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Center for the Performing Arts prepares for third year of Classical Music Project
Dotty and Paul Rigby share 2013 Distinguished Service Award
Candy wrapper collection to provide more than 400 meals to the hungry
Dotty and Paul Rigby share love of music, Distinguished Service Award for 2013
Hear WPSU FM's interview with Opera Atelier's co-directors.
Toronto's Opera Atelier performs Baroque version of Mozart's The Magic Flute
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra takes audiences on a musical and visual tour of bygone Europe
Penn State senior Jim Hogan discusses role in MASS and touring in Spring Awakening
Hear our interview with House of Dreams creator.
Leonard Bernstein MASS uses singers, actors, and dancers to explore faith
Local educators meet the challenge of teaching about the Holocaust
Australian theatre company explores moral responsibility in the play Hitler's Daughter
Hear our interview with Opera Atelier co-artistic director.
State College children's book author lends insight into How I Became a Pirate
It Gets Better brings message of hope from web to stage
It Gets Better focuses local attention on issues such as bullying, overcoming obstacles
Check out our interview with It Gets Better writer and director Leisel Reinhart
Listen to our interview with singer Kathy Mattea
Kathy Mattea celebrates Appalachian songs, culture in Calling Me Home concert
Hear our interview with pianist Christopher O'Riley
O'Riley and Haimovitz break with tradition in Shuffle.Play.Listen
Dynamic St. Lawrence String Quartet returns to perform more Beethoven
Check out our interview with the legendary jazz bassist Ron Carter
Bassist Ron Carter takes the road less traveled to stardom in jazz
Company Finzi Pasca brings Chekhov characters to life through the circus arts
Hear our interview with Banjo Summit 2 featured musician Tony Trischka
Listen to an interview with St. Lawrence String Quartet cellist Christopher Costanza.
Béla Fleck, Tony Trischka, and 4 other expert pickers headline Banjo Summit 2
Hear our interview with choreographer and artistic director Doug Varone.
Hear our interview with Anonymous 4 singer Susan Hellauer.
Relive last season with our colorful annual report.
Doug Varone's modern dance company performs emotional, technically powerful program
Anonymous 4 marks 25 years as ensemble by singing music that spans a thousand years
Actors From The London Stage aims to make Shakespeare's plays accessible to everyone
Hear our interview with Actors From The London Stage's Nicola Alexis.
Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio's success like a long-lasting marriage
Preservation Hall and Del McCoury bands merge jazz and bluegrass
Personal picks: ‘arts snob’ high on art related to environment
Listen to our interview with cellist Sharon Robinson.
Personal picks: Codispot enjoys seeing shows with his mother
Listen to our interview with Bluegrass legend Del McCoury.
Personal picks: Vashaw anxious to see dance and It Gets Better
Listen to our interview with Preservation Hall Jazz Band's Ben Jaffe.
Personal picks: arts presenter veteran endorses events for sentimental reasons
The Great Mountain tool to help youth learn about the environment
Center for the Performing Arts academic partnerships provide broad-reaching impact
Distinguished Service Award winner Hanley championed international dance
Opera Atelier's Marshall Pynkoski talks about his staging of The Magic Flute.
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