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Center for the Performing Arts prepares for third year of Classical Music Project

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  • Dotty and Paul Rigby share love of music, Distinguished Service Award for 2013

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  • Hear WPSU FM's interview with Opera Atelier's co-directors.

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  • Toronto's Opera Atelier performs Baroque version of Mozart's The Magic Flute

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  • Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra takes audiences on a musical and visual tour of bygone Europe

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  • Penn State senior Jim Hogan discusses role in MASS and touring in Spring Awakening

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  • Hear our interview with House of Dreams creator.

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  • Leonard Bernstein MASS uses singers, actors, and dancers to explore faith

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  • Local educators meet the challenge of teaching about the Holocaust

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  • Australian theatre company explores moral responsibility in the play Hitler's Daughter

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  • Hear our interview with Opera Atelier co-artistic director.

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  • State College children's book
    author lends insight into
    How I Became a Pirate

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  • It Gets Better brings message of hope from web to stage

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  • It Gets Better focuses local attention on issues such as bullying, overcoming obstacles

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  • Check out our interview with It Gets Better writer and director Leisel Reinhart

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  • Listen to our interview with singer Kathy Mattea

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  • Kathy Mattea celebrates Appalachian songs, culture in Calling Me Home concert

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  • Hear our interview with pianist Christopher O'Riley

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  • O'Riley and Haimovitz break with tradition in Shuffle.Play.Listen

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  • Dynamic St. Lawrence String Quartet returns to perform more Beethoven

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  • Check out our interview with the legendary jazz bassist Ron Carter

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  • Bassist Ron Carter takes the road less traveled to stardom in jazz

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  • Company Finzi Pasca brings Chekhov characters to life through the circus arts

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  • Hear our interview with Banjo Summit 2 featured musician Tony Trischka

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  • Listen to an interview with St. Lawrence String Quartet cellist Christopher Costanza.

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  • Béla Fleck, Tony Trischka, and 4 other expert pickers headline Banjo Summit 2

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  • Hear our interview with choreographer and artistic director Doug Varone.

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  • Hear our interview with Anonymous 4 singer Susan Hellauer.

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  • Relive last season with our colorful annual report.

    2011–2012 review
  • Doug Varone's modern dance company performs emotional, technically powerful program

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  • Anonymous 4 marks 25 years as ensemble by singing music that spans a thousand years

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  • Actors From The London Stage aims to make Shakespeare's plays accessible to everyone

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  • Hear our interview with Actors From The London Stage's Nicola Alexis.

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  • Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio's success like a long-lasting marriage

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  • Preservation Hall and Del McCoury bands merge jazz and bluegrass

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  • Personal picks: ‘arts snob’ high on art related to environment

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  • Listen to our interview with cellist Sharon Robinson.

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  • Personal picks: Codispot enjoys seeing shows with his mother

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  • Listen to our interview with Bluegrass legend Del McCoury.

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  • Personal picks: Vashaw anxious to see dance and It Gets Better

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  • Listen to our interview with Preservation Hall Jazz Band's Ben Jaffe.

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  • Hear our interview with House of Dreams creator.

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  • Hear our interview with Opera Atelier co-artistic director.

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  • Personal picks: arts presenter veteran endorses events for sentimental reasons

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  • The Great Mountain tool to help youth learn about the environment

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  • Center for the Performing Arts academic partnerships provide broad-reaching impact

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  • Distinguished Service Award winner Hanley championed international dance

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  • Opera Atelier's Marshall Pynkoski talks about his staging of The Magic Flute.

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