Welcome to a factory where the workers are acrobats and the machines are circus props. Birdhouse Factory, conjured by a creative team of Cirque du Soleil veterans and performed by Cirque Mechanics, comes to Eisenhower Auditorium November 9.
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One of America’s great modern dance companies comes to Penn State for the first time in more than twenty years in a performance of three works—The Constant Shift of Pulse, Off Screen, and Minus 16—November 6 at Eisenhower Auditorium.
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Virtuoso Valentina Lisitsa, who describes herself as a “redneck pianist” because she lives in rural North Carolina instead of one of the world’s music capitals, joins the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra for a performance of Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 November 13 at Eisenhower Auditorium.
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Philadelphia native Jimmy Heath, one of the great tenor saxophonists of bebop jazz, performs jazz standards, his own originals, and works from the Broadway songbook with his quartet November 20 at Schwab Auditorium.
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From the magical aura of Corelli’s Christmas Concerto, to Vivaldi’s imitation of birdcalls in The Goldfinch, to Bach’s Brandenburg concertos Nos. 4 and 5, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s December 4 program at Schwab Auditorium brims with Baroque masterpieces.
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From time to time patrons ask me about our ticket prices. They wonder how we set our prices, or why we don’t offer a greater range of prices, or why prices vary among performances. I’ll use this column to attempt to shed some light on the process of pricing.
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