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Director’s View: Our season
is about the choices you want

The 2007–2008 Center for the Performing Arts season is about choices. We’re proud to present the choices you want.

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Perlman believes great music
comes from being team player

Violin superstar Itzhak Perlman returns to Penn State for the first time since 1993 to perform with pianist Rohan De Silva in a recital September 27 at Eisenhower Auditorium. This concert, which had been scheduled for September 27, was postponed because of Perlman’s illness.

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Violinist at the top of his game

On October 23, 1993, Joe Carter of the Toronto Blue Jays became just the second player in Major League Baseball history to win a World Series with a walk-off homerun. But Carter’s achievement wasn’t that night’s only virtuoso performance by a player at the top of his game.

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Freelon charts own course
to jazz singing supremacy

Backed by the world-famous Count Basie Orchestra, Nnenna Freelon sings American songbook classics in her September 29 debut appearance at Eisenhower Auditorium.

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Basie’s big band still swings

Pianist and bandleader extraordinaire William “Count” Basie died in 1984, but the big band that carries his name and upholds his legacy still swings more than seventy years after its debut.

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© 2007 Center for the Performing Arts @ Penn State

Director
George Trudeau

Marketing and Communications Director
Laura Sullivan

Art Director
Urszula Kulakowski

Multimedia Specialist
Erik Baxter

Editor
John Rafacz

Writers
John Rafacz
Laura Sullivan

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"The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee," from the original Broadway cast recording of the same title, used with permission. © 2005 Sh-K-Boom Records, Inc.

“Schön Rosmarin,” from Itzhak Perlman’s A La Carte, used with permission. © 1995 EMI Records, Ltd.

“Now or Never,” from Nnenna Freelon’s Blueprint of a Lady: Sketches of Billie Holiday, used with permission. © 2005 Concord Music Group, Inc.