased at the door 45 minutes prior to the performance. Tickets are $20 regular admission, $16 for seniors and groups, and $12 for students and children.

For more information, call the Lively Arts Office at (724)-357-2787 or the HUB Ticket Office at (724)-357-1313.

Ovations! is funded, in part, by donations through the Premiere Club, business sponsorships, grants, and the IUP Student Cooperative Association. This project is also supported by a grant from Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts through the Pennsylvania Rural Arts Alliance.

Of special note, the Daedalus Quartet will be joined for one piece during this performance by the Litton Quartet, IUP’s resident string quartet. Ticket prices are $20 regular, $16 senior or group, and $12 with an I-Card.

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Her 15th nomination, she received the award for Best Classical Vocal Performance for her album Poémes. The recording, on the Decca lable, is a collection of masterpieces by a variety of French composers.

Other vocalists nominated included Natalie Dessay, Joyce DiDonato, Ute Lemper, and Anne Sofie Von Otter.

Fleming’s most recent Grammy was awarded in 2010, also for Best Classical Vocal Performance, for Verismo (Decca/September 2009), a CD featuring a collection of rarely heard Italian arias. Also in 2010, Decca and Mercury records released the CD Dark Hope, which features Fleming covering songs by indie-rock and pop artists.

Recent DVD releases include Handel's Rodelinda, Massenet’s Thaïs and Rossini’s Armida, and Verdi’s Traviata, filmed at London’s Royal Opera House. Fleming's 2010 DVD Renée Fleming & Dmitri Hvorostovsky: A Musical Odyssey in St. Petersburg follows her and baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky as they perform in some of St. Petersburg's most historic locations. In recent years, she has recorded everything from Strauss’s complete Daphne to the jazz album Haunted Heart to the movie soundtrack of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.

She recorded Alexandre Desplat's theme song, “Still Dream,” for the soundtrack of the Dreamworks animation feature Rise of the Guardians, a major Thanksgiving 2012 release. Her recording honors range from the 2009 Echo Award for Strauss’s Four Last Songs to the Prix Maria Callas Orphée d’Or by the Académie du Disque Lyric for TDK’s DVD production of Capriccio.

Fleming, born in Indiana, Pennsylvania, returns for this rare recital performance, subtitled “Back Home Again in Indiana.” She will be joined by Richard Bado, pianist, also a native of Western Pennsylvania. Over 30 members of Fleming’s family, including her father—a 1959 IUP music graduate—will be in the audience for the recital.

Tickets for the March 2 Ovations! series performance are available now online at IUPTickets.com or by calling the Lively Arts at 724-357-1313. Tickets range in price between $12 and $35. Additional information is available by calling IUP Lively Arts at 724-357-2787 (ARTS) or by emailing lively-arts@iup.edu.

All of the sessions will feature veteran actor Bill Van Horn. Van Horn is an actor/director/playwright at Walnut Street Theatre, associate artistic director/actor at the Theater at Monmouth in Monmouth, Maine, a voice-over artist and writer at Peter Rosen Productions in New York City, and a librettist with Dicapo Opera Theatre, also in New York City.

For IUP, there are two sessions that will take place. The first is an evening acting technique masterclass for Theater majors, while the second is a question and answer session that takes place in theater professor Jason Chimonides’ special topics course on the playwright/director relationship. This session is for individuals interested and playwriting. It will be geared to theater and English literature students.

There are also two sessions that will take place in our local schools. The first is an acting technique masterclass at Indiana Area Senior High for drama students. The second is at Indiana Area Middle School as the final part of a 20-day ArtsPath residency with literary artist PJ Piccirillo. A portion of the residency explored Around the World in 80 Days, and after viewing the performance, students will have the opportunity to ask questions of Van Horn.

Additional questions may be directed to ArtsPath associate director for arts-in-education services, Jeff Wacker, at 724-357-2787 (ARTS), or at jwacker@iup.edu.

The Litton String Quartet, IUP’s quartet-in-residence, will appear on Monday, February 25, 2013, at 8:00 p.m. in Gorell Recital Hall. The group will feature a premier of a piano quintet by IUP alumni composer Michael Barnett.

The IUP Symphony Band and Wind Ensemble will perform on Sunday, March 3, at 3:00 p.m. in Fisher Auditorium. On Sunday, March 10, at 3:00 p.m., the IUP Brass Ensemble and Concert Band will also perform in Fisher Auditorium.

Led by Ryan Beeken, the IUP Choral Program will present “Music of the Americas” on Sunday, March 10, at 8:00 p.m. in the Calvary Presbyterian Church sanctuary. In this performance, the IUP choirs and select music faculty will showcase a tableau of North and South American music.

General admission ticket prices for all of these performances are $9 regular, $8 senior or group, and $6 with an I-Card.

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This show is presented by Theater-by-the-Grove and the Music and Dance Theater departments. Directed by Jeannie Marie Brown, with musical direction by Sarah Mantel.

Performances are March 6–9 at 8:00 p.m. and March 10 at 2:00 p.m.

General admission tickets prices: $15 regular, $13 senior or group discount, and $9 with an I-Card.

Tickets are available in person at the HUB Box Office, by calling 724-357-1313, or at IUP Tickets.

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Pack your bags and travel to London, 1872, where the wealthy Phileas Fogg will lead you on a whirlwind journey filled with exotic locales, daring adventures, and narrow escapes. It is an adventure for all generations. To settle a bet, the eccentric Fogg and his trusted valet are on a race against time while they avoid Detective Fix, a Scotland Yard gumshoe who suspects the strange travelers of bank robbery.

The Walnut Street Theatre Company is a critically acclaimed touring company from America’s oldest continuously operating theater. Their home base, often referred to simply as “The Walnut,” has been in operation for more than 200 years and currently sees over 1,200 drama students enroll annually in the Theatre School.

The Walnut has been home to many of America’s most popular plays before they were discovered by Broadway, including A Streetcar Named Desire with Marlon Brando, Gigi with Audrey Hepburn, and A Raisin in the Sun with Sidney Poitier.

This version of Around the World in 80 Days is Mark Brown’s thrilling adaptation of Jules Verne’s 1873 masterpiece. Using a variety of innovative techniques, five actors portray 39 characters in this fast-moving tour de force.

Tickets are available in advance at the Hadley Union Building ticket office on the IUP campus or online at IUP Tickets. Tickets remaining can be purchased at the door starting one hour prior to the performance. Tickets are $23 regular admission, $18 for seniors and groups, and $12 for students and children.

For more information call the Lively Arts Office at (724)-357-2787 or the HUB Ticket Office at (724)-357-1313, or e-mail lively-arts@iup.edu.

The Lively Arts and the Ovations! series are funded, in part, by the IUP Student Cooperative Association, a variety of business sponsors, and individual donations made through the Premiere Club. This project is additional funded by a grant from Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour.

An open rehearsal from 3:30–5:00 p.m. on Sunday, February 3, 2013, in Gorell Recital Hall (second floor of Sutton Hall) kicks off this first visit as Blake and Chepaitis rehearse a string orchestra made up of top IUP students and high school honors students as they prepare Chepaitis’ arrangement of the Vivaldi Violin Concerto. The rehearsal is open to anyone who would like to see how a brand-new work such as this is rehearsed and put together by two musicians with decades of experience between them. The arrangement will be premiered on February 21 when Blake returns to Indiana with his quartet for an Ovations! series performance.

A Jazz Jam session at 7:00 p.m. on Monday evening, February 4, in Room 121 of Cogswell Hall is the centerpiece of Blake’s visit and features three of the top jazz students at IUP as they provide the rhythm section backing up Blake and Chepaitis for the jam session. Anyone throughout the community who enjoys jazz is invited to “bring their ax” and join in for an evening of great jazz standards, predominantly by African-American composers.

As a frequent guest lecturer and music clinician, Blake believes strongly in educating the next generation about African-American music and composers and will be visiting four area schools as part of this initial visit, including United Jr./Sr. High School, Blairsville Elementary, Indiana Middle School, and Saltsburg Elementary.

If you are interested in attending and participating in any of these events, or if you are a teacher or principal who would like your students and school to be considered for future outreach sessions, please contact ArtsPath associate director Jeff Wacker at 724-357-2787 (ARTS) or at jwacker@iup.edu.

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A celebrated musical ambassador worldwide, Fleming captivates audiences with her sumptuous voice, consummate artistry, and compelling stage presence.

Reserved and zoned seating prices range from $12 to $35 and are available in person at the HUB Box Office, by calling 724-357-1313, or online at IUP Tickets.

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Arranged by IUP trumpet professor Kevin Eisensmith, the afternoon session featured trombonist James Yardley and trumpet player Paul Stodolka, who spent an hour talking with music students on a variety of topics related to being a musician in a touring Broadway show, as well as general questions on music itself.

The second session, facilitated by ArtsPath associate director for arts-in-education services Jeff Wacker, was a post-show discussion involving eight cast members. It was attended by a variety of theater and other interested students from IUP, as well as by theater students from Indiana High Area School with their teacher, Gretchen Barbor.

These 40 students were treated to a lively hour-long discussion with cast members Whitney Winfield (Fiona), Christian Marriner (Lord Farquaad), Jeremy Gaston (Donkey), Jeffrey Zicker (one of three pigs, Papa Ogre), Michael McCrary (one of three pigs), Tony Johnson (Pinocchio), and Courtney Daniels (voice of Dragon, Mama Bear, Mama Ogre). A surprise was also made by Perry Sook, who played the title role of Shrek.

Each cast member had the opportunity to talk a little about their own backgrounds and how they became a cast member of Shrek the Musical, as well as answer a variety of questions from the students, ranging from wanting to know about life on the road to where each went to school. The overall message from the cast, though, was that any of the students attending could succeed in whatever career path they chose as long as they were wiling to work, sacrifice, and believe in themselves.

ArtsPath is the arts-in-education program of the Lively Arts. It facilitates educational outreach for the Ovations! series events, as well as presenting artist residencies in schools and communities throughout Armstrong, Butler, Clarion, Indiana, and Jefferson counties. Active in the region for over 12 years, it is one of the 13 arts-in-education partners in the state that partner with the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts in facilitating a variety of educational services related to the arts. For more information on ArtsPath, e-mail artspath-info@iup.edu, or call Jeff Wacker at 724-357-2787 (ARTS).

One of the finest jazz violinists today, Blake and his quartet will perform a variety of jazz music. Also on the program will be a world premiere by Stanley Chepaitis of the IUP Music Department. Based on the work of Vivaldi, the new work will feature advanced IUP music students and a select number of area high school students.

Reserved seating ticket prices are $23 regular, $18 senior or group, and $12 for students and children. Tickets are available through the Hadley Union Building Box Office in person, by calling 724-357-1313, or online at IUP Tickets. Tickets remaining will be sold at the door starting 45 minutes before the performance.

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The Ovations! first performance of the new semester, Around the World in 80 Days, will take place on Tuesday, February 12, 2013, in Fisher Auditorium. Tickets are now on sale.

Before there were pirates in the Caribbean or raiders of an ark, there was Jules Verne’s mother of all adventure stories. This journey will be performed by the Walnut Street Theater. Reserved seating ticket prices are $23 regular, $18 senior or group, and $12 with an I-Card. Tickets are available through the HUB Box Office, in person, by calling 724-357-1313, or online at IUP Tickets.

While typical is to have 1-3 cast members, this session will feature seven members, so we anticipate a widely varied, interesting, and informative discussion.

The cast members participating are Whitney Winfield, Fiona; Christian Mariner, Lord Farquaad; Jeremy Gaston, Donkey; Jeffrey Zicker, 1 of 3 Pigs and Papa Ogre; Michael McCrary, 1 of 3 Pigs; Tony Johnson, Pinocchio; and Courtney Daniels, Voice of Dragon, Mama Bear, and Mama Ogre.

Interested students are asked to contact the Lively Arts at lively-arts@iup.edu or 724-357-2787 (ARTS). Those wishing to attend will need to present their performance ticket stub to gain entry into the session.

This outreach activity is in conjunction with the Ovations! series event and is part of the Lively Arts ArtsPath program, providing arts-in-education services in the area for over 20 years.

Internationally renowned conductor Craig Kirchhoff will serve as guest conductor when the IUP Wind Ensemble, Symphony Band, and Concert Band perform in concert at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, December 8, 2012. The concert will be performed in Fisher Auditorium of IUP Performing Arts Center.

Kirchhoff is currently a professor of conducting and director of University Bands at the University of Minnesota where he conducts the University Wind Ensemble and guest conducts in the University Opera Program. He also coordinates the graduate program in wind ensemble and band conducting and guides all aspects of the University of Minnesota wind band program.

Born and educated in Wisconsin, Kirchhoff holds a wide knowledge of both traditional and contemporary literature. He has won critical acclaim from composers Warren Benson, Henry Brant, Elliott Carter, Michael Colgrass, John Corigliano, Karel Husa, Libby Larsen, George Perle, Vincent Persichetti, Stephen Paulus, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Gunther Schuller, Joseph Schwantner, Steven Stucky, Elliott Schwartz, Chen Yi, and others.

Kirchhoff is past president of the College Band Directors National Association and is a member of the American Bandmasters Association, the National Band Association, the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, and the Music Educators National Conference. He also served as the founding editor and principal advisor of the College Band Directors National Association Journal.

He has appeared as guest conductor, clinician, and lecturer throughout the United States, Australia, Canada, Japan, Taiwan, Europe, and Scandinavia. Mr. Kirchhoff has guest conducted the Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra and has recorded with them on the Kosei Publishing label. In addition, composer Daniel French will be in attendance for the world premiere of his "As Scattered by Waves", performed by the IUP Wind Ensemble.

The concert will begin with the IUP Trumpet Ensemble giving the U.S. premiere of Jack Stamp's "WASBE Fanfare 2011," written for the opening of the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles national conference in Taiwan. 

Tickets are available in advance at the Hadley Union Buidling and will be available at the door starting at 6:30 the evening of the concert. Tickets are $9 regular admission, $8 discount, and $6 for students and children.

In a faraway kingdom turned upside down, things get ugly when an unseemly ogre—rather than your standard handsome prince--shows up to rescue a feisty princess. Throw in a donkey who won’t shut up, a villain with a “short” temper, a cookie with an attitude, and over a dozen other fairy tale misfits and you have the kind of mess that calls for a real hero. And his name is Shrek.

Shrek the Musical is part romance, part twisted fairy tale, and all irreverent family-friendly fun. A musical truly for all ages.

The show features Jeanine Tesori’s terrific score of 19 songs, hilarious lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire (winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Drama), great dancing choreographed by Josh Prince, and breathtaking scenery and costumes designed by the Drama Desk Award-winning Tim Hatley.

After a tryout run in Seattle, Shrek the Musical opened on Broadway in December 2008 and ran for over a year before closing in January 2010. The Broadway production won a Tony Award for best costume design and Drama Desk Awards for best outstanding actor in a musical (Brian d’Arcy James as Shrek), outstanding set design, and outstanding costume design.

This production was also nominated for a 2009 Grammy in best musical show album. National tours soon followed starting in 2010 with international productions in Israel, Poland, Spain, France, Italy, The Netherlands, Brazil, Philippines, Australia, Malaysia, and China.

Tickets are available in advance online at IUPTickets.com and range in price from only $12 to $35, significantly lower than ticket prices in Pittsburgh or other cities for he same production. Tickets can also be purchased during the day at the Hadley Union Building Box Office on campus or by calling them at 724-357-1313. Any seats remaining will be available at the door starting one hour before curtain, but advance purchase is highly recommended.

If you are looking for something to do with the entire family, just follow the waving Jolly Roger as IUP Music Theater presents its light-hearted production of The Pirates of Penzance in Fisher Auditorium. This Gilbert and Sullivan musical classic will be performed Friday and Saturday, November 30 and December 1, 2012, at 8:00 p.m. and on Sunday, December 2, at 2:00 p.m.

Family fun continues with the Dreamworks production of Shrek: the Musical, direct from Broadway. This national touring event will be in town for one performance only on Monday, December 10. There is even an early family-friendly curtain time of 7:00 p.m. for this Fisher Auditorium performance. We highly recommend getting your tickets in advance.

The Lively Arts is also offering a holiday gift promotion that runs through December 12. During this period, tickets for all spring series events are on sale through the HUB box office (724-357-1313) or through IUP Tickets. This is your opportunity to guarantee that a friend, a family member, a colleague, or even yourself will enjoy several of our upcoming sensations, such as opera superstar Renée Fleming, the Broadway tour of Hair: the American Tribal Love-Rock Musical, the Music Theater and Theater-by-the-Grove production of You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown, or any of several other series events in the Spring semester.

For another great stocking stuffer, check out Christmas Postcards From the HoodleBug Brass. Just released by the IUP resident brass quintet, this recording marks the ensemble’s first commercial CD. Featuring 15 tracks of music for the Christmas season, this collection will be sampled when the quintet performs a free concert on December 4, at 8:00 p.m. in the DiCicco Rehearsal Studio in Cogswell Hall. There will be a CD signing party following the performance. Copies of the recording are also available locally from the IUP Bookstore and the Artists Hand Gallery and through iTunes, Amazon, and CDBaby.

If you are hunting for a present that is a unique expression of local visual art, you will be interested in the IUP Ceramic Sale running November 30 and December 1 from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. The sale is a semi-annual event held in the Robertshaw Building at 650 South 13th St. The sale will include works by students, instructors, and local potters. Proceeds from the sale help to benefit IUP ceramics programs and activities.

Also available in the visual arts area is a colorful book titled Paintings of Indiana County, featuring a collection of paintings by IUP alumnus Ron Donoughe. The book is offered by the University Musuem and contains 80 pages on high-quality paper.

For more information regarding the Lively Arts, please call us at 724-357-2787 or e-mail us at lively-arts@iup.edu.

The Pirates of Penzance was composed in 1879 and had its official premiere at the Fifth Avenue Theatre in New York City. The production was very successful and ran for three months to critical acclaim. Over the years, there have been various modernized versions of Pirates. Its best-known revival came in 1981 with the Joseph Papp version presented on Broadway by the New York Shakespeare Festival. That production received a Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical.

The story of The Pirates of Penzance centers around Frederic, who, having completed his 21st year, is released from his apprenticeship to a band of tender-hearted pirates. They are led by the famous, infamous, and egocentric Pirate King.

Soon after the dutiful Federic meets Mabel, the daughter of Major-General Stanley, the two young innocents fall instantly in love. Meanwhile, the pirates plan to capture the Major-General’s many daughters and marry them on the spot. In typical comic opera fashion, numerous complications ensue, all ending happily after swashbuckling finale with the Penzance Police.

The score contains some of Sullivan’s most popular songs, including the famous “I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General” and “Poor Wandering One.” The IUP production is directed by Sarah Mantel with choreography by Joan Van Dyke. The production and orchestra are conducted by Keith Young.

Tickets are available online at IUP Tickets. Tickets may also be purchased at the Hadley Union Building box office or by calling (724) 357-1313. Tickets remaining will be sold at the door starting one hour before the performance.

For more information, contact the Lively Arts at (724) 257-2787 (ARTS) or e-mail lively-arts@iup.edu.

IUP Music Theater is produced by the Department of Music. It is funded, in part, by the Student Cooperative Association.

The members—George Hill, Marine Corps veteran and group leader; John Hill and Danny Tucker, Army veterans; Carleton Griffin, Navy veteran; and Bobby Hanna, an Air Force veteran—each spoke to some aspect of their experience in the military and how they came to be homeless. They went on to explain how the Los Angeles-based New Directions program help them, along with becoming members of the choir.

They also took a variety of questions from the primarily IUP student audience members on topics ranging from military to music. Their answers were straightforward and came from their own personal experiences. Twice during the session they took time to sing a song as a preview to the evening performance, including their signature tune, “Lean on Me.”

The session was hosted by the Lively Arts in partnership with the IUP Libraries as the first of three Library Lively Arts Mary Jane Schafer Memorial events, and was MC’d by Michelle Papakie, a Journalism professor and lieutenant colonel in the Pennsylvania Air National Guard.

Said one of the ROTC commanders, Captain David Sabulsky, “It was great having the group here, as several topics discussed had attributes and lessons geared toward the development of a leader.”

The group also announced their work towards the recording and release of their first CD, appropriately titled New Directions Veterans Choir: The First Recording. It is being done through Kickstarter, a Web-based initiative for raising funds for the project. They are determined to raise awareness of homeless veterans through their music and this project, and to spread their message of “There is hope, there is help.” If you are interested in supporting the project, go to Kickstarter and follow the links for the New Direction Veterans Choir.

For the evening performance on November 13, held in Fisher Auditorium, the five veterans were joined by four female singers, all of whom have close ties to the military and the choir.

The repertoire will feature numerous pieces for the 30-member ensemble along with works for smaller groups. The performance will begin with the U.S. premiere of Jack Stamp’s “WASBE 2011 Fanfare,” which was commissioned for the 2011 World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles conference, held in Taiwan.

David Ferguson, assistant dean of the College of Fine Arts, will be the featured soloist on an arrangement of “Here’s That Rainy Day.” Kevin Eisensmith directs the IUP Trumpet Ensemble.

The IUP Trumpet Ensemble includes both Music majors and non-music majors, who audition for acceptance into the group. For more information about the IUP Trumpet Ensemble recital, please contact Eisensmith at 724-357-1246.

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For the recording, several arrangements were written especially for the HoodleBug Brass by faculty members Jack Stamp, Keith Young, Dave Ferguson, and Zach Collins. IIUP alumni providing arrangements include Ken Young (1972), Anthony O’Toole (2011), and Michael Gaydeski (2011). Also featured on the disc are Michael Kingan on drumset and the Baumer Treble Choir.

Jim Haydon of Complex One Recording Studios in Indiana was the recording engineer for the project, and Meghan McMeans, a student in the IUP Art Department, created the artwork for the CD.

The HoodleBug Brass released its first compact disc, entitled Brass Fac’s, in March 2004. Their second disc, Off the Trac’s, was released in October 2009. The quintet performs works of all styles, from the Baroque to contemporary, pop, and jazz. Most recently, the HoodleBug Brass traveled to Russia in October 2012 and participated in brass festivals held in St. Petersburg and Moscow.

Admission to the concert is free. Following the performance on December 4, there will be a reception and a “signing party” for anyone interested in purchasing a copy of the compact disc. The cost of the CD is $15. The recording may also be purchased as digital downloads through iTunes, Amazon. or CDBaby. They are also available through the IUP Bookstore or in town at the Artists Hand Gallery.

Members of the HoodleBug include Kevin Eisensmith and Dave Fergurson, trumpet; Jack Scandrett, horn; Christian Dickinson, trombone; and Zach Collins, tuba.

For more information regarding this and other programs, please call the the Lively Arts, call 724-357-2787 (ARTS), or e-mail lively-arts@iup.edu.

Shrek the Musical is a romantic twisted fairy tale, and is irreverernt fun for everyone. Tickets are now on sale through the HUB Box Office in person, by calling 724-357-1313, or online at IUP Tickets. Zoned and reserved seating prices range from $12 to $35.

Patrons will also be able to purchase tickets by calling the Hadley Union Box Office at 724-357-1313. The tickets will be available through December 12 and then will become available again approximately one month before each event.

Those purchasing tickets will receive their order within five business days and in plenty of time for your holiday gift giving. For more information, call the Lively Arts at 724-357-2787 (ARTS) or e-mail lively-arts@iup.edu.

The Spring semester events available November 13–December 12 include the following:

Ovations!

• Around the World in 80 Days • February 12
• John Blake Jr. Quartet • February 21
• Renée Fleming • March 2
• Daedalus Quartet • March 13
• Cimarron • April 4
• Hair: The Musical • April 14
• Temptation of the Muses • April 25

Theater-by-the-Grove, Dance Theater, Sound
Choices, and Music Theater

• Your'e a Good Man, Charlie Brown • March 6–10
• An Evening of Dance and Percussion • April 6
• Lysistrata • April 25–May 4
• An Opera Gala • May 10

Remaining Fall Semester Series Events

Tickets for Broadway touring production of Shrek: The Musical will also go on sale November 13. Also currently on sale is the IUP Music Theater production of The Pirates of Penzance.

The event will be hosted by journalism professor Michelle Papakie, herself a veteran with over 20 years of service in the Air National Guard. The choir members will offer candid views about their experiences in the armed services as well as the challenges they faced upon returning home.

As audience favorites on NBC’s America’s Got Talent, the New Directions Veterans Choir proved that their amazing voices are as inspiring as the story behind their founding. Founded and directed by George Hill, the choir consists of men and women who have served proudly in the United States military and are current or former residents of New Directions transitional facility, a center dedicated to helping homeless veterans reclaim command over their lives.

This event is brought to campus by the Lively Arts and its educational division, ArtsPath, and in partnership with the IUP Libraries through the Mary Jane Schafer Memorial. It is the first of three events being presented through this partnership. Questions on the outreach may be directed to the Lively Arts office at 724-357-2787 (ARTS).

Tickets are now on sale for the evening performance and can be obtained at the HUB box office or at IUP Tickets. Tickets will also be available at the door starting at 7:00 p.m. that evening.

This year’s concert brings back the tradition of featuring another music ensemble for the performance. Joining in the program will be the IUP Jazz Ensemble under the direction of Kevin Eisensmith.

Both ensembles will perform a special collection of moving, spirited, and highly energized music from their repertoire from great jazz hits to concert versions of the band’s field routines.

Tickets are $9 for regular admission, $8 for senior citizens, and $6 for students and children. Tickets will be sold at the door starting at 6:00 p.m. the night of the performance.

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The ensemble’s vocal prowess is as enthralling and inspiring as the story behind them. Originally comprised of formerly homeless veterans who enrolled in the New Directions program in Los Angeles, the New Directions Veterans Choir is directed by its founder, George Hill.

Hill was homeless for 12 years following his service as a Marine and before enrolling in the New Directions program. Before then, he had grown accustomed to living and singing in MacArthur Park. But, after joining the program, Hill began to compose arresting harmonies and gathered a repertoire of old-school soul and gospel, forming a choir with his peers. “Through singing,” George says, “we hope to let veterans who may be suffering know that there is hope for them.”

The New Directions Veterans Choir performed during the fifth season of America's Got Talent and has been featured on NBC Nightly News and E! Entertainment Television. They have performed at over 100 venues and events, including The Donny and Marie Show, the Democratic National Convention, and for members of the United States Congress. In 2006, the Choir took to the stage for a production of Michael McFall's Dirty White Tuxedo Pants and a Brown Paper Bag, the tale of a homeless Vietnam veteran living on the streets of Los Angeles.

As part of the performance, the local Indiana VFW Post 1989 will be organizing a special color guard to present and retire the “Colors.” The local veterans, along with the IUP Veterans Student Organization, will be on hand to host the concert and provide information. Indiana County commissioner MG Rod Ruddock will also be on hand to make a special presentation during the event.

With the generous sponsorship of several Indiana area veterans, individuals, businesses, and veteran organizations, proceeds from the concert that exceed expenses will be donated by the Lively Arts to the Indiana Veterans Affairs Office to provide support for area veterans in need.

Tickets are available in advance online at IUPTickets.com, by calling 724-357-1313, or at the Hadley Union Building on the IUP campus. Tickets will also be available at the door starting one hour before the performance.

Tickets are $12 for students and children, $18 for senior citizens, and $23 for regular admission. For more information, contact the Lively Arts at 724-357-2787 (ARTS) or e-mail lively-arts@iup.edu.

In addition to seasonal sponsors and those contributing through the Lively Arts’ Premiere Club, special funding is being provided by several individuals and the following veterans organizations: VFW Post 1989, American Legion 27th District, American Legion Home Association, VFW Post 7377, McDonald Veterans Post 7503, American Legion Post 141, and VFW Post 7043. A full list of contributors will be provided in the printed program.

Led by Stanley Chepaitis and Ryan Beeken, the IUP Symphony Orchestra and Choir will perform on Thursday, December 6, at 8:00 p.m. in Fisher Auditorium.

The IUP Concert Band, Symphony Band, and Wind Ensemble will perform under the direction of Jason Worzbyt and Jack Stamp on Saturday, December 8, at 7:30 p.m. in Fisher Auditorium.

General admission ticket prices for both performances are $9 regular, $8 senior or group, and $6 with an I-Card, and are now available through the HUB Box Office, in person or by calling 724-357-1313.

The program will feature new and old works in collaboration with acclaimed jazz guitarist John Stowell. Nathan Santos, jazz bassist, will also join the quartet in works based on classical compositions of Maurice Ravel and J.S. Bach. These are multi-genre works that weave together the sounds of string quartet and jazz improvisation.

The jazz guitar mastery of John Stowell has been delighting audiences since the 1970s. The list of artists with whom he has collaborated speaks for itself. Most notably, he has performed with flutist Paul Horn and bassist David Friesen as well as Milt Jackson, Lionel Hampton, Art Farmer, Herb Ellis, Bill Watrous, Richie Cole, and many more. Stowell’s album with Davis Friesen, Through the Listening Glass, was named one of the ten best albums of the decade by the Los Angeles Examiner. He was twice chosen as “Talent deserving more recognition” by Downbeat Magazine.

The Litton Quartet will also welcome back Nathan Santos, who performed Dvorak’s quintet with the Litton last season. Now in the guise of a jazz bassist, Santos joins us from his new teaching position at Tiffin University in Ohio.

The Litton Quartet is IUP’s quartet in residence. Its members include Stanley and Swana Chepaitis, violin; Raul Faure, viola; and Linda Jennings, cello. 

Tickets for the concert are sold in advance at the Hadley Union Building. They will also be sold at the door starting at 7:15 p.m. the night of the recital. Tickets are $9 regular admission, $8 for senior citizens, and $6 for students and children.

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In addition, the Symphony Band will perform Robert Cameron’s transcription of Franz Beibl’s beautiful choral work, “Ave Maria.” The ensemble will end the first half of the concert with Symphony No. 3 by Boris Kozhevnikov, subtitled “Slavyanskaya.” One of the earliest symphonies for band, the work was edited by John Bourgeois for the modern American band instrumentation.

The wind ensemble opens the second half of the concert with Ingolf Dahl’s “Sinfonietta.” The work dates from 1964 and is considered by many to be one of the finest, if not the finest work for band ever written. The work is cast in three movements: Introduction and Rondo, Pastoral Nocturne, and Dance Variations.

The concert will conclude with Leonard Bernstein’s “Profanation” movement from his first symphony. Written in 1943, the band transcription was done by Frank Bencrisscutto. The work, conducted by graduate conducting associate Matthew Morse, will bring a rousing conclusion to an evening filled with musical variety.

Tickets for the performance will be sold at the door starting at 7:00 p.m. prior to the concert. Tickets are $9 regular admission, $8 for senior citizens, and $6 for students and children.

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Written by Gilbert and Sullivan and directed by Sarah Mantel, this celebrated comic opera has something for the whole family—love stories, sword fights, dancing, and much more! The Pirates of Penzance will be held in Fisher Auditorium at 8:00 p.m. on November 30 and December 1, with a special matinee performance at 2:00 p.m. on December 2.

General admission seating ticket prices are $15 regular, $13 senior discount, and $9 with an I-Card. Tickets are on sale through the HUB Box Office, in person, by calling 724-357-1313, or online at IUP Ttickets.

This fresh, witty, and surprising new play takes place on move-in weekend at a Southern Baptist seminary in Texas. Max, a CEO at 29, has given up her career to support her husband, Paul, in his quest to become a pastor. Unknown to her, his decision rests on a guilty secret and a deal he has made with God.

Max’s position as a resident advisor in a homemaking house on campus brings her into contact with women who have views very different from her own, including Terri Patterson, dean of Women’s Programs, and Beth, a devout young Baptist with her own guilty secret. As the characters struggle to define themselves in the context of their beliefs and their relationships, the results are both moving and comic.

According to director Rick Kemp, “It’s a delight to work with such a well-crafted play. The characters are wrestling with substantial issues; but, at the same time, the dialogue is sharp and funny. It’s a great opportunity for audiences to see the work of a talented young playwright whose work is just taking off nationally and internationally.”

Kemp further explains that In Quietness is intimately staged, so the audience has a close-up view of the action. The imaginative scenic design allows the action to take place simultaneously in multiple locations and will be instantly recognizable to anyone who has ever shopped in Ikea.

Kemp, a member of the IUP theater faculty, has over 30 years professional experience as an actor and director, gained in the United Kingdom, Europe, and the U.S.A. He has received numerous awards, including the French government’s Institut Francais award, the British Telecom Innovations Award, and the 2004 Heinz Endowments Creative Heights Award.

Moench just received the prestigious Jerome Fellowship, a national award presented by the Playwrights Center. These have been awarded since 1976, with previous recipients including renowned playwrights Lee Blessing and August Wilson.The play is being presented as part of Theater-by-the-Grove’s commitment to the Women Playwrights Initiative of the National Theatre Conference.

In Quietness contains language and situations to which some audience members may object.

Tickets for In Quietness are available in advance at the Hadley Union Building, located on Pratt Drive of the IUP campus. Seats remaining will be sold at the door starting 45 minutes before each performance. Tickets are priced at $14 for regular admission, $12 for senior citizens and groups of 15 or more, and $8 for students.

Tickets are available in advance online at IUPTickets.com, at the Hadley Union Building, or by calling the HUB Box Office at 724-357-1313. Tickets remaining will be sold at the door starting 45 minutes before the performance. For more information, contact the Lively Arts at 724-357-2547 or e-mail lively-arts@iup.edu.

Theater-by-the-Grove is produced by the Department of Theater and Dance and the College of Fine Arts. It is funded, in part, by the IUP Student Cooperative Association.

As Igoe began his workshop on drumming technique for an eager audience, he stressed the importance of hands-on learning. Looking out into the rows of curious faces, he said, “I’m not going to be playing drums during this workshop . . . you are.” A wave of anxious excitement washed over the room. Igoe’s personality is full of an energy that demands serious effort from his students.

As the workshop moved forward, volunteers stepped up, each playing along with Igoe’s musical samples in ways that sound, at first, spot on. Once we heard Tommy’s advice, however, each performance was exponentially improved.

Near the end of the workshop, Igoe took questions where he spoke about his influences, experiences, and the irresistible drive to make great music. “You have to want it more than anything else,” he said to a student wondering about a future as a touring musician. “You have to go find a scene, you have to go live with five other musicians in a tiny apartment and eat Spaghetti-O’s for five years.” It became clear that Tommy’s truest classroom is the stage and no amount of study can compare to the lived experience of performing in a public space.

Following the workshop, Igoe sat down at his kit to jam with the IUP Jazz Ensemble. Playing a handful of pieces from their current program, the assembled musicians filled the room with smiles and nodding heads as Tommy provided both the backbone of the beat and the impromptu fill of transitional grooves streaming out into the halls of Cogswell. As the session went on, a crowd of students were drawn to the music, and the doorway filled with approving listeners.

That evening, playing to a large house, Tommy Igoe and his Birdland Big Band demonstrated the afternoon’s lessons as they took to the stage in an incredible display of musical prowess. The show began with Igoe soloing with the IUP Jazz Ensemble for a couple of numbers and ended with their signature song, “Birdland,” and a standing ovation.

Signing autographs and chatting with fans after the show, Igoe’s passion and casual demeanor were evident, ensuring that the IUP community will long remember him and the music he showed us how to hear.

Tommy Igoe’s drumming workshop was brought to IUP by ArtsPath, the arts-in-education arm of the Lively Arts in the College of Fine Arts at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and in partnership with the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and a variety of dedicated sponsors and donors.

It will feature the church choirs of Indiana under the direction of English conductor and IUP alumnus Stephen Gregson (M.A., 2000). The program, titled “Make a Joyful Noise Unto the Lord All the Earth (Psalm 98),” also features IUP alumna Sandra Rubright (B.S., 1973), organ; IUP’s faculty brass ensemble the HoodleBug Brass’ IUP voice faculty member Joseph Baunoch, bass; Ryan Beekan, tenor and newly-appointed director of choral Activities at IUP; and members of the IUP organ studio. Pre-concert organ and brass music will begin at 2:40 p.m.

Gregson brings a wealth of experience to the podium. A graduate of Trinity College, London, where he studied piano, percussion, and composition, he is also a Licentiate of the College, earning a Postgraduate Certificate in Education. His Master of Arts degree is in Instrumental Wind Conducting from IUP, where he studied with Jack Stamp.

In addition to a substantial career in music education, Gregson is well known for his work as a freelance conductor, pianist, and percussionist. He is a choral conducting trainer for Sing for Pleasure method, an examiner for the Royal Schools of Music, and a published arranger.

As a conductor, he has lead groups for the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association (USA) and the South Wessex Opera Company, in addition to directing at the Milton Abbey Festival and working with the Bournemouth Symphony Youth Chorus. He has also directed several choral societies, including Broadstone Community Choir, the Lease Singers, and Lytchett Choir.

Over the years, the Choral and Hymn Festival concert has proven to be one of the most popular events presented by the Carol Teti Memorial Organ Scholarship Committee. It celebrates the critical role that organ music plays in the life of our respective churches, bringing together the community and inspiring all those in attendance as a chorus of organ, brass, and voice envelops them.

Sunday’s program includes music by Felix Bartholdy-Mendelssohn, Charles Villiers Stanford, George Friedrich Handel, and John Rutter. Written specifically for this fifth choral and hymn festival, Gregson’s “Fanfare on Gopsal” will be premiered by the choir, brass, and organ. Audience members will also have the opportunity to join the choir on several well-known hymns.

Scholarship funds are used to support the two-plus decades of work by the Carol Teti Memorial Organ Scholarship Committee. All participants and audience members are invited to enjoy a free reception at the conclusion of the concert.

For additional information, please call (724) 463-8046, or e-mail Christine Clewell at orgel@iup.edu.

Beckman, one of New York’s most promising young contemporary artists, first rose to the national spotlight as a cast member of MTV’s ground-breaking reality television program Real World (Chicago 2001). Just nine months before he joined the cast, he ended a tumultuous 12-year period of alcohol and drug abuse that started when he was only 11 years old, and he has remained sober ever since.

Following his experience on Real World and realizing a gift and power to add a unique voice to those in recovery, Beckman authored a highly successful book titled Clean: A New Generation in Recovery Speaks Out (Hazelden, 2005). The book is part autobiography and part guide targeted to those in recovery and others dealing with loved ones affected by chemical dependency.

He has spoken at dozens of colleges and universities across the country from Yale to Pepperdine, Vermont to Washington, from all SUNY campuses to the University of Arizona, and dozens in between. His college lectures touch on issues that carry personal weight, including alcohol awareness, sexual orientation, and expressing his life through art.

Always in pursuit of his artistic talents, Beckman reignited his passion for creating art through painting, sculpture, and photography. His work has been shown in galleries, exhibits, fairs, and private collections across the globe.

Forthcoming exhibits include shows in Buenos Aires, Miami, and New York, to name just a few. His works have also been seen in a variety of other shows and galleries in Boston, New York, Long Island, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Lima, and more. He will also be represented at TEFAF 2013 in Maastricht, Netherlands, the world’s leading art and antiques fair.

Born in 1977 in Brockton, Mass., Beckman has appeared on Good Morning America, The View, and The Roseanne Show and has been interviewed by Diane Sawyer and Ellen DeGeneres, among others. In 2005, for their 20th anniversary issue, People magazine named Beckman one of the 100 “Sexiest Men Alive,” the first openly gay man to be named to the list. He has also worked as an actor and as a Ford Agency model for Polo Ralph Lauren and others.

Beckman’s activities in Indiana focused on exploring possibilities that would involve future visits that will more deeply and directly address the needs of different groups. Those attending the various activities included community representatives from the Indiana, Armstrong, Clarion Drug and Alcohol Commission; Indiana Cares Campaign; PFLAG Indiana; Indiana Arts Council; Artists Hand Gallery; Pennsylvania Rural Arts Alliance; Indiana Art Association; and several local professional artists.

Campus departments and programs represented included the Department of Art, Student Art Association, National Art Educational Association, Kipp Gallery, University Museum, Department of Theater and Dance, Center for Student Life, the Counseling Center, Pride Alliance, the President’s Commission on GLBT Issues, the Safe Zone, Six O’Clock Series, Living-Learning Community, IUP Health and Awareness Center, and Office of Student Conduct.

The visit and activities were coordinated by the Lively Arts, a program of the College of Fine Arts, as part of its Ideas and Issues series. Ideas and Issues works to bring speakers to campus that address topical and current issues that are relevant in today’s society.

Spanning 13,000 islands and a great diversity of people, Indonesia hosts a fascinating array of dynamic art forms. The IUP Indonesian Cultural Arts Day will celebrate the unique cultural arts of Indonesia with displays featuring arts from different regions of Indonesia, workshop opportunities to learn Indonesian music and dance, and an evening performance highlighting different styles of music and dance from Indonesia. These events are the culmination of the IUP International Education Week and is a featured event as part of IUP Family Weekend.

Throughout the day, an Indonesian Cultural Arts Exhibition will provide displays of Indonesian arts and crafts from 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. in the Ohio Room of the Hadley Union Building. During the afternoon, Indonesian music and dance will be seen firsthand in two workshops from 3:30–5:00 p.m.

Also in the Ohio Room, the director of the Anklung ensemble, based in Washington, D.C., will teach participants how to play traditional bamboo instruments. Those interested in dance can join the Balinese dance workshop in Cogswell Hall, Room 126. No prior experience is needed to participate in the workshops.

The evening performance starts at 7:00 p.m. in Gorell Recital Hall, located on the second floor of Sutton Hall. Several performers will present traditional and popular Indonesian music and dance. Featured guest performers and ensembles include the Kolaborasi Gamelan Jawa (Javanese instrumental ensemble) and Calung (a bamboo instrumental ensemble) from the Pittsburgh area; Balinese dancers and the Anklung ensemble (another style of bamboo instrument ensemble) from Washington, D.C.; and Sundanese (Western Java) musical styles performed by Indra Ridwan, faculty member of the Indonesian College of Arts, Bandung, and at Pasundan University in Bandung, Indonesia.

In addition, IUP music faculty members Stanley Chepaitis and Linda Jennings will perform with the Kolaborasi Gamelan Jawa ensemble. The program will conclude with a performance of Dandung, a popular style of music, with a chance for audience members to get join in the dance.

Attendance vouchers will be available for students for the workshops and evening program. Recital attendance will be available for music students.

This program is sponsored by the IUP Office of International Education, the Indonesian Embassy, and the IUP departments of Communication Media, MIS and Decision Sciences, and Music. It is also supported by the Indonesian communities in Indiana, Pittsburgh, Monroeville, and Washington, D.C.

For more information, please contact Kustim Wibewo at (724) 357-5773 or Linda Jennings at (724) 357-2649.

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For their second performance of the season, the Litton String Quartet will be joined by faculty member Nathan Santos on bass and special guest jazz guitarist John Stowell on Monday, November 12, at 8:00 p.m. in Gorell Recital Hall.

The IUP Concert Band and Jazz Band will perform under the direction of Jason Worzbyt and Keith Young on Thursday, November 15, at 7:30 p.m. in Fisher Auditorium.

General admission ticket prices for both performances are $9 regular, $8 senior or group, and $6 with an I-Card, and are now available through the HUB Box Office, in person or by calling 724-357-1313.

Bands in Review, a Sound Choices event, will take place on Sunday, November 11, at 7:00 p.m. in Fisher Auditorium. Conducted by David Martynuik, the IUP Marching Band performs a collection of spirited music; and, led by Kevin Eisensmith, the IUP Jazz Ensemble showcases swing. General admission seating prices are $9 regular, $8 senior or group, and $6 with an I-Card.

The New Directions Veterans Choir will perform in Fisher Auditorium on Tuesday, November 13 at 8:00 p.m. These military veterans will inspire the audience with their story and their music the same way they reached out to millions as a finalist on America’s Got Talent. Reserved seating prices for this Ovations! performance are $23 regular, $18 senior or group, and $12 with an I-Card.

The Orchestra was formed in 1985 as a bit of fun. However, the first gig was an instant sellout, and they have been performing ever since. They have become something of a national institution. According to the the Independent in the U.K., “They are the best musical entertainment in the country... worth traveling a thousand miles to hear.”

The “Ukes,” as they are often called, claim they go from Tchaikovsky to Nirvana via Otis Redding and Spaghetti Western soundtracks and take the audience on a “a world tour with only hand luggage.”

The UOGB has given hundreds of sold-out concerts across the world, including Great Britain, Germany, Sweden, Finland, Poland, France, the U.S., Canada, New Zealand, and Japan. They have more recently performed sellout shows at the Sydney Opera House, the Royal Albert Hall in London, and New York’s Carnegie Hall. They will return to Carnegie Hall as part of this year’s U.S. tour prior to visiting Indiana.

The “Uke’s” music has been used in films, plays, and commercials, while film clips of the Orchestra’s live concerts and TV appearances on websites such as YouTube have been watched by millions Collaborators have included Madness, David Arnold, the British Film Institute, the Ministry of Sound, Yusuf Islam (aka Cat Stevens), and the Kaiser Chiefs.

As part of their visit to Indiana, the UOGB will present a special “Uke Jam.” Community members who have a ukulele are invited to bring it to the jam prepared to play Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy.” These brave community members with then join the Orchestra from their seats to perform the work during the concert. You can find out more information, see the music, and sign up for the jam by checking the outreach information on the Lively Arts’ website.

Tickets are available now at the Hadley Union Building, by calling 724-357-1313, or online at IUP Tickets. Tickets are $12 for children and students, $18 for senior citizens and groups of 15 or more, and $23 for regular admission. Tickets remaining will be sold at the door starting at 7:00 p.m. the night of the concert.

For more information, contact the Lively Arts at 724-357-2787 (ARTS) or e-mail lively-arts@iup.edu.

This project is funded, in part, by the IUP Student Cooperative Association. Additional funding is provided by grants, business sponsors, and individual contributions made through the Premiere Club for the Lively Arts.

A new twist on an old classic, the storyline of this dance production follows the basic structure of the classic tale written by L. Frank Baum, but takes liberties with the characters and the places as it unfolds a unique version of the story.

A Whirlwind to Oz follows the journey of Dorothy, Toto, Scary Bro, Tinsel Woman, and Lionel the Accessory Coward as they travel to Emerald Island in search of answers. Along the way, they encounter other characters, including Glinda the Bedazzle Witch, the Wicked Witch of Prada, and, eventually, the Enchantress of Oz.

Dorothy, along with her new friends, learn important lessons about life as they face each situation encountered on their expedition.

IUP Dance Theater is under the direction of Holly Boda-Sutton.

Tickets for A Whirlwind to Oz are available in advance at the Hadley Union Building, located on Pratt Drive of the IUP campus. Tickets are also available online at IUPTickets.com or by calling 724-357-1313.

Tickets are priced at $14 for regular admission, $12 for senior citizens and groups of 15 or more, and $8 with a university I-Card. Seats remaining will be sold at the door starting 45 minutes before each performance.

For more information, contact the Lively Arts at 724-357-2787 (ARTS) or e-mail lively-arts@iup.edu.

IUP Dance Theater is funded, in part, by the IUP Student Cooperative Association.

Pictured from left to right are Lisa Schneider as Dorothy, Lindsey Grove as the Good Witch, and Malaya Garett as the Wicked Witch.

The first IUP Bands in Concert event of the season will take place at 8:00 p.m. in Fisher Auditorium on Thursday, November 8, 2012. General admission ticket prices are $9 regular, $8 senior or group, and $6 with an I-Card.

Tickets can be obtained in person at the HUB Box Office or by calling 724-357-1313.

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The University Chorus and IUP Chorale will perform “A Choral Collage” on Sunday, October 14, 2012. Marking the debut concert for Ryan Beekan, newly appointed director of choral studies, the concert will begin at 3:00 p.m. It will be performed in Gorell Recital Hall, located on the second floor of IUP’s Sutton Hall.

Produced by the Department of Music at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, “A Choral Collage” will feature repertoire ranging from early Hebrew polyphony to 19th-century chamber music. It will include music originating from Estonia, Mongolia, Indonesia, and Kenya combined with works by living American composers.

Beeken joined IUP in August as an assistant professor and the director of choral activities. He received his Bachelor of Music degree in vocal performance and Bachelor of Music Education degrees from Drake University and Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in choral conducting from Michigan State University.

His choirs have performed at state, regional, and national conventions of the American Choral Directors Association. His collaborations include projects with Simon Estes, Cantus, and the King Singers.

Beeken has been engaged as a conductor, clinician, and adjudicator throughout the United States and he regularly presents sessions for state and regional symposia.

Prior to his appointment at IUP, Beeken taught at Michigan State University, where he conducted the Women’s Glee Club. While residing in Des Moines, Iowa, he directed the Drake Chorale at Drake University. He also taught elementary, middle school, and high school music, most recently serving as director of vocal music for Waukee Schools in suburban Des Moines.

Tickets for the performance are available in advance at the Hadley Union Building on campus or by calling 724-357-1313. Tickets are $9 regular admission; $8 discount (seniors and groups); and $6 for children, students, and I-Card holders. Any tickets remaining will be sold at the door starting 45 minutes before the performance.

For more information, contact the Lively Arts at 724-357-2787 (ARTS) or e-mail lively-arts@iup.edu.

The Lively Arts at IUP has released four additional short informational videos to add to the original video unveiled in early September 2012. That original video explains the wide variety of services and events offered the Lively Arts for the campus and the community.

In these newer videos, different activities are explained in more detail. Two videos describe ArtsPath, the Lively Arts long-standing tradition of expanding the performance experience into the classrooms. Another talks about the excitement related to seeing a live performance, with the final video explaining a special opportunity for area businesses.

“ArtsPath in the Schools” talks about the opportunities the programs provide to thousands of area students. Elementary teacher Sue Stitt and Indiana Area High School Assistant Principal Bob Rizzo give two specific examples, while Indiana County Commissioner Rod Ruddock sums it up by talking about the “blessing we have” right here in Indiana County with the Lively Arts.

“ArtsPath on Campus” touches on those opportunities provided to IUP students in a wide variety of disciplines. According to student Ryan Egan, “Lively Arts does a great arts outreach program. So, there are a variety of activities . . .”

“Experiences” talks about the benefits of coming to a live performance. In the words of one of those providing a description, Walter Gallati explains, “Aside from an entertainment event, it’s a social event also . . . Seeing something on TV, you don’t get an appreciation of the expanse . . . or being into it as much as when you are in the audience . . . You feel more involved.”

A final video segment has area resident and businessman Jim Martin discussing the Educational Improvement Tax Credit program. This program provides Pennsylvania businesses the opportunity to designate tax revenue to the educational activity provided by the Lively Arts. These funds go directly to providing arts outreach to area school students.

According to Lively Arts Director Hank Knerr, these short videos were produced to give the public a better understanding of what the Lively Arts does. “There have been a number of changes over the past two years on how IUP serves the campus and the general community with arts events, activities, and services.

“With nearly 200 visual and performing arts events annually and dozens of related outreach activities, we want to make sure that everyone understands that IUP and the Lively Arts continue to be the single most active presenter of arts events and outreach in all of southwestern Pennsylvania outside the Pittsburgh city limits.”

James Staples, professor emeritus of the IUP Department of Music, will be joined by IUP alumnus and Staples’ stepson, Mark Richardson in presenting a recital of music for piano and violin beginning at 4:00 p.m. on October 13, 2012. It will be performed in Gorell Recital Hall, located on the second floor of John Sutton Hall. Admission is free.

Staples, piano, holds degrees in performance from Florida State University and Eastman School of Music. Prior to coming to IUP in 1967, he had taught at SUNY Fredonia. He has appeared frequently over the years as solo pianist, concerto soloist, accompanist, and chamber musician. He spent 50 years teaching at the university level, 44 of which were at IUP, retiring in 2011.

Graduating from IUP in 1984 with a B.F.A. in violin performance, Richardson also holds a M.Ed. degree from the University of Massachusetts–Boston. Since 2010, he has been studying violin under Sue Rabut, a member of Boston’s Lyric Opera, Opera Boston, and Boston Classical Orchestra. He has taught in Brockton, Mass., for the past 17 years and is a six-time recipient of the Inspirational Teacher Award, given to teachers by students who have been accepted in the National Honor Society at Brockton High School and Southeastern Regional High School.

he last time Richardson and Staples teamed up for a public recital was while Richardson was attending IUP. In the 1980s, Richardson also performed numerous concerts with the IUP Symphony Orchestra and Johnstown Symphony.

Together, they will present a program containing the masterworks of Johann Sebastian Bach and Johannes Brahms. They will also perform compositions by Mark Richardson’s long-time friend, Bryan Burkett, and Louis Richardson, Mark’s father. This will be the first recital at IUP for this team of musicians.

For more information, contact the Lively Arts at 724-357-2787 (ARTS).

Written by Anna Moench and directed by Richard Kemp, this play explores the difficulties of fitting oneself into a box of social expectations.

General admission seating ticket prices are: $14 Regular, $12 senior or group discount, and $8 with an I-Card.

Touring with the Glenn Miller Band when he was just 18 years old, Igoe was recognized early as a drumming prodigy whose skills on the “skins” earned him nearly every junior and senior high school drumming award on the east coast. Igoe spent the 1980s and 1990s touring with such groups as Blood, Sweat, and Tears; New York Voices; Stanley Jordan; Art Garfunkel; and Dave Grusin.

In 1997, he was asked to craft the drum set for Broadway’s The Lion King, a now-legendary production integrating modern drums with traditional African percussion which set a new benchmark for the diversity of sound in musical theater.

With the release of his groundbreaking 2004 bestseller Groove Essentials, Igoe’s technical methods of composing for drums has become a staple in universities and jazz clubs alike and have revolutionized 50 years of pedagogy in the field. Igoe’s second book and DVD, Great Hands for a Lifetime, remains the drum world’s number-one selling educational product. Igoe’s newest book and DVD, Fillosophy, brings his unique insight to the often confusing world of fills and solos.

Igoe’s Birdland Big Band plays weekly at the famous Birdland Jazz Club in New York City, where every one of his shows has sold out, making Igoe and his band one of the hottest musical ensembles in the country.

This dynamic new show recreates the ambience of a night at Birdland, the jazz Mecca founded in 1949 and named after alto saxophone player Charlie “Bird” Parker. Featuring New York’s finest musicians, the Birdland Big Band provides a musical event that goes beyond the traditional club experience and sets a new standard for jazz orchestras in the 21st century.

As a special part of his Indiana engagement, Igoe will solo with the IUP Jazz Ensemble, under the direction of Jack Stamp, at the start of the concert.

Tickets are available now at the Hadley Union Building, by calling 724-357-1313, or online at IUP Tickets. Tickets are $12 for children and students, $18 for senior citizens and groups of 15 or more, and $23 for regular admission.

For more information, contact the Lively Arts at 724-357-2787 (ARTS) or e-mail lively-arts@iup.edu.

This presentaiton is funded, in part, by the IUP Student Cooperative Association. Additional funding has been provided by a variety of individuals through the Lively Arts’ Premiere Club, business sponsors, campus and regional partners, and granting organizations.

The concert will include works from the Renaissance and Baroque periods, as well as traditional works composed specifically for band.

A highlight of the concert will be a performance of John Barnes Chance’s “Introduction and Capriccio” for solo piano and winds, featuring new faculty member Jacob Ertl as soloist.

Works of Clifton Williams, John Zdecklik, Sergei Prokofiev, and Ralph Vaughan Williams will be included.

The concert also includes a special tribute to James Croft, long-time band director at Florida State University who passed away two weeks ago.

Tickets are available in advance at the Hadley Union Building or by calling 724-357-1313. Tickets remaining will be available at the door starting one hour before the performance. Tickets are $9 regular admission, $8 discount (seniors and groups), and $6 I-Card (students and children).

For more information about tickets, contact the Lively Arts at 724-357-2787 (ARTS).

The HoodleBug Brass, IUP’s Department of Music faculty brass quintet in residence, will present their Fall 2012 recital on Thursday, October 4, 2012, beginning at 8:00 p.m. The performance will be held at Trinity United Methodist Church, located at Fourth and Church streets in Indiana.

The HoodleBug Brass is comprised of the four full-time brass faculty within the Department of Music and the assistant dean of the College of Fine Arts. Members are (pictured left to right) Jack Scandrett, David Ferguson, Zachary Collins, Kevin Eisensmith, and Christian Dickinson.

The program will feature music by American composer John Cheetham and Dutch composer Jan Koetsier. Also, a highlight will be a collection of American classics, including John Philip Sousa’s “Semper Fidelis March,” Fats Waller’s “Ain’t Misbehavin’,” and “I Want to Hold Your Hand” by Lennon and McCartney. The program will conclude with Lew Pollack’s “That’s a Plenty.”

The ensemble performs regularly on the IUP campus and presents numerous clinics and concerts in public schools and churches throughout the region each year. The HoodleBug Brass released its first compact disc, titled Brass Facs’, in March 2004. Their second disc, Off the Trac’s, was released in October 2009. The quintet performs works of all styles, from the Baroque to contemporary and from pop to jazz.

This performance will serve as the “send off” concert for the quintet before the group leaves for Russia on October 7 to participate in brass festivals that will be held in St. Petersburg and Moscow. They will also present master classes at the Rimsky-Korsakov Music College in St. Petersburg and at the Moscow Conservatory.

A “HoodleBug” is a local term for coined for “doodlebug,” the name given to a single-car, self-propelled train or trolley. The HoodleBug Trail is a “rails to trails” project that runs from the southern end of the IUP campus for six miles to the central portion of Indiana County.

Admission is free. However, donations will be accepted and will be used to purchase music to be donated to the Rimsky-Korsakov Music College.

For more information regarding this and other programs, please call the Department of Music, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, at 724-357-2390 or the Lively Arts at 724-357-2787 (ARTS).

One of the most unique and entertaining groups on tour today, the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain is the next performance in the Ovations! series. Tickets are now available through the HUB Box Office, in person, or by calling 724-357-1313.

This quirky ensemble spins out familiar, popular, and classical tunes in a way never heard before. The show takes place on Tuesday, October 23, 2012, at 8:00 p.m. in Fisher Auditorium. Reserved seating ticket prices are $23 regular, $18 senior or group discount, and $12 with an I-Card.

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More recently, Martinez has made a name for himself as a daytime television actor on ABC’s Emmy Award-winning daytime drama All My Children and as the 2011 co-champion of ABC’s Dancing With the Stars.

He has also appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show, 60 Minutes, The View, Inside Edition, and Good Morning America, along with additional appearances on major national and international news networks.

Martinez, who played high school football in the Georgia State Championships, enlisted in the U.S. Army after a sports injury derailed his dreams of an NFL career. After undergoing basic training at Fort Benning in 2002, he was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment of the Army’s 101st Airborne Division.

In 2003, Martinez was deployed to Iraq, where he would face one of the greatest challenges of his life. Less than a month after his arrival, the Humvee that Martinez was driving struck a landmine. Three other soldiers were ejected from the burning vehicle, but Martinez was trapped inside the blaze, where he suffered severe burns to more than a third of his body.

He went on to spend almost three years in recovery, during which time he underwent 33 different surgeries, including skin grafts and cosmetic reconstructions.

During his time in recovery, Martinez found that he could connect to other traumatized soldiers through his shared experience. The uplifting nature of his indomitable spirit was able to impact the lives of others who were suffering, revealing to Martinez a new path that would open so many doors for him.

Now a highly sought-after motivational speaker, Martinez travels the country to deliver his message of strength and hope. He has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, New York Times, New York Daily News, and People magazine.

Martinez and his girlfriend, Diana Gonzalez-Jones, welcomed a baby daughter, Lauryn Anabelle, in May 2012. Also in May, Martinez narrated the CNN documentary Voters in America: Vets Wanted. His book, Full of Heart: My Story of Survival, Strength, and Spirit, will be released on October 30.

The inaugural First Commonwealth Bank Endowed Lecture in October 2008 featured political commentators James Carville and Mary Matalin. The program continued in 2009 with Pulitzer Prize-winning author and investigative reporter Bob Woodward, followed in 2010 with Apollo commander Captain James Lovell Jr. The 2011 lecture was presented by outed CIA operations officer Valerie Plame Wilson and her husband, Ambassador Joseph Wilson.

Admission is free, but tickets are required. Up to four tickets can ordered by calling 724-357-1313 or by visiting the Hadley Union Building Box Office on Pratt Drive on the IUP campus. To request more than four tickets, please contact the Lively Arts at 724-357-ARTS (2787) or e-mail lively-arts@iup.edu. Any seats remaining will be available at the door starting at 7:00 p.m.

The lecture is funded by the IUP Student Cooperative Association and First Commonwealth Bank.

The Litton will premiere a new composition by first violinist Stanley Chepaitis (pictured below) titled “The Art of Conversation.”

In explaining the work, Chepaitis stated, “Johann von Goethe was the first to verbalize the resemblance of a string quartet performance to a lively conversation. In my new work, I have tried to portray this conversational aspect in modern terms.”

He goes on to say, “In the first movement ‘Isolation,’ for example, the instruments don't interact at all, like a group of people standing together, but talking on separate cell phones. From there, I tried to explore different forms of interaction.”

Other movements are titled “Argument,” “Listening,” and “Airy Persiflage.”

The quartet will also perform works by Haydn and Mendelssohn.

Stanley Cheapitis received his D.M.A. degree from the Eastman School of Music and serves as chair of the strings program at IUP. Recent performances have included appearances at the University of Oregon, the School for Strings in Buffalo, N.Y., University of New Mexico, Eastman School’s Kilbourne Hall, the academies of music in Zagreb, Croatia, and Ljubljana, Slovenia, and concerto performances with the Hershey Symphony and the Orchard Park Symphony.

Swana Chepaitis, violin, received a Diploma in Violin Pedagogy from the Hochschüle fuer Kuenste in Bremen, Germany. She is a former member of L’Arco, a baroque orchestra based in Hannover, Germany.

Joining the quartet as violist is Raul Faure, a native of Santiago, Chile, where he performed with the Orquestra Sinfonica de Chile prior to moving to the U.S. He holds music degrees from Carnegie Mellon and Duquesne universities.

Linda Jennings, cello, received her doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin. She was director of the internationally acclaimed UT String Project and has been principle cellist of the Fairbanks (Alaska) Symphony, the Arctic Chamber Orchestra, and the Chamber Orchestra of the Alleghenies.

Tickets are available in advance online at IUPTickets.com, by calling 724-357-1313, or by visiting the Hadely Union Box Office. Tickets remaining will be sold at the door starting 45 minutes before the performance.

For more information, contact the Lively Arts at 724-357-2787 (ARTS) or e-mail lively-arts@iup.edu.

The Lively Arts is funded, in part, by the IUP Student Cooperative Assocation.

Performances will continue September 28–29 and October 3–6 at 8:00 p.m. on the Waller Hall Mainstage. There will be a Sunday matinee September 30, at 2:00 p.m.

Hay Fever, set in England, actually has American roots. Noel Coward penned the comedy in just three days after having spent a weekend at the Connecticut home of Broadway actress Lorette Taylor and claimed to have basically written down what went on during his visit.

In his play, Miss Taylor becomes Judith Bliss, a famous English actress recently, and unhappily, retired from the London stage. She and her two grown children, Simon and Sorel, and her writer husband, David, have retreated to their summer house. One Friday afternoon, they find to their chagrin they have each invited a guest for the weekend. As the four guests arrive, the family dynamic spins out of control, and the guests are treated to two days of uninhibited nonsense and a fair amount of disregard.

This production is a special tribute performance to the career of longtime IUP theater professor and professional actor Barb Blackledge. Blackledge, who retired from the department after thirty-one years of service in December of 2012, plays the lead role of Judith Bliss.

Blackledge shares the stage with several of her former students. “It’s not only a fitting tribute to a master teacher, it’s also a fantastic opportunity for our students to learn the art and craft of acting,” says Brian Jones, theater and dance department chairperson.

Blackledge will be joined by two notable guest professionals with longstanding IUP ties. Retired Indiana High School drama teacher David Tabish will play Judith’s novelist husband, David. Also a professional actor, Tabish has a long list of impressive acting and directing credits.

Directing the production is David Zarko, who directed many Summer Theater-by-the-Grove productions. In the world of professional theater, Zarko has become especially known for writing and directing comedy.

Zarko explained that Hay Fever “is not an easy play to pull off. The comedy is so convoluted and outrageous, much more so than what American actors are used to. But this cast has risen to the challenge, and I think audiences will find the result lots of very good fun.”

“There is unusual depth to the characters in Hay Fever” says Zarko, “but at heart, it's just a rollickingly good time.”

Tickets for Hay Fever are available in advanced online at IUPTickets.com, by calling 724-357-1313, or at the Hadley Union Building, located on Pratt Drive of the IUP campus. Seats remaining will be sold at the door starting 45 minutes before each performance.

Tickets are priced at $14 for regular admission, $12 for senior citizens and groups of 15 or more, and $8 with an I-Card.

For more information, contact the Lively Arts at 724-357-2547 or e-mail us at lively-arts@iup.edu.

Theater-by-the-Grove is produced by the Department of Theater and Dance and the College of Fine Arts. It is funded, in part, by the IUP Student Cooperative Association.

Pictured above are David Tabish and Barbara Blackledge.

Led by Ryan Beeken, the IUP Chorus and Chorale will present “A Chorale Collage,” featuring music from around the world that ranges from early Hebrew polyphony to 19th-century chamber music. This performance takes place on Sunday, October 14, 2012, at 3:00 p.m. in Gorell Recital Hall. General admission ticket prices are $9 regular, $8 senior or group discount, and $6 with an I-Card.

The IUP Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Stanley Chepaitis, will perform on Thursday, October 18, at 8:00 p.m. in Gorell Recital Hall. General admission tickets prices are $7 regular, $6 senior or group discount, and $4 with an I-Card.

Directed by Holly Boda-Sutton, A Whirlwind to Oz, IUP Dance Theater's unique account of what really happened on Dorothy's journey, will be presented in the Zink Hall Dance Studio on October 19 and 20 at 7:00 p.m. and on October 21 at 2:00 p.m. General admission ticket prices are $14 regular, $12 senior or group discount, and $8 with an I-Card.

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Heading the list of cameo appearances this Sunday, September 23, will be the new IUP president, Michael Driscoll, as the Goatherd and IUP’s first lady, Becky Driscoll, as the “Woman in the Pink Dress.” Joining them will be Michael Hood, dean of the College of Fine Arts, as Captain Von Trapp.

Maria and the children will appear during several of the movie’s scenes in the guise of local young actors Maddie Jones, Quentin Davis, Maeve Moris, Alex Kim, Kristina Andrei, Sydney Shearer, Grace Smith, Sarah Pistole, and Jennifer Gandolfi (in rehearsal as pictured below). These students were members of the 2012 Footlight Players, IUP’s Summer Youth Theater Program, and performed in their production of Sound of Music in July.

Community members representing the nuns from the Abbey, with costumes provided by the Costume Shop in Indiana, will be Maggie Babco, Emily Briggs, Don Lopresti, Bonnie Dunlap, Eric Smith, and Jerod Alltop.

Audience members will also be able to purchase popcorn and bottled water prior to the performance and during intermission.

As the opening act of the 2012–2013 Lively Arts Ovations! series, SingAlong Sound of Music will be presented Sunday at 2:00 p.m. in Fisher Auditorium of IUP’s Performing Arts Center. Tickets are on sale in advance at the Hadley Union Building, by calling 724-357-1313, or online at IUPTickets.com. Tickets remaining will be sold at the door starting at 1:00 p.m.

For more information, contact the Lively Arts at 724-357-ARTS (2787) or e-mail lively-arts@iup.edu.

The Ovations! series is funded, in part, by the IUP Student Cooperative Association and a large variety of business sponsorships, campus and local partners, and grants. Funding is also provided by individuals contributing through the Premiere Club.

Since its start in the United Kingdom in 1999, the SingAlong Sound of Music show has become a worldwide hit, with over 10,000 performances in nine countries. It's even filled the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles – three times!

Now, SingAlong Sound of Music brings its screening of this classic movie masterpiece to Indiana and will be hosted by San Diego-based actor, Stefanie Miller.

The afternoon begins with a live show in which Miller will lead the audience through a light-hearted vocal warm-up, judge the costume contest with the audience’s help, and award prizes for the best costumes. Miller will also give you suggestions on things to do during the movie as well as when to use the items in your “fun pack.”

While the audience watches this 1965 award-winning classic born out of the 1959 award-winning Broadway production, the music of Rodgers and Hammerstein -- and you, the audience -- will resound throughout Fisher Auditorium. To echo the words of ABC World News Tonight, “If you’ve always wanted to be a part of a musical, this is your chance!”

For those wishing to come in costume, a list of ideas is included on the Lively Arts’ web site. Ideas include anything from a nun, to a lonely goatherd, to a brown paper package tied up with string. Coupons are also available for 20 percent off a costume rental at Indiana’s Costume Shop by e-mailing lively-arts@iup.edu. Those wishing to rent a costume are encouraged to visit the Costume Shop early.

Tickets are available now online at IUPTickets.com or by visiting the Lively Arts. Tickets may also be purchased by calling 724-357-1313. Tickets remaining will be sold at the door starting at 1:00 p.m. on Sunday, September 23. For more information, call 724-357-2787 (ARTS).

Tickets are $23 regular admission, $18 discount admission for groups and senior citizens, and $12 for students and children.

This event is funded, in part, by the IUP Student Cooperative Association and a wide variety of area business sponsors. Funding is also provided by individuals contributing to the Premiere Club.

The IUP Music Department and Ovations! are pleased to present two upcoming performances. Tickets for both the annual Homecoming Concert and for Live at Birdland with Tommy Igoe are now available through the HUB Box Office, in person or by calling 724-357-1313.

Under the direction of Jack Stamp and Jason Worzbyt, the IUP Concert Band, Symphony Band, and Wind Ensemble will be featured in their annual Homecoming Concert on Sunday, October 7, 2012, at 3:00 p.m. in Fisher Auditorium. General admission ticket prices are $9 regular, $8 senior or group discount, and $6 with an I-Card.

From one of the world's top jazz clubs, Live at Birdland with Tommy Igoe will thrill audiences with new hits, old standards, and iconic jazz tunes. IUP’s own Jazz Ensemble will partner with the group for a few numbers. This Ovations! performance will take place on Tuesday, October 9, at 8:00 p.m. in Fisher Auditorium. Reserved seating ticket prices are $23 regular, $18 senior or group discount, and $12 with an I-Card.

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SingAlong Sound of Music, has become an international sensation that has gotten thousands to rediscover this family musical in a whole new way. It will be presented in Fisher Auditorium as the opening performance of the 2012–2013 Ovations! season presented by the Lively Arts at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, September 23, 2012.

After picking up some popcorn on sale in the lobby and as you enter the auditorium, you will be given a small free “goodie” bag. The event will begin at 2:00 p.m. when the movie’s host, Stefanie Miller, will tell you all about the props in your bag and when to use them. She will also invite costumed audiences members to join her on stage for a costume contest if they wish, after which special prizes will be awarded.

The film will soon begin, and, as Maria, a.k.a. Julie Andrews, begins to twirl over the mountain’s crest and onto the screen, the audience will join her in a rousing chorus of the title song. Helping the audience in singing along throughout the movie will be young cast members from this summer’s Footlight Players.

Do you have to come in costume? Absolutely not! Should you come in costume? That’s up to you. But to help you, the Lively Arts has put together a list of possibilities from do-it-yourself ideas to subtle twists on a theme. And, if you would like to rent a costume from the Costume Shop in Indiana, just e-mail us at lively-arts@iup.edu, and we will send you a coupon for 20 percent off your rental.

Take a look at all the possibilities, or suggest some of your own. But whether you come as a nun, a brown paper package tied up with string, or just yourself, you will have a great time singing or listening. So, gather up all your friends from your residence hall or office or church or club, bring the kids, and drag your family to SingAlong Sound of Music.

Mr. Martinez is this year’s guest as part of the First Commonwealth Bank Lecture Series. Also presented by Ideas and Issues, the lecture will be held on Thursday, September 27, 2012, at 8:00 p.m. in Fisher Auditorium. Tickets are free but required and are available in person at the HUB Box Office or by calling 724-357-1313.

Tickets are now available for the season’s first performances of the Ovations!, Theater-by-the-Grove, and Sound Choices series. All sales are through the HUB Box Office, in person, by phone at 724-357-1313, or online at IUP Tickets.

Ovations! will present SingAlong Sound of Music on Sunday, September 23, 2012, at 2:00 p.m. in Fisher Auditorium. Reserved seating ticket prices are $23 regular, $18 group and senior discount, or $12 with an I-Card. This family-friendly event takes the award-winning film of a Broadway hit to a different and fully participatory level. Come as yourself or dressed as your favorite character!

Set in a 1920’s English countryside, Theater-by-the-Grove presents Hay Fever, a popular tongue-in-cheek commentary on the changing social dynamics of modern living. Performed on the Waller Hall Mainstage, the play runs September 27–29 and October 3–6 at 8:00 p.m. and September 30 at 2:00 p.m. General admission ticket prices are $14 regular, $12 discount, and $8 with an I-Card.

Sound Choices proudly presents the Litton String Quartet on Tuesday, September 25, at 8:00 p.m. in Gorell Recital Hall. Featuring new and classic pieces, faculty members Stanley and Swanna Chepaitis (violins) and Linda Jennings (cello) will be joined by special guest Raul Faure (viola). General admission ticket prices are $9 regular, $8 discount, and $6 with an I-Card.

For further information on these or any other shows, please call or visit the Lively Arts.

“After many shows, I’d say, ‘They don't get any better than this.’ And then the next show was equally good!”

That’s Indiana resident Eleanor Gallati describing in our new video the excitement of seeing a year’s worth of Lively Arts performances as a subscriber.

Check it out, and you’ll hear students, community residents, and more Lively Arts fans as well as director Hank Knerr on all there is to experience about the Lively Arts at IUP.

Did you know Lively Arts encompasses productions of the departments of Theater and Dance, Music, and Art; the Ovations! touring performance series; the Issues and Ideas speaker series; exhibits of the University Museum and Kipp Gallery; the ArtsPath education series for IUP and high school students; and more?

In this video, students Tia Kordell and Allison Scurdato, Indiana County commissioner Rodney Ruddock, Indiana Area High School assistant principal Bob Rizzo, and community members Jim and Marcy Martin and Walter and Eleanor Gallati share their enthusiasm for the Lively Arts at IUP.

Stay tuned for upcoming videos on ArtsPath, Ovations!, supporting the arts, and other topics.

Winner of the Tony Awards “Triple Crown” for Best Musical, Best Score, and Best Book, Avenue Q will close this summer’s season for Keystone Repertory Theater. Performances will be held on the Waller Hall Mainstage, IUP Performing Arts Center, August 10–11, 2012, at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday, August 12, at 2:00 p.m.

Avenue Q is part puppet, part live action, and packed with heart. It tells the timeless story of a recent college graduate named Princeton who moves into a shabby New York apartment all the way out on Avenue Q. He soon discovers that the residents there are not quite what they seem. Princeton and his new-found friends struggle against real-world problems with uncertain outcomes.

This show contains language and situations to which some audience members may object and is not recommended for younger children.

Tickets are available up through 3:00 p.m. on Friday, August 10, at the Hadley Union Building box office. Tickets remaining will be be sold at the door starting 45 minutes before the performance. Seating is by general admission.

KRT is a student-directed program and is produced by Theater-by-the-Grove, a program of the IUP Department of Theater and Dance and the College of Fine Arts. It is funded, in part, by the IUP Student Cooperative Association.

For additional information, please contact the Department of Theater and Dance at 724-357-2965.

Keystone Repertory Theater presents the award-winning Broadway rock musical Next to Normal on July 27 and 28, 2012, at 8:00 p.m. and July 29 at 2:00 p.m. on the Waller Hall Mainstage, IUP Performing Arts Center.

This groundbreaking musical takes you on the emotional journey of a mother’s mental illness and her family’s struggle to keep their suburban world intact.

Nicholas Hrutkay directs. Hrutkay is a former IUP student who helmed past KRT productions of Bat Boy, Evil Dead, and Discovering Eden.

This show contains language and situations to which some audience members may object and is not recommended for younger children.

Tickets are available now at the HUB Box Office and will be sold at the door starting 45 minutes before the performance.

KRT is produced by Theater-by-the-Grove, a program of the IUP Department of Theater and Dance and College of Fine Arts. It is funded, in part, by the IUP Student Cooperative Association.

For additional information, please contact the Department of Theater and Dance at 724-357-2965.

The ordering process has been made simpler this year, while retaining the incredibly low ticket prices. There are now three choices, and subscribers get all of their tickets before the season starts and before single tickets go on sale to the general public. This also allows you to request additional tickets with your subscription at the time of your order. Premiere Club members at the $250 level or above will have their orders filled first, and will always receive priority seating privileges.

If you seek a broad exposure to the varied events featured this year, Lively Arts offers the Totally Everything package, which is available at regular, senior, and I-Card prices ranging from $191 to $389. One of the most popular packages for the past 20 years, this gives you a ticket for every event and at a savings of at least 10 percent off the single-ticket prices. Those choosing this package will be delighted by all 12 Ovations! events, along with the 10 other events presented by Theater-by-the-Grove, Dance Theater, Music Theater, and Sound Choices.

With prices ranging from $132 to $279 in regular, senior, and I-Card pricing, the All Ovations! package is for those interested in the touring artist performances. This subscription provides all the variety offered in the 12 Ovations! events, securing your reserved seats and saving at least 10 percent off the single-ticket prices.

Another highly popular choice for many years, the Flex Pak allows you to design your own subscription package by selecting at least eight events from any of the 22 offered this season. All events offer pricing at regular, senior, and I-Card levels and range from $6 to $35, depending on series.

Tickets will be printed and sent during the first week of September. If you need help with your order, call the Lively Arts office at 724-357-2787 (ARTS) or e-mail lively-arts@iup.edu. The 2012–2013 season brochure, order form, and subscription information can be found here: Subscription Information, 2012–2013 Brochure PDF, 2012–2013 Subscription Order Form PDF.

Journey from the English countryside to the shores of ancient Greece with Theater-by-the-Grove as it kicks off the 2012–2013 season with Hay Fever in September. This will be followed by a new play titled In Quietness in November. You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, a cooperative effort by Theater-by-the-Grove and IUP Music Theater, will be presented in March. The Greek classic Lysistrata will close the 2012–2013 theater season.

Dance Theater invites you to join them for a Whirlwind to Oz in October and will join with the IUP Percussion Ensemble in March of the highly popular An Evening of Dance and Percussion.

In addition to Charlie Brown, IUP Music Theater will present the fast-paced Gilbert and Gullivan operetta The Pirates of Penzance.

Sound Choices, the premier events from the Department of Music, will begin with the Litton String Quartet, IUP’s resident string ensemble. Bands in Review, with IUP’s own marching band and jazz ensemble, follows in November.

For the spring, in addition to Percussion and Dance, the Music Department will present An Opera Gala to end the season. This special event features IUP voice faculty members Mary Logan Hastings and Joseph Baunoch, with guest Richard Fracker of the Metropolitan Opera.

The University Museum will take you down memory lane with Through the Oak Grove: A History of IUP. This exhibit will feature memorabilia and history from IUP’s past.

In October, the University Museum Annual Gala, Stagedoor Canteen, dances into the Blue Room of Sutton Hall. Advance reservations are required.

November will bring the Paintings of Dick Morrill, with his colorful portraits and images of contemporary life. In Sisterhood: The Women’s Movement in Pittsburgh and Bridge Builders is an informative exhibit slated for February. The University Museum will conclude the year with the annual Emerging Artists: Graduate Exhibition, which will run from March until May.

Subscription packages are now available for the different ticketed series, including the Ovations! series featuring touring performing artists. For more information about the upcoming season, please contact the Lively Arts by calling 724-357-2787, or by e-mailing lively-arts@iup.edu.

Ms. Fleming captivates audiences the world over with her sumptuous voice, consummate artistry, and compelling stage presence. Known as “the people’s diva,” Renée Fleming has been sought after as a musical statesman on numerous distinguished occasions, including the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, and the televised We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial in 2009.

In an historic first, Ms. Fleming sang from the balcony of Buckingham Palace at the 2012 Diamond Jubilee Concert for HM Queen Elizabeth II. At the invitation of the Sultan of Oman, Ms. Fleming recently headlined a gala concert celebrating the grand opening of the new Royal Opera House in Muscat. In 2008, she became the first woman in the 125-year history of the Metropolitan Opera to solo headline an opening night gala.

Just this past season, she has performed at the Metropolitan Opera, the San Francisco Opera, Baden-Baden, the Paris Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, with the London Philharmonic, at Carnegie Hall, and in a nationally-televised concert on Live from Lincoln Center.

In addition to her three Grammy Awards, her numerous other accolades include the Fulbright Lifetime Achievement Medal (2011), Sweden’s Polar Prize (2008), the Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur from the French government (2005), honorary membership in the Royal Academy of Music (2003), and honorary degrees from the Eastman School of Music, Carnegie Mellon University, and the Juilliard School.

An advocate for literacy, Renée Fleming has been featured in promotional campaigns for the Association of American Publishers (Get Caught Reading) and the Magazine Publishers of America’s READ poster campaign for the American Library Association. Her book, The Inner Voice, was published by Viking Penguin in 2004 and released in paperback by Penguin the following year. An intimate account of her career and creative process, the book is also published in France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, and Russia.

In addition to her work on stage and in recordings, Renée Fleming has represented Rolex timepieces in print advertising since 2001. In 2008, she launched La Voce by Renée Fleming, a fragrance designed for her, with the proceeds benefiting the Metropolitan Opera. Master Chef Daniel Boulud created the dessert “La Diva Renée” (1999) in her honor, and she inspired the “Renée Fleming Iris” (2004), which has been replicated in porcelain by Boehm.

She has also hosted a wide variety of television and radio broadcasts, including the Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series for movie theaters and television, Live From Lincoln Center on PBS, and Renée Fleming: A YoungArts Masterclass for HBO.

Having been added to Mr. Blackwell’s best-dressed list, her concert gowns have been designed by Reem Acra, Gianfranco Ferré, John Galliano for Dior, Douglas Hannant, Christian Lacroix, Oscar de la Renta, Angel Sanchez, and Vivienne Westwood. She has appeared on The Martha Stewart Show, Spectacle: Elvis Costello with…, The View and Prairie Home Companion as “Renata Flambé,” among numerous other media outlets.

Ms. Fleming is currently a member of the board of trustees of the Carnegie Hall Corporation, the board of Sing for Hope, and the advisory board of the White Nights Foundation of America. In 2010, she was named the first ever Creative Consultant at Lyric Opera of Chicago. To learn more about Renée Fleming, please visit her website.

The Ovations! series is funded by a variety of sources, including the IUP Student Cooperative Association, area business sponsors, grants, and donations from individuals provided through the Lively Arts’ Premiere Club.

Photo Credit: DECCA/Andrew Eccles

José René Martinez was born on June 14, 1983, in Shreveport, La. At a young age, he and his mother moved to Arkansas, where they lived until he was 17. After moving to Georgia, he played strong safety on his high school football team, going on to the Georgia State Championships with his team. He dreamed of playing professional football, but his plan was derailed after a sports injury during his senior year.

After his high school graduation, Martinez enlisted in the U.S. Army, proud to serve a country that had already given him and his family so much. In September 2002, Martinez underwent basic and advanced training at Fort Benning, Ga., where he gained skills as an 11-B Infantryman. After reporting to Fort Campbell, Ky., in January 2003, he was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division.

In March 2003, he was deployed to Iraq. Then, less than a month into his deployment, Martinez was serving as a driver of a Humvee in Karbala when his left front tire hit a landmine. Three other soldiers were ejected from the burning vehicle, but Martinez was trapped inside, resulting in severe burns to more than 40 percent of his body. He spent nearly three years in recovery and underwent 33 different surgeries, including skin grafts and cosmetic surgery.

Since then, Martinez has become a highly sought-after motivational speaker, traveling the country to spread his message of resilience and optimism. He has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, New York Times, New York Daily News, and People Magazine. He has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show, 60 Minutes, The View, Inside Edition, and Good Morning America, along with additional appearances on major national and international news networks.

In October 2008, Martinez stepped into another role when he was cast as combat veteran Brot Monroe on ABC’s Emmy Award-winning daytime drama All My Children.

Then, in 2011, he was cast on ABC’s Dancing With the Stars. Partnered with Karina Smirnoff, they became the early favorites on their way to winning the Mirror Ball Trophy.

He and his girlfriend, Diana Gonzalez-Jones, welcomed a baby daughter, Lauryn Anabelle, in May 2012. Also in May, Martinez narrated the CNN documentary Voters in America: Vets Wanted. His book, Full of Heart: My Story of Survival, Strength, and Spirit, will be released in November.

The inaugural First Commonwealth Bank Endowed Lecture in October 2008 featured political commentators James Carville and Mary Matalin. The series continued in 2009 with Pulitzer Prize-winning author and investigative reporter Bob Woodward, followed in 2010 with Apollo commander Captain James Lovell Jr. The 2011 lecturers were outed CIA operations officer Valerie Plame Wilson and her husband, Ambassador Joseph Wilson.

The lecture is funded by the IUP Student Cooperative Association and First Commonwealth Bank. Tickets are free, but will be required. They will be available starting Tuesday, August 28.

The Lively Arts at IUP announced the majority of what it plans to present during the 2012–2013 Ovations! series season at a luncheon of retired IUP faculty and administrators held Tuesday, May 22, 2012, at the Rustic Lodge in Indiana. This will be the Ovations! series second season, coming off of a highly successful inaugural season that included touring Broadway shows, performers from around the globe, and classical ensembles. The series included Broadway legend Bernadette Peters as the finale event on May 4.

This next season will follow a similar format, which proved to be warmly embraced by the community, allowing for a much greater variety of performance types than had been offered previously.

The season includes two Broadway hits, a Broadway-related family event, contemporary dance, a string quartet, jazz, Latin folk, a play, and more.

In addition to the offerings detailed below, a “headliner” event is also planned for the Ovations! lineup. Details on that performer are still being finalized and will be announced as soon as all arrangements have been confirmed.

The season will kick off with the wildly hysterical SingAlong Sound of Music. A hit that started in Great Britain and spread quickly across the globe, this highly decorated film that started with a Broadway classic will have audience members singing along to the bouncing ball and enjoying a family afternoon of great fun.

That will be followed by one of the world’s leading jazz bands from one of the world’s most prestigious clubs, Birdland in New York. The Birdland Big Band will perform under the direction of percussion superstar Tommy Igoe.

Also featured during the fall months will be the hilariously entertaining Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain and the inspiring New Directions Veterans Choir, a previous finalist on America’s Got Talent.

Closing the semester lineup, and just in time for the holidays, will be the Broadway family hit show Shrek: The Musical. The ugliest ogre in all of fairy tale history comes to life on the Fisher stage December 10 at a special early curtain time of 7:00 p.m.

Coming to the stage in February is a theatrical version of the Jules Verne classic Around the World in 80 Days performed by the famed Walnut Street Theatre of Philadelphia. That is shortly followed by John Blake Jr.’s jazz quartet featuring a world premiere of Stanley Chepaitis’s jazz treatment of Vivaldi’s Violin Concerto.

In March, Ovations! will offer the Daedalus String Quartet, the first touring string quartet to perform at IUP in nearly a decade. And, in early April, Cimarron will travel from Colombia, South America, and perform traditional Latin folk music.

Also in April, the series will present the inspiring movement of the Nai Ni Chen Dance Company combined with the sounds of the Ahn Trio in a new stunningly beautiful and graceful new work titled Temptation of the Muses.

Rounding out the season will be the iconic musical Hair. This milestone award-winning musical hits all buttons across the political spectrum that touched our nation in the turbulent late 1960s. As an off-Broadway production, Broadway production, film, and Broadway revival with several national and international tours, Hair helped defined the rock musical and all musicals that followed. It is not recommended for the younger crowd.

In addition to the Ovations! series, the Lively Arts will also soon announce the season events presented by Theater-by-the-Grove, Music Theater, Sound Choices, Dance Theater, University Museum, Kipp Gallery, and Ideas and Issues.

A brochure detailing the season and each series, along with subscription order forms, will be sent in early July. Those donating to the Lively Arts through its Premiere Club will receive order forms by mid-June in advance of the brochure. Anyone joining the club at the $250 level or higher will receive first priority for seating.

For more information about the Lively Arts, call 724-357-2787 (ARTS), or e-mail lively-arts@iup.edu.

The Lively Arts is produced by the IUP College of Fine Arts and funded, in part, by the IUP Student Cooperative Association. Other funding is provided by a wide variety of local, state, regional, and national partners and donations made through the Premiere Club.

Keystone Repertory Theater, IUP’s summer Theater-by-the-Grove, will offer a charmingly quirky summer season this year. Originally scheduled to start May 18, the first production had to be cancelled. The season will now start on June 1, 2012.

These student-directed productions will be held in Waller Hall on both the Mainstage and Studio theaters of IUP’s Performing Arts Center.

The season will begin with The Goat or, Who Is Sylvia? by Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Albee—his most provocative, daring, and controversial play. When Martin, a successful architect who has just turned 50, confides to his best friend that he is in love with a goat, events are set in motion that will destroy his ideal life with his loving wife and gay teenage son.

Performances will be held June 1 and 2, at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday, June 3, at 2:00 p.m., also in the Studio Theater.

July brings Next to Normal. This award-winning smash hit musical is a heart-swelling and devastatingly painful dissection of a mother’s mental illness and her suburban family’s struggle to keep their world intact.

Performances will be held on the Waller Hall Mainstage July 27 and 28, at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday, July 29, at 2:00 p.m.

Closing out the KRT in August is the highly popular Broadway hit Avenue Q. A laugh-out-loud musical in high Muppet style, Avenue Q tells the story of a recent college graduate who moves into a shabby New York apartment all the way out on Avenue Q. He soon discovers that, although the residents seem nice, this is not your ordinary neighborhood, while the audience immediately recognizes this is not your ordinary musical.

This mutli-award-winning musical will be presented August 10 and 11 at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday, August 12, at 2:00 p.m. on the Waller Hall Mainstage.

All productions contain language and situations to which some audience members may object and are not appropriate for younger children.

Tickets will be available in advance at the Hadley Union Building, located on Pratt Drive of the IUP campus, approximately 10 days prior to the first show. Tickets will also be sold at the door starting 45 minutes before the performance. Tickets are $7 regular admission, $6 for senior citizens and groups of 15 or more, and $4 with a university I-Card.

For more information, please contact the Lively Arts at 724-357-ARTS (2787).

KRT is produced by Theater-by-the-Grove, a program of the IUP Department of Theater and Dance and College of Fine Arts. It is funded, in part, by the IUP Student Cooperative Association.

One of each title was presented on Monday, May 7, to two local animal shelters: the Indiana County Humane Society and Four Footed Friends. The books were given as a gift by Florence Lattimer Helwig of Indiana, originally from Punxsutawney. Mrs. Helwig was a cofounder of Four Footed Friends and has always been a strong supporter of both organizations.

An endowment created by Mrs. Helwig in her late husband’s name, Wilfred E. Helwig, regularly funds a distinguished artist performance held on the Indiana University of Pennsylvania campus. The endowment fund was responsible for the appearance of Peters, an award-winning Broadway living legend who made her debut on the Great White Way in 1967, going on to win numerous awards, including two Tony Awards.

All proceeds from the sale of Peters’ books go to he charity Broadway Barks, which Peters cofounded along with Mary Tyler Moore. The organization promotes the need to adopt shelter animals across the New York City area. Peters works to spreads the importance of responsible pet ownership, the importance of spaying and neutering pets, and the need for proper pet identification through her books, television appearances, and extensive touring.

Pictured in the back row are Four Footed Friends board President Stephen Osborne (left), and Manager Michael Gillespie. Front, from left, are Indiana County Humane Society board member Mary Ann Baran and Manager Lisa Wier with Mrs. Helwig.

As reported in Playbill.com on April 30, 2012, the Isabelle Stevenson Award recognizes an ”individual from the theater community who has made a substantial contribution of volunteered time and effort on behalf of one or more humanitarian, social service, or charitable organizations, regardless of whether such organizations relate to the theater.”

Peters, along with Mary Tyler Moore, founded Broadway Barks as a program to promote the adoption of shelter animals. Peters has also written two children’s books to benefit the charity: Broadway Barks and Stella is a Star. Additionally, Peters works with Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, Standing Tall, and Actors Fund of America.

Throughout her illustrious career, Peters has dazzled audiences and critics the world over. In addition to her 2012 Tony nomination, Peters has been honored with seven previous Tony Award nominations. She has received Tony Awards for her leading roles in Song and Dance and Annie Get Your Gun, a Golden Globe, two Grammy Awards, and three Emmy nominations. She also has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Prior to the highly successful run of Stephen Sondheim’s Broadway revival of Follies, Peters was seen in Sondheim’s A Little Night Music. Other Broadway appearances include Gypsy, Annie Get Your Gun, Sunday in the Park with George, On the Town, Into the Woods, and many more since her 1967 Broadway debut.

Her long list of movie credits includes Pennies from Heaven, The Jerk, The Longest Yard, and Annie, with television appearances ranging from Ugly Betty to Grey’s Anatomy to the recent NBC-TV series Smash, among others.

The Bernadette Peters performance, which includes a 28-piece orchestra, will begin at 8:00 p.m. on Friday, May 4, in Fisher Auditorium of the IUP Performing Arts Center. Tickets are available in advance online at IUPTickets.com, by calling 724-357-1313, or at the Hadley Union Building on the IUP campus. If seats remain, tickets will be available at the door starting at 7:00 p.m. on Friday.

The concert serves as the finale of the Ovations! series inaugural season. It is presented by the Lively Arts at IUP and the College of Fine Arts. The appearance of Bernadette Peters at IUP is funded by the Helwig Distinguished Artist Endowment.

For more information, please contact the Lively Arts at 724-357-2787 or e-mail lively-arts@iup.edu.

For the upcoming concert by Broadway legend, actress, and singer Bernadette Peters, the Lively Arts at IUP will be providing most of the musicians and in much greater numbers. Under the direction of Peters’ conductor, Marvin Laird, and with the assistance of drummer Cubby O’Brien, IUP will provide 28 musicians that will perform with the two-time Tony Award winner.

The concert, which serves as the finale to the Lively Arts’ Ovations! series inaugural season, will be performed on Friday, May 4, 2012, in IUP’s Fisher Auditorium.

The concert will be filled with songs from Peters’ vast repertoire she has built since her 1967 Broadway debut. The ensemble, dubbed the IUP Studio Orchestra, is being assembled by IUP trumpet professor Kevin Eisensmith. The musicians have been provided with the music in advance and will rehearse with Laird for several hours prior to the concert.

IUP students performing with the orchestra include Michael Wertz (trumpet), Ryan Howell (horn), George Joyce and Matthew Morse (trombone), Nicole Gillotti and Annie Ursu (violin), Corey Shawley (viola), and Nathaniel Mack (guitar).

IUP faculty and staff performing include Keith Young, Jason Worzbyt, and Stephanie Caulder (reed), Kevin Eisensmith and David Ferguson (trumpet), Jack Scandrett (horn), Christian Dickinson (trombone), Stanley Chepaitis and Kim Weiner (violin), Linda Jennings (cello), Nathan Santos (bass), Michael Kingan (percussion), Lucy Scandrett (harp), and Peter Dugas (piano).

Other area professional musicians performing in the ensemble include Dan Heasley and Raymond DeFade (reed), Dena Miller and Crystal Lennartz (violin), Matthew Pickart (viola), and Mary Amrhein-May (cello).

Tickets for the May 4 concert are available online at IUPTickets.com, by calling 724-357-1313, or at the Hadley Union Building. Any seats remaining will be sold at the door starting at 7:00 p.m. the night of the concert.

The concert is funded by the Helwig Distinguished Artist Endowment and additional funding from the Helwig family.

When on the road, a ticket to a Peters concert can easily reach over $50 and usually higher per ticket. However, with support of the Student Cooperative Association and a variety of sponsors and donors, IUP students will only need to pay between $15 and $18 a seat.

Throughout her illustrious career, award-winning actor Bernadette Peters has dazzled audiences and critics the world over. She has been honored with two Tony Awards, a Golden Globe, two Grammy Awards, three Emmy nominations, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Peters recently appeared in the Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Follies and was recently seen on the new NBC television series Smash.

Other Broadway work includes Gypsy, Annie Get Your Gun, Sunday in the Park with George, On the Town, Into the Woods, and many more. She has recorded six solo albums in addition to numerous original Broadway cast recordings.

Her long list of movie credits includes Pennies from Heaven, The Jerk, The Longest Yard, and Annie, among others, with television appearances ranging, in addition to Smash, from Ugly Betty to Grey’s Anatomy to Evening at the Pops.

Tickets for the concert are available online at IUPTickets.com (I-Card holders should click on “Login to your URSA account"), over the phone by calling 724-357-1313, or in person at the Hadley Union Building Box Office.

The appearance of Bernadette Peters is presented as part of the Lively Arts’ inaugural season of the Ovations! series and is produced through the IUP College of Fine Arts.

Triptych: Three Ways, Three Words will be performed by the IUP Dance Theater April 27 and 28, 2012, at 7:00 p.m. and Sunday, April 29, at 2:00 p.m. Based on original poetry and music, the performances will beheld in Zink Hall Dance Theater. Admission is free.

Triptych is based on original work of poet Rosaly DeMaios Roffman, retired IUP professor, and composer David Berlin. The three original suites of this work reflect our world through three different perspectives using words, music, and movement. The production is directed by dance professor Holly Boda-Sutton.

This intriguing production opens with the premier of “Boundaries,” which explores the connections that form between ourselves and the barriers that shape our world. According to Boda-Sutton, “Our boundaries can be defined as geographical, physical, cultural, societal, familial, personal, or emotional.”

The second work, “Coming Together,” is set in the international genre 60x60 format which creates a mosaic of text, movement, image, and sound within a framed grid.

Finally, “Furoshiki” is based on the concept of cultures exploring other cultures through their own perspective. The work unwraps the Japanese culture through a western perspective and shares these ideas through the unfolding of movement images. “Furoshiki” is produced with the assistance of Katsuko Shellhammer from the Japan-America Society of Pennsylvania.

In each suite of Tryptych, the IUP Dance Theater performers create architectural and metaphorical moving imagery to provide experiences for the audience which cannot be expressed through words.

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The Symphony Band, conducted by Jason Worzbyt, will perform the music of Vaclav Nelhybel, Percy Grainger, and Jack Stamp.

The Wind Ensemble, conducted by Jack Stamp, will perform the music of Wayne Oquin, Malcolm Arnold, David Gillingham, and Dudley Buck. Guest conductors for the concert will be graduate conducting associates Matthew Morse and Hsin-Yi Lee.

A second concert featuring the IUP Brass Ensemble and IUP Concert Band will be held on Sunday, April 29, 2012, at 3:00 p.m., also in Fisher Auditorium.

The Bass Ensembles will be conducted by Christian Dickinson with the Concert Band conducted by Stephanie Caulder and Jason Worzbyt.

Being performed are works by Ron Nelson, Eric Whitacre, Pittsburgh’s own Joseph Wilcox Jenkins, Reber Clark, and John Zdechlik.

Tickets for both concerts will be available at the door starting one hour before each performance.

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The program will go from Beatles to Bach, from Zelda themes to Star Wars, and from Ragtime to a chorale-based composition that pays homage to J.S. Bach. The three organists will perform music that is cast in genres from the 18th century based on tunes from the 20th and 21st centuries.

They will perform on Trinity Church’s three manual Rodgers organs.

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Clewell (left) will be joined by the IUP Chorale under the direction of Heather Zosel. Also assisting will be faculty member Linda Jennings, cello, and IUP student Maximillian Esmus, piano. Other guest musicians include faculty member Therese Wacker, flute, and guest cantorial soloist Rowna Sutin (below), who serves as the main cantor of Rodef Shalom Congregation in Pittsburgh. 

April 27, 2012, marks the 20th anniversary of the death of Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992). Messiaen’s music will be performed by Clewell, organ, and Wacker, flute. Sutin will sing several liturgical songs throughout the recital, and the IUP Chorale will perform several movements from the “Holocaust Cantata–Songs from the Camps” (1999) by Donald McCullough.

Esmus will also perform an organ duet with recent IUP graduate Randall Frye. Transcribed by Esmus, the duet is based on Eduard Tubin’s Symphony No. 3, Movement No. 1. In addition to the original organ transcription and Messiaen's oeuvre (for flute, piano and organ), other works are by Samuel Adler, Jehan Alain, and Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy.

Clewell has performed sections from this program at Newtown Presbyterian Church (Newtown, Pennsylvania) and First Lutheran Church (Johnstown, Pennsylvania). Clewell has been invited to participate in a solo recital series at the Washington National Cathedral, where she will perform parts of this same program on Sunday, January 27, 2013.

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The concert, under the direction of Marvin Laird, will include a 28-piece orchestra performing on the Fisher Auditorium stage, starting at 8:00 p.m. The event is one in a long line of performances funded through the Helwig Distinguished Artist Endowment since the fund was established in 1988.

Throughout her illustrious career, Bernadette Peters has dazzled audiences and critics with her performances on stage and television, in concert, and on recordings. One of Broadway’s most critically acclaimed performers, Peters has won numerous accolades, including two Tony Awards, a Golden Globe, two Grammy Awards, three Emmy nominations, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Peters received both the Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for her critically acclaimed performance in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Song and Dance. She earned her second Tony Award for her performance in Annie Get Your Gun. She also received Tony nominations for her memorable performances as Momma Rose in Sam Mendes’ critically-acclaimed revival of Gypsy; for The Goodbye Girl; Stephen Sondheim’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Sunday in the Park with George; the Jerry Herman/Gower Champion ode to the movies, Mack and Mabel; and the Leonard Bernstein/Comden and Green musical On the Town. In addition to these honors, Peters earned a Drama Desk nomination for her memorable portrayal of the Witch in Sondheim’s Into the Woods.

Most recently, she appeared on Broadway in Sondheim’s Follies, which premiered at the Kennedy Center and moved to Broadway in September 2011. Shortly after the New York run, she appeared in the role of Leigh on NBC-TV’s new series Smash. Prior to Follies, Peters also appeared as Desiree Armfeldt in the Broadway revival of Sondheim’s A Little Night Music.

Later this month, on May 24, Peters will receive the 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award from New Dramatists. Each year, New Dramatists salutes an individual “who has made an outstanding artistic contribution to the American theater,” according to press notes.

While Peters is best known for her work in the theater, her career also boasts an impressive list of television credits, including starring in Lifetime TV’s Living Proof and guest starring roles on ABC-TV’s Grey’s Anatomy and Ugly Betty. Peters has lit up the silver screen in 17 films throughout her distinguished career. She received a Golden Globe Award for her memorable performance in Pennies From Heaven. Among her film credits are The Jerk, The Longest Yard, Silent Movie, Annie, Pink Cadillac, Slaves of New York, Woody Allen’s Alice, Impromptu, It Runs in the Family, and the soon-to-be-released independent film Coming Up Roses.

Peters has recorded six solo albums, including the Grammy-nominated Bernadette Peters Loves Rodgers & Hammerstein, Sondheim, Etc: Bernadette Peters Live at Carnegie Hall, and I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight, in addition to numerous original Broadway cast recordings.

Peters devotes her time and talents to numerous events that benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Her “pet project,” Broadway Barks, was cofounded with Mary Tyler Moore and is an annual, star-studded dog and cat adoption event that benefits shelter animals throughout the New York City area.

Her two children’s books, Broadway Barks (NY Times bestseller) and Stella is a Star, feature original songs written and performed by Peters. All proceeds from the sale of these books benefits Broadway Barks.

Tickets, ranging in price from $15 to $35, are available in advance at the Hadley Union Building on the IUP campus. Tickets are also available online at IUPTickets.com or by calling the HUB Box Office at 724-357-1313. If any seats remain, they will be sold at the door starting at 7:00 p.m. the night of the performance.

Additional information is available by calling the Lively Arts at 724-35-2787 (ARTS) or e-mailing lively-arts@iup.edu.

Chalk-on-the-Walk has become an all-campus tradition involving hundreds of students and employees participating, and several hundred more viewing, the dozens of incredible entries on the walks of the Oak Grove throughout the day.

The contest has always served as a vehicle for students to express their political and social views through drawings across the Oak Grove. As we face a wide variety of dynamic local, national, and world issues, this year’s contest will again serve as a unique outlet of free expression. We encourage all students and student organizations to participate as a class, a group, an office, or an individual.

No matter what your involvement, we do hope everyone, including community members, will join us in the Oak Grove on Wednesday, April 25.

Creation of the drawings commences at 9:00 a.m. and continues through mid-afternoon. Prizes will be awarded around 5:00 p.m. In case of inclement weather, we will reschedule the event. Any changes will posted on the Lively Arts’ Facebook page, through Twitter, and with signs posted in the Oak Grove.

We are also seeking individuals, organizations, businesses, and offices who would like to contribute to the student awards, which usually total at least $3,000. If you are able to do this, please e-mail Hank Knerr at lively-arts@iup.edu. We will acknowledge your contribution during the contest, but will wait to collect those pledges until after the contest is held.

The Department of Theater and Dance and Theater-by-the-Grove at Indiana University of Pennsylvania will present a benefit titled Broadway Backwards on April 23, 2012, at 8:30 p.m. This student-directed project will benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. The performance will be presented on the Waller Hall Mainstage of the IUP Performing Arts Center.

Broadway Backwards will highlight an assorted variety show featuring acts from a vast selection of Broadway musicals such as Chicago, Hairspray, Jekyll and Hyde, Chess, The Full Monty, and many more. But this show adds a special twist. Broadway Backwards will turn the tables with men performing the women’s roles and women performing the men’s roles. It will be a crazy, gender-bending night, all for a good cause.

Broadway Cares is a program of Actors’ Equity Association, the professional union for stage actors and based in New York City. They have provided IUP with an assortment of Broadway memorabilia such as signed posters and playbills, various Broadway trinkets, and the ever-coveted Broadway Snow globe (you will have to attend to see for yourself). All of these items will be raffled off in a silent auction at the event with all proceeds going to Broadway Cares and their fund to fight AIDS.

In addition to the auction, there will be two sets of tickets as part of a raffle. The Department of Theater and Dance has donated two season tickets to the 2012-13 Theater-by-the-Grove season and the Lively Arts has donated two reserved seats to the May 4 Ovations! performance by Bernadette Peters.

Tickets for Broadway Backwards, at only $2 each, will be available at the door starting 45 minutes before the performance. Additional donations for Broadway Cares will also be appreciated.

The performance of Broadway Backwards contains language and situations to which some audience members may object.

For more information, contact The Lively Arts at 724-357-2547 or e-mail lively-arts@iup.edu.

Theater-by-the-Grove is produced by the Department of Theater and Dance and the College of Fine Arts.

The IUP Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of David Martynuik and produced by the Department of Music, will open its final concert of the semester with Philip Glass’ Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists and Orchestra. The concert will be performed on Tuesday, May 1, 2012, starting at 8:00 p.m. in Fisher Auditorium of IUP’s Performing Arts Center.

Written in 2000 on commission for a consortium of orchestras, including the St. Louis Symphony and Milwaukee Symphony, the concerto is a high-powered work that will feature IUP students Brett Landry and Ethan Markowski on timpani.

The featured soloist for the evening will be pianist Anastasia Antonacos performing Edvard Grieg’s monumental Piano Concerto in A Minor. Arguably Grieg’s most famous and most often performed work, the concerto is filled with lyric romanticism and Norwegian folk-song flavor.

Antonacos, a member of the IUP Music faculty, has given notable performances around the world as a solo recitalist and chamber musician. She has played at venues such as the Salle Cortot, Casa Orfeo, Holland’s Alkmaar Conservatory, and Alice Tully Hall. Antonacos won first place at the International Young Artist Music Competition in Bulgaria and holds prizes from the Capdepera International Piano Competition in Mallorca and the Indianapolis Matinee Musicale Competition.

Concluding the program, the orchestra will be joined by the IUP Chorale and University Chorus and vocal soloists Mary Logan Hastings and Joseph Baunoch. Together, they will perform Ralph Vaughn Williams’ epic cantata, Dona Nobis Pacem. Written during the mid-1930s as Europe teetered on the edge of a second world war, Vaughn Williams’ work is based on texts from Walt Whitman, John Bright, and the Bible.

With over 150 musicians performing the work and due to the extensive personnel demands of, it is rarely heard in performance.

Tickets are available in advance at the Hadley Union Building on campus. Tickets will also be sold at the door starting at 7:00 p.m. the night of the concert. Tickets are $7.00 regular admission, $6.00 for senior citizens, and $4 for students and children.

The Gentleman Dancing Master is a light-hearted comedy of manners set in Restoration England. The plot revolves around the machinations of an overprotective father who, adopting a Spanish sense of gravity and discipline, attempts to keep his daughter from any romantic entanglements except one arranged by him. His choice for her future husband is her cousin, an outrageous French fop.

The daughter, Hippolita, who has vastly different ideas of an ideal mate, manages to outwit both father and fiancée in a serious of hilarious encounters and, in doing so, strikes an early blow for female freedom.

The play is filled with colorful costumes from the period and inventive set design and period music that will also entertain theater-goers.

Director and fight choreographer Michael Hood notes that the play is filled with social and political satire, physical humor, witty language, and, of course, swordplay. “This is the first time I have been able to introduce my actors to small sword technique, and I believe that audiences will enjoy both the precision and the comic nature of the fights very much.”

Tickets for The Gentleman Dancing Master are available in advance at the Hadley Union Building, located on Pratt Drive of the IUP campus. Seats remaining will be sold at the door starting 45 minutes before each performance. Tickets may also be purchased online at IUPTickets.com or by calling 724-357-1313.

Tickets are priced at $14 for regular admission, $12 for senior citizens and groups of fifteen or more, and $8 with a university I-Card.

For more information, contact the Lively Arts at 724-357-2787 (ARTS) or e-mail lively-arts@iup.edu.

Theater-by-the-Grove is produced by the Department of Theater and Dance and the College of Fine Arts. It is funded, in part, by the IUP Student Cooperative Association.

Based on the 1974 Oscar-nominated smash hit film,Young Frankenstein is the wickedly inspired reimagining of the Mary Shelley classic from the comic genius of Mel Brooks. Unfolding in the forbidding Castle Frankenstein and the foggy moors of Transylvania Heights, the show’s raucous, sometimes bawdy, score includes “The Transylvania Mania,” “He Vas My Boyfriend,” and an unforgettable treatment of Irving Berlin’s “Puttin’ On the Ritz.”

The production team includes The Producers'  three-time Tony Award-winning set designer Robin Wagner; five-time Tony Award-winning costume designer William Ivey Long; and Tony Award-winning lighting designer Peter Kaczorowski. Jonathan Deans is the sound designer. Two other Producers alumni complete the music department: Tony Award-winning orchestrator Doug Besterman and musical director Patrick Brady.

Young Frankenstein was named Best Broadway Musical 2008 by the Outer Critics Circle Award and won five Broadway.com Audience Awards, including Favorite New Broadway Musical.

Clive Barnes of the New York Post called Young Frankenstein, “the Broadway musical at its dizziest, glitziest and funniest.” Jeffrey Lyons of WNBC-TV said “this riotously funny musical will knock you clear across 42nd Street,” and Roger Friedman of Fox News called it “utter genius.”

For every ticket sold to the IUP performance, Lively Arts will donate $1 to the Indiana High School Road to Fringe fund. This fund was set up to allow the high school’s theater program accept an invitation to perform this year at the world’s most prestigious performance festival held each August in Edinburgh, Scotland. The high school students will also serve as hosts of the Young Frankenstein performance.

For more information about tickets, contact the Lively Arts at (724) 357-2787 (ARTS) or lively-arts@iup.edu. Tickets can also be purchased by calling the Hadley Union Building at 724-357-1313 or at http://iuptickets.com/.

This is part of the Lively Arts' extensive outreach to area students through its ArtsPath program.

“Now that Indiana High School has been invited to the most prestigious performance festival in the world, we want to make sure they have the opportunity to go with the least personal financial burden possible,” said Hank Knerr, Lively Arts director. “When I was in high school and college, some of the most memorable, educational, and inspiring memories were those related to trips to concerts and plays, and in touring the U.S. and other countries."

The IHS Drama Program will serve as the official hosts for the Young Frankenstein performance. Several students will provide the audience with information about their project, and other students, parents, and teachers will staff an informational table in the Performing Arts Center grand lobby.

The hosts and other students from the high school are also being invited to join two members of theYoung Frankenstein company after the performance for an informal Q&A session.

Indiana High School students with Lively Arts staff member Sarah Stump (holding poster, right) at the UP Performing Arts Center

Juried by the internationally known artist Oliver Herring, the exhibition features a wide variety of work by current Master of Fine Arts students in the Department of Art. The exhibition will include a mixture of media ranging from ceramics and woodworking to jewelry and performance.

As an integral part of the jurying process, Herring conducted a series of individual studio visits with each of the graduate art students before selecting work for this year’s exhibition.

In describing his premise behind the works chosen, Herring stated, “I organized it around what I considered my anchors: the works that clearly express and distill something about the way we live, while also saying something particular or personal about that student’s life. I drew on connections between individual works and built on the strongest relationships.”

Pictured above are works by Laurie Barnes (installation), Bryce Hemington (cermics), and Liz Dabecco (painting).

Under the direction of David Martynuik, the IUP Symphony Orchestra will perform on Tuesday, May 1, 2012, at 8:00 p.m. in Fisher Auditorium, IUP Performing Arts Center.

General Admission tickets are now available at the HUB Box Office or by calling 724-357-1313. Prices are $7 regular, $6 discount, and $4 with an I-Card.

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As a contemporary quartet, Cordis is one of the first internationally acclaimed groups from the United States to feature an electronic cimbalom. Concert cimbalomist Richard Grimes, the found of the group, will be joined by Jeremy Harman, cello, Brian O’Neill, piano, and Andrew Beall, percussion.

Based in New York, one-of-a-kind instruments such as the electric mbira (thumb piano), melodica (key-flute), and the world’s longest playing cylinder-driven music box also have a way of weaving their way into any given performance. Each concert is unique, and there is no telling what new sounds the audience may experience.

Grimes developed a passion for the concert cimbalom after attending a performance in 1991 by renowned Hungarian cimbalomist Viktoria Herencsar. Grimes completed classical training in the United States and traveled to Hungary to study with Herencsar. He was a featured presenter at the 2001 Percussive Arts Society International Conference and recently completed a book detailing the divergent paths of the classical and gypsy concert cimbalom performance practices in 20th-century Hungary.

Time Out New York said, “(Cordis) makes a strong case for both sides of its musical personality, expanding the boundaries of chamber music.” NewMusicBox.com concurred: “Cordis offers an intriguing mix of instrumentation, and Grimes uses them well to show off his unique perspective on 21st century chamber music.”

Tickets for the event are available in advance online at IUPTickets.com, by calling the Hadley Union Building box office at 724-357-1313, or purchasing them at the Hadley Union Building on campus.

Reserved tickets are $20 for regular admission, $16 for senior citizens, and $10 for students and children. Any seats remaining will be available at the door starting at 7:15 p.m. the night of the concert.

For more information, contact the Lively Arts at 724-357-2787 (ARTS) or e-mail lively-arts@iup.edu.

The Lively Arts is produced by the College of Fine Arts and is funded, in part, by the IUP Student Cooperative Association in addition to a group of over forty local, regional, state, and national partners, including organizations, businesses, and institutions.

Broadway icon, film actress, humanitarian, and multi-award winner Bernadette Peters will perform as the Helwig Distinguished Artist on Friday, May 4, 2012. Tickets go on sale Monday, April 2.

Spend an Evening with Bernadette Peters on May 4 at 8:00 p.m. in Fisher Auditorium, IUP Performing Arts Center. Tickets are available beginning Monday, April 2, through the HUB Box Office or 724-357-1313. Reserved and zoned seating prices range from $15 to $35.

IUP Department of Music voice professor Joseph Baunoch will appear as the composer. In a script drawn from letters and historical events, he will discuss each composition and “compose it” as the quartet plays.

The quartet’s first violinist, Stanley Chepaitis, explains; “We wanted to find a way to draw our audience into the music, giving them the tools to better appreciate the true depth and beauty of these great works. We also wanted to portray a composer who had a wicked sense of humor and was involved in the concerns of everyday life, even as he was composing music that was universal and timeless.

"For us as string players, these quartets are a part of our lives and need no explanation. For the audience at large, we have tried to find a way to let them in on our love for the music, and let them have some fun with it.”

Tickets for the concert will be available at the door starting at 6:15 p.m.

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This collaboration between the IUP Dance Theater and the Chamber Winds Ensemble brings a unique and entertaining combination of sights and sounds to the the music of Gordon Jacob, Igor Stravinsky, and Malcolm Arnold. The event promises exceptional music made visual through whimsical and humorous spectacle.

With musical direction by Jack Stamp and directed by Holly Boda-Sutton, this production includes the choreography of guest artist Heather Taylor-Martin, along with Joan Van Dyke and Anna Ponak-Shively.

Taylor-Martin has danced with West Virginia Dance Company, the Kitchen Sink Dance Company of New York, Nadia Tarr, Attack Theatre, and the Pittsburgh Opera.

Tickets are available in advance at the Hadley Union Building, located on Pratt Drive of the IUP campus, and online at IUPTickets.com. Tickets will also be sold at the door starting one hour before the performance. Tickets are $14 regular admission, $12 for senior citizens and groups of 15 or more, and $8 with a university I-Card.

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The Department of Music at Indiana University of Pennsylvania will present the 12th annual IUP Jazz Festival. It will be offered Saturday and Sunday, April 14 and 15, 2012, and includes two concerts.

The festival will feature two performances in Fisher Auditorium. Saturday’s concert at 7:30 p.m. features the IUP Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Band with guest trombonist Wycliffe Gordon. Sunday’s concert, beginning at 2:00 p.m., features local students in an IUP High School Honors Jazz Band.

Gordon, a musical ambassador and interpreter of America’s music, has experienced an extraordinary career touring the world performing hard-swinging, straight-ahead jazz and receiving great acclaim from audiences and critics alike. In addition to a successful solo career, he tours regularly leading the Wycliffe Gordon Quartet, headlining at legendary jazz venues and performing arts centers throughout across the globe.

Gordon is a veteran member of the Wynton Marsalis Septet and Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and has been a featured guest artist on Billy Taylor’s “Jazz at the Kennedy Center” series. Gordon’s recordings are a model of consistency and inspiration, and his musical prowess has been captured on numerous recordings, including 13 solo CDs and seven co-leader CDs.

Tickets for Saturday’s concert may be purchased at the door starting one hour before the performance or in advance at the Hadley Union Buidling. Sunday’s concert is free.

The Lively Arts at IUP wants to know what you think about the performing and visual arts events it presents throughout the academic year.

From the taiko drumming of the Yamato Drummers of Japan to the Tibetan Monks, from Broadway shows to dance, from classical to Zydeco to Celtic to Jazz, from theater to musical comedy, the Lively Arts offers a wide range of events and activities.

As an incentive if you complete the entire survey, you will be entered into a drawing that will select one lucky winner to receive a $150 Apple gift certificate of you choice from either iTunes or the AppleStore.

The winner of the certificate along with the 2012–2013 Ovations! season lineup will be announced by mid-May 2012.

Take the IUP student survey now.

If you are not an IUP student, be sure to complete a community survey, which enters you in a drawing for two tickets for an event of your choice during the 2012–2013 Ovations! season.

The Lively Arts at IUP is the area’s premier presenter of arts events in the area and aims to set the standard for excellence by providing high-quality arts performances, exhibits, and services for students and the community.

To provide feedback for the Lively Arts, community audiences are being invited to complete an online survey. Any community members completing the survey will be eligible to win two vouchers good for tickets to an event of their choice in the 2012–2013 Ovations! season. The winner and season will be announced in mid-May 2012.

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If you are an IUP student, be sure to complete a special student survey, which enters you in a drawing for $150 Apple gift certificate.

Tickets for two April 2012 performances by the IUP Bands are now on sale through the HUB Box Office.

On Saturday, April 28, the IUP Wind Ensemble and Symphony Band will perform a variety of music at 7:30 p.m. in Fisher Auditorium. The following afternoon, Sunday, April 29, at 3:00 p.m., the IUP Brass Ensemble and Concert Band will also perform in Fisher Auditorium.

Ticket prices for both performances are $9 regular, $8 discount, and $6 with an I-Card. Tickets can be purchased now at the HUB Box Office or at the door prior to the event.

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American tap and jazz meet the dance and music traditions of India! The stars of India Jazz Suites will present an informational and entertaining mini-performance on Thursday, March 22, 2012, at 10:00 a.m. in Fisher Auditorium. Admission is free. This performance is open to any student, group, or class.

This is a cross-cultural, cross-generational, cross-discipline work. This performance is not the full India Jazz Suites production, but set up more as a lecture-demonstration event that will give attendees an overview of the style of the work, its origins, etc. There is also a study guide available, prepared by Dance Affiliates in Philadelphia.

Although the Friday night performance includes six musicians on stage, this matinee event will be with prerecorded music. Depending on the size of the audience, seating may be on the stage with the dancers.

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Tickets for each are now available through the HUB Box Office, in person or by calling 724-357-1313.

Under the direction of Kevin Eisensmith and Keith Young, with guest artist Wycliffe Gordon, the IUP Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Band will perform on Saturday, April 14, at 7:30 p.m. in Fisher Auditorium, IUP Performing Arts Center. General admission ticket prices are $7 regular, $6 discount, and $4 with an I-Card.

A delightfully silly Restoration comedy filled with sly wit, colorful language and unforgettable characters, The Gentleman Dancing Master is written by William Wycherley and directed by Dean Michael Hood.

Performances will take place on the Waller Hall Mainstage on April 19–21 and 25–28 at 8:00 p.m., and on April 22 at 2:00 p.m. General admission ticket prices are $14 regular, $12 discount, and $8 with an I-Card.

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The Carol Teti Memorial Organ Scholarship Committee at IUP is pleased to present one of the world's most passionate, gifted, and unique musicians, Hector Olivera. He will perform a free organ recital at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, April 20, 2012.

The performance will be held at at Graystone Presbyterian Church, located on Church Street in Indiana.

Olivera's interpretations of both classical and popular music have amazed and delighted audiences around the world and have received astounding reviews. In a performance on Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion, Keillor commented that Olivera “literally stopped the show.” In a solo concert in Atlanta where he was invited to perform in celebration of the Olympic games, the Atlanta Journal Constitution wrote, “Olivera swept the audience with absolute Olympic virtuosity, and that still doesn’t say it . . . . Hector Olivera is in a class by himself.”

Born in Buenos Aires, Olivera began playing the pipe organ at age three, was appointed organist of the Church of the Immaculate Conception at age five, and entered the Buenos Aires Conservatory at age six. By age nine, had composed a suite for oboe and string orchestra that was performed by the Buenos Aires Symphony Orchestra.

Upon entering the University of Buenos Aires at age 12, he continued his training in harmony, counterpoint, and, most importantly, improvisation, attaining a level necessary to serve as the senior improvisational accompanist for the Collegium Musicum in Buenos Aires. By age 18, he had performed over 300 concerts throughout Latin America, appearing frequently on Argentinean radio and television.

Moving to the United States in 1965 to study at the Juilliard School of Music on a scholarship, he launched his professional concert career three years later when he won the National Improvisation Contest sponsored by the American Guild of Organists (AGO).

Since that time, Olivera has performed solo concerts throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia, Australia, and Central and Latin America and as guest soloist with prominent symphony orchestras worldwide.

Solo performances in the past decade include the 2002 American Guild of Organists national convention, where his transcription of Stravinsky’s “Firebird” Suite spontaneously brought the audience to their feet. He return to the AGO convention in 2004, when his performance garnered four standing ovations in 45 minutes by over 2,200 attendees. In 2007, he was invited to perform a solo concert at the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris that was attended by an audience of 5,000.

This performance is in support of the Carol Teti Memorial Organ Scholarship Committee’s work in raising funds to award to deserving students studying organ at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Admision is free, but donations to the scholarship fund are gratefully accepted. If you would like to show support by attending the fund-raising dinner that precedes Maestro Olivera’s performance, please call 724-349-1996.

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Tickets range in price from $15 to $35 and can be purchased online at IUPTickets.com, by calling the Hadley Union Building Box Office at 724-357-1313, or by visiting the HUB.

Based on the Mel Brooks comic film masterpiece, the story follows young Dr. Frankenstein as he attempts to complete his grandfather’s work and bring a corpse to life.

Together with his endearing helper, Igor, his curvaceous lab assistant, Inga, and his self-involved, madcap fiancée, Elizabeth, Frankenstein succeeds, but not without scary and often hilarious complications. This wickedly inspired, sometimes bawdy musical provides the perfect addition to the Ovations! series’ inaugural season.

The performance will be held Thursday, March 29, 2012, at 8:00 p.m. in Fisher Auditorium of IUP’s Performing Arts Center.

Mnozil Brass was founded in 1992 at Josef Mnozil’s Vienna tavern, and has become so well-known in concert circles that the band now holds more than 120 concerts a year across the globe. Their other U.S. engagements this tour include the University of Kansas, Louisiana State University, and McNeese State University, also in Louisiana.

Mnozil is adeptly able to convince the audience that playing music is not just serious business. Moving from pop to classical to rock, the performance is filled with musical and comic wizardry. Imagine the energy of the Spike Jones Band, the humor of Victor Borge, and the parody of Weird Al Yankovic, and you have Mnozil.

The band faces every challenge head-on, proudly proclaiming, “No tone is too high for us, no lip is too hot, and no music is too inferior.”

The ensemble consists of seven members, including Thomas Gansch, Robert Rother, Roman Rindberger, Leonhard Paul, Gerhard Füssl, Zoltan Kiss, and Wilfried Brandstötter. Wherever these seven musicians enter the stage, audiences and critics alike meet them with wild enthusiasm.

The Salzburger Nachrichten wrote, “A terrific achievement in musical performance and acting…” The British Bandsman stated, “An ensemble with a difference. This ensemble entertains audiences with a superb blend of virtuoso musicianship, unusual concert items, and off-beat humor. If you want to know what to expect, expect the unexpected.”

The Niederösterreichische Nachrichten in southern Austria said, “These musicians are absolutely brilliant on their instruments, which you almost don’t realize because you’re laughing so hard. This is supreme and high-quality entertainment.”

Tickets for the event are available now online at IUPTickets.com, by calling the Hadley Union Building box office at 724-357-1313, or by purchasing them at the Hadley Union Building on campus. Reserved tickets are $23 for regular admission, $18 for senior citizens, and $12 for students and children. Any seats remaining will be available at the door starting at 7:00 p.m. the night of the concert.

The Lively Arts is produced by the College of Fine Arts and is funded, in part, by the IUP Student Cooperative Association in addition to a group of over forty local, regional, state, and national partners, including organizations, businesses, and institutions.

After having first met in 2004 while jamming at the American Dance Festival, child prodigies Das and Smith premiered their collaboration as India Jazz Suites the following year in San Francisco. Individually, Das and Smith are virtuosi in their separate arenas. But together, the innovative and talented common ground of footwork spans from breakneck speeds to slow, highly finessed maneuvers.

For India Jazz Suites, the pair of dancers will be joined by two live groups of musicians. One group will perform American Jazz while the other performs traditional music from India.

Smith, a native New Yorker, has made his mark as a performer, choreographer, and director of tap. Born to professional performing parents, Smith followed and out-stepped their footwork by being awarded an Emmy, an American Choreography Award, and numerous others. He has founded the tap company Anybody Can Get It, as well as the band JaJa Productions. He was also seen as a special guest on television’s So You Think You Can Dance and the Jerry Lewis Telethon for a tribute to Gregory Hines.

Das has become one of the most dynamic and far-reaching artists to emerge from modern India. He has made his mark by exploring the boundaries of Kathak technique and performance, which could be considered a style similar to American tap. Kathak is one of six major classical dances of India and is translated as “the art of storytelling.” Kathak dancers bring to life the great scriptures and epics of ancient India through dance, music, and mime.

Together the combination of Kathak and tap creates a dynamic conversation that uses rhythm, improvisation, and live music that results in a blast of incredible speed and power, grace and beauty, epic storytelling, and the pure joy of dance.

Tickets are available now at the Hadley Union Building by calling 724-35-1313. Tickets are also available online at IUPTickets.com. Tickets cost $23 for regular admission, $18 for senior citizens, and $12 for students and children. Seats remaining will be available at the door starting one hour before the performance.

In addition to the public performance, the dancers will be on hand for the showing of Upaj: Improvise. This film, to be shown on Wednesday, March 21, at 7:00 p.m. in Eberly Auditorium, shows the two dancers as they travel throughout India touring their collaboration. Admission is free and is presented by the Lively Arts’ Ideas and Issues series.

The Ovations! series is produced by the Lively Arts, a program of the IUP College of Fine Arts. Ovations! is funded by the IUP Student Cooperative Association and over forty campus, community, state, regional, and national partners.

Upaj: Improvise takes us behind the scenes to watch the birth of India Jazz Suites, a phenomenal East-meets-West dance collaboration featuring tap dancer Jason Samuels Smith and kathak master Pandit Chitresh Das. Both will be on hand for the film and answer questions during a post-film question-and-answer session.

Smith is an Emmy Award-winning rising tap star based in New York. Das exemplifies the elegance and mathematical precision of India’s classical dance form.

Shot backstage and on the pulsating streets of India and the United States, Upaj captures the exhilaration and exhaustion of the India Jazz Suites tour and the resolutions Das and Smith must make to complete their artistic journey together.

As the two join forces, an unlikely friendship develops that bridges continents, generations, cultures, and communities as well as the largely unknown histories of their respective art forms.

The film is by Hoku Uchiyama and produced by the Center for Asian American Media in association with IndiPendent Films. It premiered in March 2011 at the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival.

The duo, along with their musicians, will then present a live performance of Fast Feet: India Jazz Suites on Friday, May 23, at 8:00 p.m. in Fisher Auditorium.

Sound Choices and Dance Theater will present Wind Dances on Sunday, April 1, at 2:00 p.m. in Fisher Auditorium, Performing Arts Center. Directed by Jack Stamp and Holly Boda-Sutton, this is a performance of modern dance set to the music of IUP’s Chamber Winds Ensemble. General admission ticket prices are $14 regular, $12 discount, and $8 with an I-Card. Tickets can be purchased in person, by calling 724-357-1313, or online at IUP Tickets.com.

The Litton String Quartet, a music faculty concert, will feature several Beethoven works interspersed with commentary by Beethoven as portrayed by faculty member oseph Baunoch. This performance will take place on Sunday, April 1, at 7:00 p.m. in Gorell Recital Hall, second floor of Sutton Hall. General admission ticket prices are $9 regular, $8 discount, and $6 with an I-Card. Tickets can be purchased in person or by phone through the HUB Box Office.

Ovations! will present Cordis on Monday, April 9, at 8:00 p.m. in Gorell Recital Hall. This is a unique, contemporary chamber ensemble fusing an original combination of custom-made and traditional ethnic instruments to create their signature sound. Reserved seating ticket prices are $20 regular, $16 discount, and $10 with an I-Card. Tickets can be purchased in person, by calling 724-357-1313, or online at IUP Tickets.com.

Ovations! will present Fast Feet: India Jazz Suites on Friday, March 23, and Mnozil Brass on Thursday, March 29, 2012. These performances will take place in Fisher Auditorium, Performing Arts Center, at 8:00 p.m.

Tickets are now on sale for both through the HUB Box Office: in person, online, or by calling 724-357-1313.

An explosive collaboration between two unparalleled dancers and their music, tap and Indian Khatak, Fast Feet: India Jazz Suites is a must for the entire family.

Amusing and enchanting, the Austrian brass septet Mnozil Brass entertains the audience with finely chiseled arrangements and charming original compositions.

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The group, originally hailing from northwest Ohio, is now based out of Philadelphia. Brothers, Wallace and Jason DePue will be joined by fellow musicians Mark Cosgrove, Don Liuzii, Michael Munford, and Kevin MacConnell. Each member contributes to the collective bluegrass experience in their own way.

The DePue Brothers have been quoted as playing the violin “effortlessly.” Wallace DePue serves as the assistant concertmaster for the Philly Pops and has served as co-concertmaster for two of John Williams’ “Star Wars” Orchestra tours. His voice has no limits as he sings from rock to bluegrass and even to a bit of yodeling.

Jason DePue is currently a member of the first violin section for the famed Philadelphia Orchestra, recently completing his eleventh season. He has also served as concertmaster of the New York String Seminar and the Curtis Symphony Orchestra.

Cosgrove has won the U.S. National Flat-picking Guitar Championship as well as the Doc Watson Guitar Championship.

Liuzzi has been the principal timpanist of the Philadelphia Orchestra for 22 years. His previous orchestral position was as a percussionist with the Pittsburgh Symphony.

Munford is known as one of the top and most creative banjoists of his generation, while MacConnell, bass, has performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Philly Pops, and the Mann Center Orchestra.

The program will be filled with original tunes, traditional melodies, and unique arrangements.

Tickets for the event are available now online at IUPTickets.com, by calling the Hadley Union Building box office at 724-357-1313, or purchasing them at the Hadley Union Building on campus. Reserved tickets are $23 for regular admission, $18 for senior citizens, and $12 for students and children. Any seats remaining will be available at the door starting at 7:15 p.m. the night of the concert.

The Lively Arts is produced by the College of Fine Arts and is funded, in part, by the IUP Student Cooperative Association in addition to a group of over forty local, regional, state, and national partners, including organizations, businesses, and institutions.

In addition to various sponsors, funders, and partners for the Ovations! series, funding for this project has also been provided by a grant from Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour.

The program includes IUP faculty members Mary Logan Hastings, soprano; Sarah Mantel, mezzo-soprano; and Joseph Baunoch, bass. They will be joined by Joshua Baum, tenor, and Christopher Thomas, baritone.

This concert celebrates the interweaving of new American sounds and words into the fabric of vocal literature. Focusing on the repertoire of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

The vocalists will be joined by pianists Henry Wong Doe and Anastasia Antonacos. They will perform music by Ricky Ian Gordon, Lori Laitman, Jake Heggie, and Libby Larsen.

Baum is a voice professor at Aurora University in Illinois and received his doctorate in vocal performance from Michigan State University. While at MSU, he won the Michigan State University Concerto Competition and the MSU-China Conservatory of Music (Beijing) Collaboration. Specializing in opera performance, art song literature, and vocal pedagogy, Baum imparts his knowledge to students through courses in opera scenes, applied study in voice, beginning voice, and music appreciation.

Thomas is the director of choral activities and an assistant professor of music at Rowan University in New Jersey. At Rowan, he conducts the Concert Choir and men’s chorus and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in choral conducting and choral literature. Thomas, who served last year as IUP’s director of choral studies, received doctoral and master’s degrees at the University of Arizona.

Hastings has had an extensive career in opera which has taken her from America to European houses such as the Nationaltheater Mannheim. She has been engaged as the coloratura soprano for the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Städtische Bühnen Frankfurt am Main, Staatstheater Stuttgart, Opera Voor Vlaanderen, Théâtre du Capitole, and Théâter Basel.

Mantel holds a doctorate in vocal performance from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. An active performer and champion of contemporary music, she has appeared throughout the United States in concert and recital, premiering song cycles by Judith Zaimont, Katherine Hoover, and Daniel Perlongo. Mantel is a founder and co-director of the Festival of Women Composers at IUP.

Baunoch trained as an apprentice artist with Toledo Opera and Dicapo Opera of New York City and has performed in over fifty different operas and over thirty principal opera roles at the professional and collegiate levels. Baunoch has also performed in several opera outreach programs across the country with the Metropolitan Opera Guild, Toledo Opera, Manhattan School of Music, Dicapo Opera, and DePaul University.

Tickets for the performance are available at the Hadley Union Building or online at IUPTickets.com. Tickets remaining will be sold at the door starting 45 minutes before the performance. Tickets are $9 regular admission, $8 for senior citizens, and $6 for students and children.

For more information about this concert, the Sound Choices series, and other events scheduled through the Lively Arts, call 724-357-2787 (ARTS) or e-mail lively-arts@iup.edu.

The Pittsburgh Symphony has presented a style of musical brilliance around the world since 1898. Under the direction of music director Manfred Honeck, the orchestra has deepened its reputation as one of the world’s top orchestras.

The Indiana engagement, under the baton of PSO resident conductor Lawrence Loh, will perform three works. The first will be “Le Tombeau de Couperin.” Four movements of the work, composed by Maurice Ravel, will be presented.

Next will be Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “Concerto in B-Flat Major for Bassoon and Orchestra.” The performance features PSO musician James Rodgers as soloist.

Closing the evening’s concert will be Tchaikovsky’s orchestral masterpiece, “Symphony No. 6,” also called “The Pathétique.” The work is often considered Tchaikovsky’s most celebrated and popular symphony.

“The Pathétique” is translated as meaning “passionate” or “emotional.” According to Tchaikovsky specialist David Brown, the symphony deals with the power of fate in life and death and was Tchaikovsky’s final work.

The composer conducted the first performance of the symphony nine days before his death. It received its second performance 21 days later at his memorial. The piece has been noted as weaving “a complex texturing of emotion—sorrow leavened with hope and happiness tinged with a foreboding of despair.”

Conductor Loh has already made an impressive name for himself as one of the most exciting young talents on the classical music scene today. He has conducted other famed orchestras, including Korea’s Daejeon Philharmonic Orchestra, the Binghamton Philharmonic, the Yale Philharmonia, Omaha Area Youth Orchestra, Ottawa’s National Arts Centre Orchestra, and the Dallas Chamber Orchestra.

Tickets for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra performance are available now at the Hadley Union Building ticket office on the IUP campus or online at IUP Tickets.com. Remaining tickets can be purchased at the door beginning one hour prior to the performance. All tickets are by reserved seating.

Tickets are $23 for regular admission, $12 for students and children, and $18 for seniors (age 62 and older). For more information, call the Lively Arts at 724-357-2787 or e-mail lively-arts@iup.edu.

Chess moves beyond the quiet game of decorous strategy when its story meets the dynamic rock-scored musical. The main characters form a love triangle intensified by governmental propaganda once associated with American and Russian world chess championships. Hit songs include “I Know Him So Well,” “Pity the Child,” and “One Night in Bangkok.”

The lovers negotiate through a maze of political intrigue, personal responsibilities, and international conspiracies that unleash the potential beauty and treachery of the human heart.

The power of Chess is most evident in the explosive score, conceived by ABBA composers and creators of Mama Mia, Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus. For the lyrics, they teamed with Tim Rice, lyricist for Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, The Lion King, and many others.

Director Jeannie-Marie Brown says, “Our production explores the mastery of the score in the context of Anatoly, Florence, and Freddie battling to win a fractured game of love.” She invites you to “join the treacherous maze of contradictions, engage with the players—their politics, savagery, and fragility—and explore the bounds of the human heart.”

This musical contains subject matter that may not be appropriate for younger audiences.

Tickets for Chess are available at the Hadley Union Building, located on Pratt Drive of the IUP campus, and online at IUPTickets.com. Seats remaining will be sold at the door starting forty-five minutes before each performance.

Tickets are priced at $15 for regular admission, $13 for senior citizens and groups of fifteen or more, and $9 for I-Card holders and other students. Tickets may also be purchased with a credit card by calling the HUB Box Office at 724-357-1313.

For more information, contact the Lively Arts at 724-357-2547 or e-mail us at lively-arts@iup.edu.

Theater-by-the-Grove is produced by the Department of Theater and Dance. Music Theater is produced by the Department of Music. Both programs are housed in the IUP College of Fine Arts and funded, in part, by the IUP Student Cooperative Association.

The Symphony Band will be giving the Pennsylvaina premiere of Bruce Yurko’s “After Sunset” as well as the Pennsylvania premiere of a recently discovered work of Clifton Williams entitled “Dramatic Variations.” The Wind Ensemble will give the world premiere of Pittsburgh composer Nancy Galbraith’s “Febris Ver” and the Pennsylvania premiere of Dan Welcher’s “Up River,” based upon the explorations of Lewis and Clark.

Individual ticket prices are $9 regular admission, $8 for senior citizens, and $6 for students and children. Tickets may be purchased at the door starting at 7:00 p.m.

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The IUP Department of Music will host the Eastern Division meeting of the College Band Directors Association on March 1–3, 2012, on the IUP campus. As part of the meeting, several free concerts will be peformed that are open to the general public.

The event, organized by Music Department chairperson Jack Stamp, will feature performances by eight collegiate bands, including groups from Cornell University, University of Massachusetts, Montclair, Buffalo State, University of Maryland, and Towson University. Also performing will be IUP's own Wind Ensemble.

The College Band Directors National Association began its existence as a committee of the Music Educators National Conference. The Committee on College and University Music was so dominated by band directors in the mid-1930s that it soon became known as the Committee on College and University Bands.

In the fall of 1938, that committee, under the leadership of William Revelli, met independently in Chicago. The group met again in December 1941 and formed the University and College Band Conductors Conference. The name of the organization was changed to the College Band Directors National Association in 1947.

A list of concerts follows, all presented in Fisher Auditorium of IUP's Performing Arts Center. All are free and open to the general public. Please contact the Music Department at 724-357-2390 if you need more information.

Thursday, March 1

• 8:00 p.m. - The University of Massachusetts Wind Ensemble

Friday, March 2

• 2:00 p.m. - Buffalo State College Wind Ensemble
• 4:00 p.m. - IUP Wind Ensemble
• 7:00 p.m. - Townson University Symphonic Band
• 8:30 p.m. - University of Maryland Wind Orchestra

Saturday, March 3

• 2:00 p.m. - Montclair State University Wind Ensemble
• 4:00 p.m. Hudson Valley Chamber Winds
• 7:30 p.m. - Cornell University Wind Ensemble

Part of the University Museum’s mission is to showcase fine art made in our own region by artists who exhibit their work nationally and internationally. To this end, the season opened with the retrospective of an artist, Paul Binai, who lives in Indiana and whose work has been shown in Europe, Asia, and across the United States.

With this upcoming exhibit, the season continues with current and recent works by IUP’s own and highly celebrated art faculty.

According to museum board president William Double, “The title ‘Multiversity’ reflects the diversity of our faculty artists’ creative voices as well as the media and techniques they employ to express them.”

Andrew Gillham, chair of the Department of Art and one of the artists whose works will be on display, stated we very much “look forward to the upcoming exhibition of faculty artwork and research. Some of the pieces are recently back from national or international exhibitions, while others are so new that they have not yet been exhibited anywhere else.”

Other participating artists, representing a wide cross section of media, include Richard Ciganko, Sean Derry, George Dubinsky, Ivan Fortushniak, Kyle Houser, Irene Kabala, Maura Keeney, Lynda LaRoche, Steve Loar, Marjorie Mambo, Fuyuko Matsubara, Alphonse Mattia, Martyna Matusiak, Stephanie McNabb, Brenda Mitchell, Susan Palmisano, Penny Rode, Robert Sweeney, and Kevin Turner.

There will be a free public opening on Saturday, February 11, from 6:00-8:30 p.m.

A series of presentations by several of the artists is being planned. Dates will be announced on the museum’s web calendar as plans are confirmed.

Admission to all University Museum exhibits and events are free. Hours are Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 2:00–6:30 p.m., Thursdays noon–7:30 p.m., and Saturdays noon–4:00 p.m.

Pictured, starting at the top, are works by Lynda LaRoche (metals), Ivan Fortushniak (painting), and Steven Loar (wood).

The group, based in southern Louisiana, will perform a mix of zydeco styles, traditional Creole and Cajun tunes, and original material. The music is characterized as a collection of folk and dance tunes often used in traditional celebrations such as festivals, milestone events, and Mardi Gras.

One of the most noted young talents to emerge in Cajun or Creole music in the past few years, Cedric Watson is a fiddler, vocalist, accordionist, and songwriter of seemingly unlimited potential.

Watson was an essential member of the Cajun upstarts—the Pine Leaf Boys—contributing a Creole slant that helped differentiate them from other Cajun bands and bring them to international attention. In 2008, his first solo CD was nominated for a Grammy.

He then left the PLB to form his own band, Bijou Creole, with whom he continues to explore the roots of Louisiana's Creole music. In 2009, his band’s first CD was again nominated for a Grammy.

Playing a mix of old-school zydeco a, his own material, and Creole traditional tunes, the polyrhythmic and syncopated sounds of Africa and the Caribbean are unmistakable.

Cedric has been making a name for himself as one of the few young Creoles in Louisiana interested in reviving the old Creole fiddling styles of Canray Fontenot and Bebe Carrier. He has also gained speedy recognition for his adept and dynamic style on his newer instrument, the accordion.

With soaring, soulful vocals, he is injecting a healthy dose of his own personality and ingenuity into the world of zydeco. He has played all across the United States as well as in Europe, Canada, Asia, and the Caribbean.

Throughout the evening in Gorell Recital Hall, Cedric Watson et Bijou Creole will sample the “joie de vivre” of the Cajun and Creole peoples through their music, a joy that is celebrated daily in the homes and communities of Southwest Louisiana through their love of food, family, and friends.

Tickets for the event are available now online at IUPTickets.com, by calling the Hadley Union Building box office at 724-357-1313, or purchasing them at the HUB. Reserved tickets are $23 for regular admission, $18 for senior citizens, and $12 for students and children. Any seats remaining will be available at the door starting at 7:15 p.m. the night of the concert.

The Lively Arts is produced by the College of Fine Arts and is funded, in part, by the IUP Student Cooperative Association in addition to a group of over forty local, regional, state, and national partners including organizations, businesses, and institutions.

Combining bluegrass with jazz, rock, blues, and classical, this is an audience-energizing group composed of violinist brothers and three of their talented friends.  Reserved ticket prices are $23 regular, $18 discount, $12 I-Card.

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The performance will take place at 8:00 p.m. on Monday, February 27, 2012 in Gorell Recital Hall.  Ticket prices are $9 Regular, $8 Discount, $6 I-Card, and can be purchased through the HUB Box Office.

As part of the extensive educational outreach provided through its ArtsPath programs, the Lively Arts will partner with the Indiana Arts Council in presenting a special lecture and demonstration performance by the award-winning India Jazz Suites. The event will take place at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, March 22, 2012, in Fisher Auditorium.

The program features the two principle dancers of India Jazz Suites, including the extraordinary India kathak dance master Pandit Chitresh Das and the Emmy-winning tap dance sensation Jason Samuels Smith.

The presentation of this special performance is supported in part by Dance Matters, a Dance Affiliates program funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Community and Economic Development.

The teachers and students attending will have learned about both dance forms by reviewing a study guide prepared specifically for this event by Dance Affiliates. This guide will prepare the students for all aspects of the presentation, with information on India Jazz Suites and its inception, both performers, India kathak and American tap dance, specifics on the program, and even performance etiquette.

Schools across ArtsPath’s five counties of Armstrong, Butler, Clarion, Indiana, and Jefferson have been invited. The performance is also open to any IUP students wishing to attend. Those attending will receive a free t-shirt provided by Indiana First Bank.

Interested teachers and administrators should contact Rebecca Slak, executive director of the Indiana Arts Council, at 724-465-2787 or indianaartscouncil@gmail.com.

In addition to this special performance, the Ideas and Issues series will present Upaj, a documentary about the creation of India Jazz Suites touring throughout India. They will also present two classes for campus and area students. These will be presented on Wednesday, March 21, at 7:00 p.m., and the dancers will be on hand to provide commentary on the film.

As the culminating event during their four-day visit, the duo will be joined by a jazz ensemble from New York and another music ensemble performing traditional music from India. Together, they will present the mesmerizing Fast Feet: India Jazz Suites. The performance is part of the Lively Arts’ Ovations! series and will be presented in Fisher Auditorium at 8:00 p.m. on Friday, March 23.

Tickets for two February 2012 performances by the IUP Bands are now on sale through the HUB Box Office.

On Saturday, February 18, the IUP Wind Ensemble and Symphony Band will perform a variety of music at 7:30 p.m. in Fisher Auditorium. The following afternoon, Sunday, February 19, at 3:00 p.m., the IUP Brass Ensemble and Concert Band will also perform in Fisher Auditorium.

Ticket prices for both performances are $9 regular/$8 discount/$6 I-Card, and can be purchased now at the HUB Box Office or at the door prior to the event.

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A rock-scored metaphor for rivalry, gamesmanship, and political maneuvering, the musical Chess will be performed on the Waller Hall Mainstage at 8:00 p.m. February 23–25 and February 29 through March 3, 2012. A matinee performance will be held on February 26 at 2:00 p.m.

A production of Theater-By-The-Grove and Music and Dance Theater, this performance is directed by Jeannie Brown and Sarah Mantel (Department of Music). Ticket prices are $15 regular/$13 discount/$9 I-Card and are available through the HUB Box Office, online at IUP Tickets, or by calling 724-357-1313.

Grammy-nominated artist and his Zydeco band, Cedric Watson et Bijou Creole, will perform at 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday, February 7, 2012, in Gorell Recital Hall. 

One of the world’s finest orchestras, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra returns to IUP on Wednesday, February 22, at 8:00 p.m. in Fisher Auditorium, IUP Performing Arts Center. 

Reserved seating ticket prices for both performances are: $23 regular/$18 discount/$12 I-Card and are available now through the HUB Box Office, online at IUP Tickets, or by calling 724-357-1313.

For the inaugural season of Ovations!, IUP’s premier series featuring touring performing artists, the Lively Arts at IUP is reporting a record number of programmatic partners. Forty-seven groups, organizations, and institutions are providing a variety of support for the season, including funding, educational planning, translation services, hospitality, and more.

Campus partners include seventeen different offices, organizations, and departments, several of which provided funding support, such as the Student Cooperative Association, African American Cultural Center, Office of International Education, Department of Religious Studies, and others. Funding from the campus partners totals $155,568.

The Lively Arts also has seen a significant increase in grant-supported performing groups and projects and received support from several external funders, including the National Endowment for the Arts, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour, and others.

Part of the external grant support received was through two separate presenting consortium grants. For these projects, the Lively Arts worked with other universities and organizations in the region to secure funding from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation.

The amount of external grant funding received for the current season totals $97,597.

Business partners for the season include Robindale Energies, Inc.; Verizon; Wilmoth Interests, Inc.; S&T Bank; Indiana Gazette; Renda Broadcasting; Delaney Automotive; the Co-op Store; and Sheetz. This support, including various in-kind services, is estimated at over $55,000.

In addition to the partners, over 140 individuals and businesses have contributed through program advertising or donations made through the Lively Arts’ Premiere Club.

With the support from these partners in addition to the ticket sales projections for performances being on target, the Lively Arts is expected to finish the season with a modest positive balance.

A full list of partners follows, with an asterisk (*) indicating that funding was provided.

Campus Partners

• African American Cultural Center*
• Asian Studies Club
• Asian Studies Committee
• Center for Student Life
• College of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Committee for the Study of Culture and Religion*
• Department of Religious Studies*
• Division of Student Affairs
• Eberly College of Business and Information Technology*
• India Student Organization
• IUP Libraries*
• Japanese Student Organization
• Liberal Studies Program*
• Office of International Education*
• Robert E. Cook Honors College
• Six O’Clock Series
• Student Cooperative Association*

Local, State, and Regional

• Dance Affiliates, Philadelphia*
• Indiana County Chamber of Commerce
• Indiana County Tourist Bureau
• Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation*
• National Council on the Arts*
• Pennsylvania Council on the Arts*
• Pennsylvania Rural Arts Alliance*
• Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour*

Arts-in-Education Partners

• Armstrong-Indiana Intermediate Unit
• Associated Artists of Butler County
• IUP College of Education and Education Technology
• Indiana Area School District
• Indiana Arts Council

Presenting Consortium (joint grants)

• Beckley Concert Association (Beckley, WV)
• Edinboro University
• Lafayette College (Easton, PA)
• Lehman College (CUNY)
• Mercyhurst College (Erie, PA)
• New Jersey Performing Arts Center
• Pennsylvania Presenters
• Shippensburg University
• Tug Valley Arts Council (Athens, WV)

Corporate and Business Partners

• Robindale Energy Services, Inc.*
• Verizon*
• S&T Bank
• Wilmoth Interests, Inc.*
• Indiana Gazette*
• Renda Broadcasting*
• Delaney Automotive*
• The Co-op Store*
• Sheetz*

The program, appropriate for all ages, also includes Ivers’ four-piece band, Immigrant Soul; a quartet of championship step dancers; and the Indiana area’s own gospel choir, the Voices of Joy.

Titled “the Jimi Hendrix of the violin" by the New York Times, Ivers is the daughter of Irish immigrants growing up in the culturally diverse neighborhood of the Bronx, New York. Taking to the fiddle at age nine, Ivers spent many summers in Ireland, where she was trained by Irish fiddler Martin Mulvihill.

After graduating magna cum laude in mathematics from Iona College and continuing her post-graduate work, Ivers found herself reverting back into her music. Competing and winning over thirty medals and nine All-Ireland fiddle championships, she stablished a touring production in 1999 to present the music that now encompasses Immigrant Soul.

In addition to performing for presidents and royalty worldwide, the London Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony at the Kennedy Center, and Boston Pops, she performed as an original musical star of Riverdance and with the Chieftains, Hall and Oates, Sting, Afrocelts, Patti Smith, Paula Cole, Al Di Meola, and Steve Gadd. She is a founding member of Cherish the Ladies and, as an ensemble performer, is a Grammy winner as well.

For “An Nollaig Christmas” to be performed at IUP, the program recalls the warm memories and joy of Christmas in Irish families. Ivers interweaves age-old Wren Day songs and beloved American carols for the holiday performance, including “Hark the Herald Angels Sing,” “Do You Hear What I Hear?,” and more.

Joining on four numbers will be core members of the area's highly popular gospel choir, Voices of Joy. They will be under the direction of Melvin Jenkins.

Providing traditional Irish step dancing will be four championship dancers from Burke Conroy School of Irish Dance of Pittsburgh.

Tickets for the event are available now online at IUP Tickets, by calling the Hadley Union Building box office at 724-357-1313, or purchasing them at the HUB. Tickets range in price from $25 to $30 depending on seating choice, with children, students, and senior citizens receiving reduced prices as low as $14. Any seats remaining will be available at the door starting at 7:00 p.m. the night of the concert.

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The performances will take place on the Waller Hall Mainstage of the IUP Performing Arts Center. Both operas will be sung in English.

Menotti, who was born in 1911 and died in 2007, brought the world of opera alive to modern audiences in a way equaled by few contemporary composers. His music combines artistic and musical innovation with an unfailing sense of drama and sympathy for the special qualities of the human voice.

The Old Maid and the Thief was Menotti’s second opera, commissioned by NBC for a radio performance in 1939. The opera is set in a typical American town, inspired by Menotti’s own boyhood home in West Chester, Pennsylvania. The production is centered around the appearance of a stranger in town that coincides with rumors spread by several characters about a notorious criminal in their midst.

Composed in 1946, The Telephone centers on society’s preoccupation with technology and its interference in relationships. In it, Ben tries urgently to say farewell to his girlfriend, who always seems to be on the telephone. Timeless in theme, it is one of Menotti’s shortest works, with a main cast of two.

The production is directed by Sarah Mantel with the orchestra under the direction of Stanley Chepaitis. Both are on the Music faculty at IUP. Of the two works, Mantel stated, “There is an extraordinary bond between the words and music in our operas and in the ability of the music to draw you into the diverse worlds” of both of these works.

Tickets for the production are available in advance at the Hadley Union Building or online now at IUP Tickets. Tickets remaining will be sold at the door start at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, December 1. Tickets are $15 regular admission, $13 for senior citizens, and $9 for students and children.

For more information on the performance, Music Theater series, or other events by the IUP College of Fine Arts, please call the Lively Arts at 724-357-2397, or e-mail us at lively-arts@iup.edu.

Music Theater is presented by the Department of Music and College of Fine Arts. It is funded, in part, by the IUP Student Cooperative Association.

The composition combines the forces of the entire Music Department, including the IUP Symphony Orchestra, Wind Ensemble, and members of the IUP Chorale and IUP Chorus. Michael Hood, dean of the College of Fine Arts, serves as narrator.

“Voces Candentes” (falling voices) represents the feelings of the tragedy of September 11, including the horror as well as the love. The work was written in commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the September 11 tragedy.

The librettist for the work is Ann Meek. Meek has published in Poetry, Kenyon Review, Yale Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Massachusetts Review, Seneca Review, Missouri Review (where she was awarded the Tom McAfee Discovery Prize), Water-Stone, Crazyhorse, and many others.

She is the recipient of an Academy of American Poetry prize, a Minnesota State Arts Board fellowship, the Minnesota Book Award, and the Yale Series of Younger Poets. She has twice been a finalist for the National Poetry Series.

Meek lives with her husband and daughter in Minneapolis, where she works as a freelance violinist and singer and is a professor of English at Normandale College in Minnesota.

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Das Collectif, a music and dance ensemble from the prestigious Orff Institute in Salzburg, Austria, will perform a dance concert titled “Stomping La Luna.” It will be presented on Tuesday, November 15, 2011, at 8:00 p.m. in Zink Hall Dance Theater. Admission is free.

The dance troupe will be in residence at IUP for three days leading up to the performance. Susan Wheatley, an IUP professor of Music and host of this guest artist residency, collaborated with the ensemble’s artistic director, Susanne Rebholz, during a recent sabbatical project. As part of the project, Wheatley transcribed historical dance pieces by Gunild Keetman found in the Orff Institute’s archives. Susanne Rebholz, choreographer, Irina Pauls, and the whole company will present master classes to IUP students on Monday, November 14, and Tuesday, November 15.

Das Collectif was founded in 2007 and has had debut performances in Diessen, Seekirchen, and the University Mozarteum in Salzburg. Rebholz, founder of the ensemble, is a dance professor at the Orff Institute. She is recognized as an international consultant in music and dance and has performed with dance companies in New York City and Europe. She is also a certified movement therapist in Salzburg where she works with patients that experience paralysis and loss of mobility as a result of trauma.

“Stomping La Luna,” which means, “Stomping on the Moon,” was inspired by composer Carl Orff’s opera The Moon, based on a Brothers Grimm fairy tale. Das Collectif’s performance of the piece was commissioned for the fiftieth anniversary celebration of the founding of the Orff Institute. The Institute is a premier university for music and dance educators where composer Carl Orff and his protégé, Gunild Keetman, developed the Orff-Schulwerk process for educating young musicians.

“Stomping La Luna” premiered in Salzburg this past summer and will receive its U.S. premiere in Pittsburgh at the American Orff-Schulwerk Association (AOSA) professional development conference in Pittsburgh prior to its IUP performance. The Velocity Percussion and Dance Ensemble, middle school students from Jeannette City School district, will also perform Wheatley’s sabbatical transcriptions of Gunild Keetman’s historic dances at the AOSA conference.

Das Collectif’s residency is funded, in part, by a grant from the Rural Arts Alliance, a partner of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.

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The combined forces are directed by Sarah Mantel and Mary Logan Hastings and conducted by Jack Stamp.

Musicals represented in the review include My Fair Lady, West Side Story, Fiddler on the Roof, South Pacific, and Showboat.

The first half of the concert features the Wind Ensemble in performances of the music of John Williams, W. A. Mozart, and Karel Husa. Featured soloist on the first half will be student vocalist Samantha Wood. The ensemble will also perform “Music for Prague 1968” by Pulitzer prize-winning composer Karel Husa. The work depicts the striving for freedom and the Russia invasion of Czechoslovakia.

Tickets are available in advance at the Hadley Union Building or may be purchased at the door starting at 7:00 p.m. Tickets are $9 regular admission, $8 for seniors citizens (62 and older), and $6 for students, children, and I-Card holders.

For more information, please contac the Lively Arts at 724-357-2787 (ARTS) or e-mail lively-arts@iup.edu.

Ticket prices range from $14 to $30, with zoned and reserved seating, and are available through the HUB Box Office, by calling 724-357-1313, or online at IUP Tickets.

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Directed by Sarah Mantel, with orchestra conducted by Stanley Chepaitis, IUP students will perform two one-act comic operas, sung in English and filled with expressive melody, comic fanfare, and drama.

Ticket prices are $15 regular/$13 discount/$9 with I-Card, and are available through the HUB Box Office or 724-357-1313.

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IUP Bands in Concert, a gala performance by the IUP Wind Ensemble, Symphony Band, and Concert Band, will take place on Saturday, December 10, 2011, at 8:00 p.m. in Fisher Auditorium.

Beginning Monday, November 7, tickets will be available at the HUB Ticket Office or by calling 724-357-1313. Ticket prices are $9 regular/$8 discount/$6 with I-Card.

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Outed CIA operations officer Valerie Plame Wilson and former U.S. diplomat Joseph Wilson, both subjects of the film Fair Game, will speak as this year’s First Commonwealth Endowed Lecture, presented by the Lively Arts as part of IUP’s Ideas and Issues speaker series.

Extensive resource materials are available on the Lively Arts website and include a variety of video clips about the couple, biographical information, links to both speakers’ books, and a trailer about Fair Game.

The lecture will be held on Monday, November 14, 2011, in Fisher Auditorium and will include a question and answer session.

Admission is free, but tickets are required and are available now at the Hadley Union Building. There is a limit of four tickets per person unless other arrangements are made through the Lively Arts.

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Using a translation by popular American playwright Lanford Wilson, Three Sisters skewers the self-delusion of people who spice up the banality of their daily lives. Set in a small town against the drama of clandestine affairs, the plot unfurls around unrequited love, family feuds, and a deadly duel. The play veers between tragedy and hilarity as it tells the story of three dissatisfied women who desperately long for their treasured past in the big city.

Director and theater professor Rick Kemp says that, although the play is over a hundred years old, Russian author Chekhov “was an acute observer of human behavior in all its absurdity. The characters he created are people you can recognize from your own life, and the situations he puts them in remind us of the complex tangles that we all encounter.”

Kemp also points out how the translation being used makes the dialogue fresh and witty: “Lanford Wilson’s translation embraces the tragic-comic shifts in the play, making them fresh, sincere, and accessible for a contemporary audience.”

Tickets for Three Sisters are available at the Hadley Union Building, located on Pratt Drive of the IUP campus. Seats remaining will be sold at the door starting forty-five minutes before each performance. Tickets are priced at $14 for regular admission, $12 for senior citizens and groups of fifteen or more, and $8 with a university I-Card. Tickets may also be purchased with a credit card by calling the HUB Box Office at 724-357-1313.

For more information, contact the Lively Arts at 724-357-2547, or e-mail us at lively-arts@iup.edu.

Theater-by-the-Grove is produced by the Department of Theater and Dance and the College of Fine Arts and is funded, in part, by the IUP Student Cooperative Association.

The weekend features performances by current students who make up the IUP Jazz Ensemble, under the direction of Professor Kevin Eisensmith '78, and IUP Jazz Band, under the direction of Professor Keith Young. The performances take place Saturday, November 5, at 7:30 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center's Fisher Auditorium. Tickets for this concert, $7.00 or $6.00 with I-Card, are available at the HUB ticket window and will be available one hour before the performance at the door.  

The concert features Don Aliquo, Jr., who attended IUP and is now on the faculty of Middle Tennessee State University. Aliquo has released five solo requordings. He has recently recorded and/or performed in concert with Gary Burton, Greg Osby, Rufus Reid, Pete Christlieb, Scott Robinson, Jeff Watts, and Marvin Stamm.

The weekend culminates with the Jazz Alumni Band concert, which will take place Sunday, November 6, at 2:00 p.m. in Fisher Auditorium. No tickets are required for admission. Gary Bird, retired professor, will return to conduct the band. Bird, who currently lives in Wisconsin, established the IUP Jazz Band--a second jazz performance group--in 1977 and directed it for ten years. He then served as director of the Jazz Ensemble for another ten years. The alumni concert is presented in memory of Daniel DiCicco, a member of IUP's Class of 1954 and who served on the music faculty for thirty three years. He died in 2009.

The alumni band includes alumni from the 1950s to the 2000s and two sets of father-son alumni musicians.

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Founded in 1993 by Masa Ogawa in Yamato-no-Kuni—the present day Nara Prefecture—the troupe was created in what is regarded as the birthplace of Japanese culture. After performing for a small festival at the Toichi shrine in Kashilhara-shi, the group received recognition from a local newspaper, which sparked invitations from every which way.

The young ensemble started with a few small performances and grew to its current demand, touring around the world with more than 150 shows. They have played to sold-out houses in major venues throughout Asia, Europe, and the Americas. To date, the master drummers of Yamato have grown from four to twelve to fifteen members, male and female.

The drummers of Yamato stay true to their motto: “Go anywhere if invited, and make the world a little more happy.” The heart-pounding spectacle of athleticism, precision, and exhilarating musical expertise has been experienced by well over one million people worldwide.

When in training, the day of a Yamato drummer starts with a ten-kilometer run, followed by weight training for the rest of the morning. The troupe then practices drumming together in the afternoon, and individual practice continues into the evening.

The group spends from six to ten months a year in foreign countries. When touring, the Yamato drummers say, “All we know is the theaters, especially the backstage areas and hotels. But more than 300,000 people from fifteen to twenty or more counties in a year came to see us. We continue touring because meeting people is the joy of it all.”

When performing, special moments are born when the sound created by Yamato resonates with the pulse of everybody present. Ripples of pulses softly and gently overlap. At that moment, they feel the energy for tomorrow being born. The energy created by this encounter in turn gives the musicians the energy that propels them on with their journey of creation and expression. From their home village of Asuka in Nara, Japan, and running throughout the world, Yamato continues drumming and seeking engagement with the people of the world.

Of their sell-out performance in London, the London Telegraph stated, “Simply breathtaking.”

Tickets are available now at the Hadley Union Building, by calling 724-35-1313, or online at IUP Tickets. Ticket prices range from $14 to $30, depending on seating

The Ovations! series is produced by the Lively Arts, a program of the IUP College of Fine Arts. Ovations! is funded by the IUP Student Cooperative Association and over forty campus, community, state, regional, and national partners.

Performed by the IUP Dance Theater, shows are slated for October 28 and 29 at 7:00 p.m. and a matinee on Sunday, October 30, at 2:00 p.m. Performances will be presented on the Zink Hall Dance Theater, located along Pratt Drive, adjacent to the Memorial Field House.

Through their powerful, poetic lyrics and melodies, the music of the Alan Parsons Project lends itself to interpretation of human emotions and responses. The IUP Dance Theater explores these emotions and responses through movement to give the audience a new visual perspective of the music’s meaning.

Choreographers Holly Boda-Sutton and Anna Ponak-Shively chose to reveal these human situations through the guiding actions of a puppeteer. The puppeteer creates and sets the various dance scenes, arranging the human puppets to begin each emotional or challenging situation.

Boda-Sutton stated, “Our definition of ‘puppeteer’ is one who operates, designs, and unfolds a puppet’s story. So we leave it up to the audience to decide if he is just a puppeteer manipulating his puppets, or is he something much greater than that.”

Tickets for The Alan Parsons Movement Project: The Human Situation are available at the Hadley Union Building, located on Pratt Drive of the IUP campus. Tickets may also be purchased with a credit card by calling the HUB Box Office at 724-357-1313 or online at IUP Tickets.

Seats remaining will be sold at the door starting forty-five minutes before each performance. Tickets are priced at $14 for regular admission, $12 for senior citizens and groups of fifteen or more, and $8 with a university I-Card.

For more information, contact the Lively Arts at 724-357-2878 (ARTS) or e-mail lively-arts@iup.edu.

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The monks of the Mystical Arts of Tibet return to Indiana for their third visit to the area and as part of their world tour. The tour is produced by actor Richard Gere and the Drepung Loseling monastery located in India and is supported by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

During the performance, monks will be performing traditional sacred temple music and dances in traditional vibrant silk brocade garb. Before each act, an announcer will give a general introduction and a brief explanation or the meaning and purpose of each selection. The pieces they perform are believed to conjure energies conducive to world healing.

Presented also as part of IUP’s Family Weekend celebrations, the performance is filled with enthralling music, colorful costumes, and captivating dances and singing. Instruments used include ten-foot-long trumpets, bells, gyaling horns, and cymbals. The multiphonic voices of the singers join together to create deep resonating chants and songs in which each person holds three notes simultaneously.

Along with their performances at universities and community venues across the globe, the monks of Drepung Loseling have shared the stage with Paul Simon, Michael Stipe, Natalie Merchant, Patti Smith, Edie Brickell, the Beastie Boys, Kitaro, and many others.

The Mystical Arts of Tibet has been featured in the Golden Globe-nominated soundtrack of the film Seven Years in Tibet, and performed with composer Phillip Glass at the premiere presentation of his Oscar-nominated score for Martin Scorsese's Kundun.

Tickets for the performance are available in advance at the Hadley Union Building and online at IUP Tickets. Tickets remaining will be sold at the door start at 7:15 p.m. prior to the concert. Tickets range from $12 to $23, and all seating is reserved.

Sand Mandala to Be Created Starting October 24

As part of their week-long visit, which begins on Monday, October 24, the monks will also create a spiritual sand mandala in the Ohio Room of the Hadley Union Building. They will begin with an opening ceremony at 12:30 on Monday and will continue to create the mandala, a grain of sand at a time, through Monday, October 31.

The group will also host a variety of informative sessions throughout the week for local students and community members. These sessions and viewing the mandala are free. A complete schedule is available on the website or by contacting the Lively Arts. A full schedule is available on the website.

For more information on the performance, activities included as part of the mandala creation, the Ovations! series, or other events by the IUP College of Fine Arts, please call Lively Arts at 724-357-2787 (ARTS) or e-mail lively-arts@iup.edu.

Winner of four 2008 Tony Awards and the 2008 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album, In the Heights tells the universal story of a vibrant community in New York’s Washington Heights neighborhood. It’s a community on the brink of change, full of hopes, dreams, and pressures. It is where the biggest struggles can be deciding which traditions you take with you and which ones you leave behind.

In addition to winning the 2008 Tony Award for Best Musical, Lin-Manuel Miranda, the show’s creator, won the Tony Award for Best Music and Lyrics, Andy Blankenbuehler won for Best Choreography, and Alex Lacamoire and Bill Sherman won for Best Orchestrations. The original cast recording won the 2008 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album.

With a book by Pulitzer Prize finalist and Tony Award nominee Quiara Alegría Hudes and conceived by Lin-Manuel Miranda, In the Heights is directed by award-winner and Tony Award nominee Thomas Kail. The music arrangements are by Alex Lacamoire and Bill Sherman.

In the Heights also features Tony-nominated scenic design by Anna Louizos, costumes by Paul Tazewell, lighting by Howell Binkley, and sound by Acme Sound Partners.

Tickets are available now at the Hadley Union Building, by calling 724-357-1313, and online at IUP Tickets. Ticket prices range from $15 to $35, with discounts for students, I-Card holders, and senior citizens sixty-two and older.

For more information about tickets and the production, call the Lively Arts at 724-357-2787 (ARTS) or e-mail lively-arts@iup.edu. Additional information, including video clips and outreach resources, is also available online.

The Lively Arts is a program of the College of Fine Arts at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and is funded by a wide variety of campus, regional, state, and national partners, including the IUP Student Cooperative Association.

This year’s festival features two guest artists, including Richard Murrow, freelance tubist and professor of tuba and euphonium at Texas Christian University, and Jason Ham, solo euphoniumist and member of the West Point Band.

After a success in presenting a “Tubaphonium Musical” in 2010, the IUP Department of Music will once again present a musical written, rehearsed, acted, and performed by the members of the IUP Tuba and Euphonium Studio.

All events are free. Donations will be accepted for the October 27 performance.

Schedule

Friday, October 14

• 8:00 p.m.: Gorell Recital Hall, Zach Collins, Faculty Tuba Recital

Saturday, October 15

• 3:00 p.m.: Cogswell Hall 121, Richard Murrow, Guest Tuba Master Class
• 8:00 p.m. - Gorell Recital Hall, Richard Murrow, Guest Tuba Recital

Tuesday, October 18

• 6:00 p.m.: Gorell Recital Hall, Student Showcase #1
• 8:00 p.m.: Gorell Recital Hall, Student Showcase #2

Thursday, October 20

• Guest Euphonium Recital - CANCELLED

Thursday, October 27

• 8:00 p.m.: Cogswell Hall 121, Tubaphonium Musical

For more information, visit Tubaphonium.

Ensembles performing include the IUP Wind Ensemble, resident faculty ensemble the Hoodlebug Brass, Opera and Music Theater Workshops, Dance Theater, Percussion Ensemble, Saxophone Ensemble, and the always-popular IUP Marching Band.

Crimson Pops will feature a variety of popular music ranging from Broadway show tunes to music by composer John Williams. Highlights include music from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific performed by the Wind Ensemble, Opera and Music Theater Workshops, and a performance on the Reschini Steinway piano by student Maximillian Esmus of George Gershwin’s “Piano Prelude.”

The IUP Wind Ensemble is under the direction of chair Jack Stamp. A premier group of the department includes the best of the IUP instrumental music program. Music Theater and Opera workshops are under the direction of Sarah Mantel and Mary Logan-Hastings.

The IUP Saxophone Ensemble, under the direction of Keith Young, will perform two pieces, including Charlie Parker’s “Cool Blues.” Dance Theater and the Percussion Ensemble will combine for an encore performance of their popular “Taiko,” first performed for last spring’s dance performance and directed by Holly-Boda Sutton and Michael Kingan.

The concert will end with a finale performance by the IUP Marching Band, under the direction of David Martynuik.

Tickets for the performance are available in advance at the Hadley Union Building or online now at IUP Tickets. Tickets remaining will be sold at the door starting at 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 19.

Tickets are $9 regular admission, $8 for senior citizens, and $6 for students and children. Seating is by general admission.

For more information on the concert, Sound Choices series, or other events by the IUP College of Fine Arts, please call Lively Arts at 724-357-2397, or e-mail us at lively-arts@iup.edu.

Providing a spectacle of athleticism, grace, and exhilarating music, Yamato will perform on Tuesday, November 8, 2011 at 8:00 p.m. in Fisher Auditorium.

Reserved and zoned seating, ticket prices range from $30 to $14, and are available through the HUB Box Office, 724-357-1313, or at IUP Tickets.

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Performance dates are November 9–12 and 15–17, 2011, at 8:00 p.m. and November 13 at 2:00 p.m. on the Waller Hall Mainstage.

Ticket prices are $14 regular/$12 discount/$8 with I-Card and are now available through the HUB Box Office or 724-357-1313.

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Under the direction of Kevin Eisensmith and Keith Young, the IUP Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Band will perform on Saturday, November 5, 2011, at 7:30 p.m. in Fisher Auditorium. Ticket prices are $7 regular/$6 discount/$4 with I-Card and are available at the HUB Ticket Office or 724-357-1313.

The IUP Wind Ensemble and Music Theater will appear together in concert on Saturday, November 12, 2011, at 8:00 p.m. in Fisher Auditorium. This show features a selection of favorites from the Broadway repertoire under the direction of Jack Stamp and Sarah Mantel.

IUP Bands in Concert, a gala performance by the IUP Symphony Band and Concert Band, will take place on Sunday, November 13, 2011, at 3:00 p.m. in Fisher Auditorium.

Ticket prices for the November 12 and 13 performances are $9 regular/$8 discount/$6 with I-Card and are available at the HUB Ticket Office or 724-357-1313.

The concert, which includes Roman Rabinovich as accompanist and guest artist David Martynuik, will begin at 8:00 p.m. in Gorell Recital Hall, located on the second floor of Sutton Hall.

Franch-Ballester, a native of Spain, began his musical studies at the age of nine. He is a graduate of the Joaquin Rodrigo Music Conservatory in Valencia in 2000 and the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he graduated in 2005.

His awards include first prize in the Cultural Council of Valencia for three consecutive years, the 2004 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, the 2004 Astral Artists National Auditon in Philadelphia, the Alexander Kasza-Kasser Concert Prize, and the Claire Tow Prize.

Franch-Ballaster continues to perform throughout Europe, Asia, and North America and regularly performs with the Astral Winds. He has been a part of several new commissions by composers such as Jake Heggie and continues to hold educational workshops and performances for aspiring musicians.

According to the New York Times, “He is a natural onstage... played with technical wizardry and tireless enthusiasm.” The American Symphony League Magazine stated “One of the year’s most prominent emerging soloists.”

From Israel, Rabinovich is also a multi-award-winning musician, including four additional prizes, at the twelfth Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition. He has also taken first first prizes at the Animato and the Arjil Piano Competitions in Paris as well as the Vendome Virtuosi prize.

The pair will perform works by Claude Debussy, Camille Saint-Saens, Francis Poulenc, and contemporary composer John Novacek.

Joining for a work by Felix Mendelssohn will be David Martynuik, clarinet. Martynuik is an assistant professor of Music and director of the IUP Marching Band.

Tickets for the performance are available in advance at the Hadley Union Building or online now. Tickets remaining will be sold at the door start at 7:15 p.m. prior to the concert. Tickets are $20 regular admission, $16 for senior citizens, and $10 for students and children, including I-Card holders.

For more information on the concert, the Ovations! series, or other events by the IUP College of Fine Arts, please call Lively Arts at 724-357-2397 or e-mail lively-arts@iup.edu. Information is also available at the Lively Arts website.

Two performances by IUP music ensembles taking place on Sunday, October 30, 2011, are now on sale at the HUB Ticket Office: the second performance by the Litton String Quartet, and the IUP Marching Band in “Band in Review.”

The Litton String Quartet will give their second performance of the year on Sunday, October 30, at 3:00 p.m. in Gorell Recital Hall.

Under the direction of David Martynuik, the IUP Marching Band will once again be featured in “Band in Review,” a special collection of moving, spirited, and highly energized music. This performance will take place on Sunday, October 30, at 7:00 p.m. in Fisher Auditorium.

Tickets for both performances are $9 regular/$8 discount/$6 with I-Card and are available at the HUB Ticket Office or 724-357-1313.

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Performances are slated for October 6–8 and 12–15 at 8:00 p.m., with a matinee on Sunday, October 9, at 2:00 p.m. Performances will be presented on the Waller Hall Mainstage of the IUP Performing Arts Center.

Lindsey’s Oyster is the newest play from award-winning Pittsburgh playwright Tammy Ryan and signals IUP’s inaugural commitment to the National Theatre Conference’s Initiative to Celebrate American Women Playwrights.

The story revolves around a teenage girl and her unintentional pregnancy from a nonconsensual event. Confronting her body as a battleground and the wrenching alienation that her situation entails, she awakens to a profound self-possession and authenticity.

Director Jason Chimonides states, “Lindsey’s Oyster is a play that compassionately explores a host of powerful contemporary issues and themes relevant to young people, young women in particular. It has been said of this generation, a generation that has in many ways grown up online, that the gap between today’s teens and their parents represents the largest since the advent of Rock n’ Roll.”

Chimonides, a member of the IUP theater faculty, goes on to explain, “In 2011, all of the same adolescent yearnings and dangers still exist, but communication technology has amplified their expression and created, in my view, a sometimes morally dissociated social norm. I hope this play will frankly and thoughtfully compel serious reflection on these themes, particularly among our students, and spark constructive ethical dialogue within our community.”

This play contains language and situations to which some audience members may object, and is not recommended for younger children.

Tickets for Lindsey’s Oyster are available now at the Hadley Union Building, located on Pratt Drive of the IUP campus. Tickets are also available online at IUP Tickets. Seats remaining will be sold at the door starting forty-five minutes before each performance. Tickets may also be purchased with a credit card by calling the HUB box office at 724-357-1313.

Tickets are priced at $14 for regular admission, $12 for senior citizens and groups of fifteen or more, and $8 with a university I-Card. For more information, contact the Lively Arts at 724-357-2547 or e-mail us at lively-arts@iup.edu.

Theater-by-the-Grove is produced by the Department of Theater and Dance and the College of Fine Arts. Theater-by-the-Grove is funded, in part, by the IUP Student Cooperative Association.

Collura received her B.F.A. degree from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1994 and her M.F.A degree from Yale University in 1996. She is the recipient of a 1997 Emerging Artist Award from the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, a 2005 John F. Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, and a 2010 MacDowell Colony Fellowship.

Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States, France, Italy, Belgium, Germany, and India. She was also a nominee for a United States Artists Fellowship and a Rolex Protégé Award.

Her work has been reviewed in the New York Times, Art Forum, Art in America, Art News, Sculpture Magazine, BOMB magazine, Beautiful Decay, Time Out New York, and several other publications.

In describing her work, Collura states, “Every degree of my sculptures strives to challenge a viewers’ circulation, encouraging them to move around the sculpture not because that is what they may understand to do cognitively in relation to art viewing, but because that is what they are propelled to do emotionally to become more connected to the gesture and narrative of the sculpture in front of them.

“My hope is that each angle of my work poses questions that a viewer can only answer by physically moving in the space that surrounds the sculpture, thus turning the viewer into a collaborator and coconspirator of meaning.”

Collura will be in Indiana to speak about her work on Wednesday, October 12, at 5:00 p.m. in room 118a of Sprowls Hall. The talk will be followed by a public reception.

The exhibit, talk, and reception are free. Weekly gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday from noon to 4:00 p.m.

For more information about this exhibit and other events scheduled by the IUP College of Fine Arts, contact the Lively Arts by calling 724-357-2787 (ARTS) or e-mail lively-arts@iup.edu.

The second Ovations! series event features an engaging performance for the entire family. Reserved seating ticket prices are $23 regular/$18 discount/$12 with I-Card and are now available through the HUB Ticket Office, 724-357-1313, or online at IUP Tickets.

Directed by Holly Boda-Sutton, IUP Dance Theater students will present this special performance on Friday, October 28, and Saturday, October 29 at 7:00 p.m., and on Sunday, October 30, at 2:00 p.m.

All shows are performed in the Zink Hall Dance Theater.

Ticket prices are $14 regular/$12 discount/$8 with I-Card and are now available through the HUB Ticket Office, 724-357-1313, or online at IUP Tickets.

The music performed will span nearly a century, from Ralph Vaughan Williams’ classic “An English Folksong Suite,” dating from 1924, to a recent composition by Punxsutawney native Jim Colonna entitled “Dancing Day.” A highlight of the concert will be a performance of Vincent Persichetti's Symphony No. 6, written in 1956 by the Philadelphia native. The concert will also include two classic marches by Zo Elliott and Karl King.

The ensembles are conducted by IUP music faculty members Stephanie Caulder, Jason Worzbyt, and Jack Stamp.

Tickets are available in advance at the Hadley Union Building ticket office in September and are $9 regular admission, $8 for seniors age sixty-two and older, and $6 for students, children, and I-card holders. Tickets will also be sold at the door starting at 2:00 p.m. the day of the concert.

For more information, please contact the Lively Arts at 724-357-2787 (ARTS) or e-mail lively-arts@iup.edu.

The quartet is named in honor of Robin Litton, an IUP alumnus who created an endowment to help fund the quartet. The ensemble includes Stanley Chepaitis and Swana Chepatis, violins; Raul Faure, viola; and Linda Jennings, cello. For this performance, they will be joined by Anastasia Antonacos, piano.

Antonacos, a member of the IUP piano faculty, will perform “Quintet for Piano and Strings,” written by Johannes Brahms in 1862. Among the most beloved and most performed works of chamber music, it manages to combine elements of the piano concerto and the symphony in an intimate and conversational style.

Antonacos received her doctorate in piano performance from Indiana University in Bloomington and is marking her second year at IUP. She has presented notable performances around the world as a solo recitalist and chamber musician. She has played in locations such as Greece, Russia, France, and Belgium, as well as various places throughout the U.S., including Washington, D.C.

The quartet will also perform Franz Joseph Haydn’s “Opus 76 No. 1.” Completed in 1797, the set is considered Haydn’s most ambitious chamber works. The first in the last complete set of six quartets from Haydn’s greatest compositional achievements, this piece includes hymn-like movements and a light and animated violin.

Also on the program is Stanley Chepaitis’ “Child’s Play.” A musical depiction of five children’s games, this piece was composed on commission from the Pennsylvania Music Teachers Association. It premiered at the State Conference in 1997 and subsequently won second prize in the Music Teacher’s National Association Composition contest.

Tickets for the performance are available at the Hadley Union Building or online now. Tickets remaining will be sold at the door starting at 2:15 p.m. on Sunday, September 25. Tickets are $9 regular admission, $8 for senior citizens, and $6 for students and children.

For more information about this concert, the Sound Choices series, and other events scheduled by the Lively Arts, call 724-357-2787 (ARTS) or e-mail lively-arts@iup.edu.

Intensity is an extension of the IUP Percussion Ensemble whose literature explores contemporary chamber music centered around percussion, often incorporating other instruments.

One of two special performers, Allen Otte, cofounded the Blackearth Percussion Group in 1972. Otte, one of Kingan's former teachers, is also the founder of Percussion Group Cincinnati. A large body of new and often experimental music has been created specifically for the group throughout its history, including special relationships with John Cage, Herbert Brun, John Luther Adams, and Qu Xiao-song.

Otte teaches percussion instruments, eurhythmics, composition, and various literature seminars, and coaches and conducts traditional and contemporary chamber music. He is a regular summer faculty member at Oberlin College, where he has also done a course in traditional and creative music for Javanese gamelan.

With and without the group, he has concertized, recorded, and taught throughout North America, Europe, and Asia, including solo concerts and guest presentations in Shanghai, Saarbrucken, Aukland, and at Tanglewood. As both percussionist and composer, he works occasionally with soprano Audrey Luna, poet Don Bogen, the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, and extensively in computer music with Mara Helmuth. He has also worked in Lucca, Italy, with opera director Malcolm Fraser creating experimental music theater pieces.

Bonnie Whiting Smith explores the flexible boundaries between music and other disciplines, focusing specifically on music for speaking percussionist. Current projects include a solo simultaneous realization of all of John Cage’s 45’ for a Speaker and 27’10.554” for a percussionist and work with red fish blue fish, the Seattle Percussion Collective, and percussionist Allen Otte.

A committed performer and educator, Smith spent three years with Tales and Scales, a quartet combining new music, dance, and theater for family audiences, giving over four hundred performances in twenty-five states and appearing with the Dallas, Oregon, Indianapolis, Buffalo, and Louisville orchestras.

Smith has performed extensively throughout the U.S. and worked internationally in Switzerland under the direction of Pierre Boulez, and in Canada, Panama, New Zealand, and Italy. She has premiered music by Jerome Kitzke, Randall Woolf, John Luther Adams, and Michael Pisaro, and worked with Frederic Rzewski, Steve Reich, and Philippe Manoury, and she champions the music of her peers.

Pianists Anastasia Antonacos, Henry Wong Doe, and Matthew Baumer will be joined by mezzo-soprano Jane Potter Baumer and bass Joseph Baunoch in a recital celebrating the two-hundredth anniversary of Franz Liszt's birth. This free performance will be presented Sunday, October 23, 2011, at 8:00 p.m. in Gorell Recital Hall, located on the second floor of John Sutton Hall.

IUP faculty member and music historian Matthew Baumer will accompany and discuss Liszt's remarkable life and music, which reached into so many areas of nineteenth-century culture.

Selections will include “Ricordanza” from the Transcendental Etudes; “The Fountains of the Villa d'Este,” a symphonic poem transcribed for two pianos; and Lieder on poems by Heine, Goethe, Hugo, and others.

Filled with high-energy rhythms and a deeply genuine storyline, Time magazine said the show “represents change on Broadway. It’s contemporary, heartfelt, and full of hope.”

Both reserved and zoned seating tickets are available through the HUB Ticket Office, 724-357-1313, or IUP Tickets. Ticket prices range from $15 to $35, with discounts available.

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Crimson Pops will feature performances by IUP Music Theater, Theater-by-the-Grove, Wind Ensemble, Percussion Ensemble, Dance Theater, the HoodleBug Brass, and the legendary IUP Marching Band. Ticket prices are $9 regular/$8 discount/$6 with I-Card and are now available through the HUB Ticket Office, 724-357-1313 or IUP Tickets.

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With a central focus on students and entertainment, IUP’s Lively Arts is presenting a season like no other, including the inaugural season of Ovations!, IUP’s new performing artist series.

As a special offer, all IUP students purchasing a subscription to any part of the Lively Arts various series may receive a free $5 gift card courtesy of Sheetz. A limited number are available, so don’t delay. Just go to the Lively Arts website or download the brochure and order form now. For more information, you can call 724-357-2787 (ARTS) or e-mail lively-arts@iup.edu.

Ovations! will lead an entertaining journey from Broadway to New Orleans; Philadelphia to Boston; the heritage of Japan to the traditions of India; and the cultures of Latin America to the hills of Ireland and the forests of Transylvania.

We will welcome this year’s Helwig Distinguished Artist Bernadette Peters, the breathtaking Yamato Drummers, Grammy-nominated Cedric Watson, the Broadway tours of In the Heights and Young Frankenstein, and much more.

In addition to Ovations!, the Lively Arts season offers productions, performances, and exhibits produced by departments within the College of Fine Arts. The exhibits are all free, with other series events offered at a faction of the price one would pay in any other town or city.

Henry Wong Doe, a member of the IUP piano faculty, will present a solo recital on Tuesday, September 20, 2011. The free performance will be held at 8:00 p.m. in Gorell Recital Hall, located on the second floor of John Sutton Hall.

The program will feature three works from Wong Does' upcoming debut compact disk, Horizon, by New Zealand composer Gareth Farr. The CD is scheduled to be released on the Trust Records label in October.

In the second half, Wong Doe will perform Chopin's magnificent set of Twenty-Four Preludes, Op. 28.

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Tickets are now available for upcoming performances by IUP music ensembles.

• The IUP Concert Band, Symphony Band, and Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Jack Stamp and Jason Worzbyt, will perform their annual Homecoming Concert on Sunday, October 2, 2011, at 3:00 p.m. in Fisher Auditorium. Tickets prices are $9 regular/$8 discount/$6 with I-Card and are available through the HUB Ticket Office.
• The IUP Symphony Orchestra will perform under the direction of Stanley Chepaitis on Thursday, October 13, 2011, at 8:00 p.m. in Gorell Recital Hall. Ticket prices are $7 regular/$6 discount/$4 with I-Card and are available through the HUB Ticket Office.

Confronting societal delusion and personal trauma, a teenage girl awakens to the beauty and fragility of her innermost nature.

The play will be performed on the Waller Hall Mainstage at 8:00 p.m. on October 6–8 and October 12–15. An afternoon performance will be held on October 9 at 2:00 p.m.

Tickets are now on sale through the HUB Box Office, 724-357-1313, or IUP Tickets.

A native of Spain, Jose Franch-Ballester is hailed as one of the world’s finest classical chamber artists. The performance will include a work with guest David Martynuik, IUP faculty member and director of the Marching Band.

Tickets are now on sale through the HUB Box Office, 724-357-1313 or at IUP Tickets.

The exhibit features a variety of Binai’s paintings, prints, and collages that represent a wide repertoire of works that have been exhibited extensively throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia.

Binai studied at Indiana University School of Fine Arts in Bloomington, Indiana, where he holds B.F.A. and M.F.A degrees. He also has studied at the School of Fine Arts in Fontainebleau, France, and Yale University School of Fine Arts.

Born in Lancaster and now a resident of Indiana, Binai has served as artist-in-residence at Fontainebleau and at Carnegie-Mellon University and served as curator of exhibitions at Detroit Institute of Arts, Carnegie Museum of Art, and the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art. He also taught at Purdue University.

As a Thai-American, Binai has long been interested in the art of Asia and in the fusion of Asian and Western cultures. He identifies Japanese woodblock prints and German Expressionism—the bold graphic art of Die Brücke in particular—as two significant influences on his own art. His vivid “shadow theater” paintings and detailed collages feature subjects drawn from history, literature, news sources, and personal memory.

Describing his work, the artist says, “I try to convey a sense of emotion through coloration.” In doing so, Binai has produced a impressive and world-exhibit body of work that reflects contemporary society with forceful observations on issues and events of our times.

Museum hours are Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 2:00 to 6:30 p.m.; Thursdays from noon to 7:30 p.m.; and Saturdays, from noon to 4:00 p.m. The museum is closed Sundays, Mondays, and university holidays.

Admission is free. For more information, call 724-357-2397.

The gala, which raises funds for the University Museum, costs $125 per person and will include live music and dance along with a special jewelry raffle. The RSVP date has been extended to September 7.

Silent Auction Items

Ceramic vase with black-pearl glaze — artist, John Conrad

“Canyon Suite XIV” — collage created from photos of the Grand Canyon, framed — artist, William A. Double 

Free-form crochet neckpiece with Swarovski crystals — artist, Barbara Kubala

Raku ceramic vase with copper glaze — artist, Catherine Paterson

“Civil War Soldier” — acrylic on canvas, framed, painted at Soldiers and Sailors Museum in Pittsburgh — artist, Kitty Spangler

Hand-dyed pashmina scarf, itajime shibori method — artist, Sandra Trimble 

Flying cherub figure of wood and plaster with gold leaf — artist unknown

“Classic Overtures” - award-winning acrylic on canvas, framed — artist, Ned Wert

The program will feature the IUP premieres of works by Chen Yi and Narong Prangcharoen along with works by Rachmaninov, Turina, and Bolling.

The members of the trio include IUP professor Linda Jennings, cello; Deborah Greitzer, violinist of the Buffalo Philharmonic; and Chindarat Charoenwongse, associate professor of piano at the University of Central Oklahoma.

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The recital will take place on Sunday, September 25, 2011, at 3:00 p.m. in Gorell Recital Hall (second floor, Sutton Hall). Tickets are now on sale at the HUB Ticket Office, 724-357-1313 or at IUP Tickets.

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The Lively Arts at Indiana University of Pennsylvania has announced its single ticket prices for the 2011–2012 season. The coming year includes the inaugural season of the Ovations! series, featuring touring artists from around the world. The Lively Arts also consists of other events presented by different departments within the College of Fine Arts.

Ticket prices for the Ovations! series represent a decrease in cost, on average, of 15 percent compared to similar productions in previous years at IUP.

The least expensive seat starts at $10 for university I-Card holders, children, and other students for events such as the smaller concerts held in Gorell Recital Hall. The maximum price for the best seats to larger events in the series will be $35. This includes the two touring Broadway shows and the performance by Bernadette Peters. All tickets for Ovations! will be by reserved seating.

Tickets for events produced by the departments in the College of Fine Arts will remain the same as last season. These series include Theater-by-the-Grove, Music Theater, Sound Choices, and Dance Theater. The prices for these productions range from $6 for children and I-Card holders up to a maximum of $15 for the musical productions. Seating for these events is by general admission.

A list of single ticket prices for all events is available online. The prices are listed both in the calendar of events and on the ticket information webpage.

Audience members can save additional money by subscribing to a series or a combination of series. There are a wide variety of packages that are designed to provide great flexibility, depending on tastes and schedules. People subscribing to a single series such as Ovations! or Theater-by-the-Grove will receive 10 percent off the single ticket price.

For a combination, such as the popular Totally Theater package, subscribers will save at least 15 percent. Subscribers choosing the Totally Everything package, which includes all twenty-four major performance events, will save at least 20 percent.

Another popular plan is the Flex Pak, which allows audience members to select at least eight events out of the twenty-four, and saves $1.00 for each ticket purchased.

Other plans are available that include all of the Ovations! Fisher events, such as Broadway legend Bernadette Peters, the touring musicals In the Heights and Young Frankenstein, Eileen Ivers’ Irish Christmas, and more.

Subscriptions are available now through Thursday, October 6, 2011, when Theater-by-the-Grove opens its season with the hard-hitting new drama Lindsey’s Oyster.

A brochure is available detailing all subscription plans. To receive your brochure, call the Lively Arts at 724-357-ARTS (2787) or e-mail lively-arts@iup.edu. The brochure and order form can also be downloaded from the Lively Arts website.

The more affordable pricing structure for tickets is due primarily to the wide variety of sponsors, partners, individuals, and grants that will support the upcoming season. Area business sponsors include Robindale Energy Services, Inc.; Wilmoth Interests, Inc.; the Indiana Gazette, Renda Broadcasting, the Co-op-Store, Delaney Automotive Group, and Sheetz. Special gifts have also been provided by the Helwig family, the Helwig Distinguished Artist Endowment, and the Mary Jane Shafer Memorial Speaker Fund, plus individual contributions made to the Lively Arts through the Premiere Club.

Campus partners helping to sponsor the season include the Student Cooperative Association, African American Cultural Center, Office of International Education, Committee for the Study of Culture and Religion, Eberly College of Business, and others.

Grants have also been received from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour, and Pennsylvania Rural Arts Alliance.

This year’s fundraising event, titled Eine Kleine Kit Kat Klub, is a taste of Jazz-Age Berlin with the cosmopolitan setting inspired by the German Expressionist artists of the early twenty-first century.

The theme plays off a combination of Mozart’s well-known piece “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik,” translated as “A Little Night Music,” and the fictional hot nightspot Kit Kat Klub depicted in the hit musical Cabaret, set in pre-War Berlin.

The gala will include a cocktail reception with an exhibition preview in the museum, elegant dining, and live cabaret-style entertainment in the Blue Room of IUP’s John Sutton Hall.

Also part of the evening will be a silent auction of art and a benefit raffle of a specially designed pendant-pin. The piece is presented in a 14-karat white gold setting and chain with 0.51 ct. weight in brilliantly cut pave diamonds and natural pearls pendant-pin. The raffle is sponsored by the Indiana Arts Council.

A sneak preview of the Paul Binai: Fifty Year Retrospective exhibit will also be available to those that attend the gala. Binai, who now resides in Indiana, is well known internationally for his expressionistic use of bold lines and the fusion of Asian and Western cultures. The exhibit opens to the general public on September 13 and runs through December 3.

The cost of the gala is $125 per person, with proceeds benefitting the many exhibits and related programs offered throughout the year by the University Museum. To receive an invitation and for more information, including purchasing raffle tickets, contact the University Museum at 724-357-2397 or e-mail Sally Daskivich at sdaskivi@iup.edu.

The University Museum is presented by the College of Fine Arts as one of its many Lively Arts events held throughout the year for the general public.

This change is to accommodate Peter’s appearance in Stephen Sondheim’s Follies, which, following a highly successful run at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., will move to Broadway in August.

When asked about this change, Hank Knerr, director of the Lively Arts, said “This is not unusual at all, especially when working with a legend such as Ms. Peters. Even though it involves changing our original plans, we are proud that a performer we have asked to come to IUP is in such demand.”

“The Broadway production will involve dozens of actors, musicians, designers, managers, and other support staff and play to thousands over its five-month run,” Knerr said. “The success of that centers squarely its leading cast member. Experiencing the incredible talents of Bernadette Peters will be well worth the wait.”

The IUP performance will be held in Fisher Auditorium and signals the finale to both the academic year and the new Ovations! series inaugural season. The Lively Arts is in the process of informing the many people who have already purchased subscriptions for the Peters event about the change.

The IUP appearance is funded by the Helwig Distinguished Artist Endowment, with additional contributions from the Helwig family.

Leading the Follies cast as Sally Durant Plummer, Peters received glowing reviews for her performance at the Kennedy Center. The New York Times’ Ben Brantley stated that her performance of the classic torch song “Losing My Mind” was “the most affecting version of this ballad I have ever heard.”

The New York production is set for Broadway’s Marquis Theater and will include a cast of forty-one actors and a live orchestra of twenty-eight musicians. It is planned to run through January 2012 with eight performances a week, six days a week. Previews will begin on August 7, 2011, with its official opening set for September 12.

An additional date change for the Ovations! season will be moving the musical theater performance of Young Frankenstein by one day from April 17 to April 16, 2012. This is to assist the Broadway tour’s extensive engagement schedule.