Called “iconoclastic” (England’s Sunday Times), “wonderfully clever” (rock star David Bowie) and “a musicologist’s nightmare” (Music Week), The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain “30 plucking years” anniversary tour will make a stop at Penn State with a performance at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct.
A Bleed Blue blood drive, sponsored by the Center for the Performing Arts and the Student Bar Association, will take place 10 a.m.–3:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 12, in the Eisenhower Auditorium Conference Room.
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis will make its seventh appearance at Penn State when it performs at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 7, in Eisenhower Auditorium.
The Center for the Performing Arts has canceled an Oct. 4 movement workshop for families because of rainy and unseasonably cold weather. The workshop had been scheduled for 2 p.m. at The Arboretum at Penn State.
The Knights, called a “talented and vivacious Brooklyn indie orchestra” by the New York Times, will perform “Music from the Great War Era” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 1, in Esber Recital Hall.