Exceptional Etudes

A Faculty Recital featuring Professor of Music Susan Hegberg on organ

3 p.m.

Sunday, September 17

Weber Chapel Auditorium

When Jeanne Demessieux's etudes appeared in 1946, they were recognized as the most difficult organ music that had ever been published. A performance of these rarely heard pieces illuminates the Department of Music's yearlong examination of works that have redefined traditional boundaries. The program also includes music of Bach and Dupre.

What Fades? What Flourishes?

A Faculty Recital featuring tenor Jeffrey Fahnestock, lecturer of music, and Assistant Professor of Music Holly Roadfeldt-O'Riordan on piano

8 p.m.

Saturday, September 23

Stretansky Concert Hall

Cunningham Center for Music and Art

British composer Gerald Finzi's song cycle A Young Man's Exhortation , with poetry of Thomas Hardy, takes its inspiration from Psalm 89: “In the morning man shall grow up like grass; in the morning he shall flourish and pass away: in the evening he shall fall, grow dry, and wither...” The program also includes Schumann's enduring Liederkreis, op. 39, with poetry of Joseph von Eichendorff.

Shostakovich & Comrades

A Faculty Chamber Music Concert

8 p.m.

Monday, September 25

Stretansky Concert Hall

Cunningham Center for Music and Art

A commemoration of the 100 th birthday of Dmitri Shostakovich, born this day in 1906, recognizes activist composers who have been marginalized by some and celebrated by others for their political views. The wide-ranging program includes music for piano trio, percussion, jazz band, voice and player piano.

I Can't Believe You Asked That!

When PC is BS

A no-holds-barred Q&A about race, sex, religion and other taboos

8 p.m.

Tuesday, September 26

Meeting Rooms 1-5

Degenstein Campus Center

Join Phillip Milano, author of I Can't Believe You Asked That! and founder of the groundbreaking YFORUM.com and learn to tear off the blinders of decorum and gain the tools you need to discuss taboo topics

Songs without Singing

A Guest Artist Recital

8 p.m.

Wednesday, September 27

Stretansky Concert Hall

Cunningham Center for Music and Art

Jennifer Blyth of Dickinson College performs piano music centered around recorded speech and projected texts, with a work by Assistant Professor of Music Patrick Long for piano and interactive computer music system. The program also includes works by Bach, Busoni, Rzewski and Wagner.

Brilliance of Buenos Aires

A Faculty Chamber Music Concert

8 p.m.

Friday, September 29

Stretansky Concert Hall

Cunningham Center for Music and Art

An exciting evening devoted to the music of one composer: Astor Piazzolla. His bold conception of nuevo tango, which met with scorn and condemnation in the 1940s, has earned him a reputation as the savior of tango and provoked renewed fascination with this unique expression of the Argentine character, not only in the once-declining dance halls of Buenos Aires, but in the world's leading classical music venues. The program includes music for piano, strings and winds, plus highlights from Piazzolla's opera Maria de Buenos Aires.

The Inner Circle

A Faculty and Guest Artist Recital featuring soprano Nina Tober, associate professor and head of the Department of Music, and Trevor Stephenson on fortepiano and harpsicord

8 p.m.

Wednesday, October 11

Stretansky Concert Hall

Cunningham Center for Music and Art

From the time of the Florentine Camerata in the 16th century, music written for a composer's inner circle – friends, family and aficionados – has often found a more permanent home in the concert hall, where it has reached more listeners than the composer might have imagined. For this intimate recital, with repertoire ranging from the Baroque to Schubert, the audience will be seated on the stage along with the performers.

ZUM

Part of the 2006-2007 Artist Series, the concert kicks-off the 12th Annual Latino Symposium, On the Fringes and in the Center: Cities of the Hispanic World (which continues through Friday, October 27).

7:30 p.m.

Thursday, October 26

Degenstein Center Theater

ZUM is an instrumental world music group that fuses of traditional gypsy, klezmer and Arabic melodies as well as tango with “unbuttoned passion and brilliance” (The Strad). Presenting music from cultures that shift between degrees of marginalization and mainstream popularity, ZUM creates explosive performances that have sold out in the U.K.

For tickets to ZUM call 570-372-ARTS (2787).

Is Universal Human Rights an Unrealistic Dream?

30th Annual Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellows Keynote Address featuring Chinese human rights activist Dimon Liu

7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, November 1

Degenstein Center Theater

Liu's lecture will explore her interest in human rights activism and the possibility of democracy in China.

Mixed But Not Mixed Up: Understanding Multiracial Identity

A multiracial-student panel, facilitated by organizational development and social justice consultant Charmaine Wijeyesinghe, will discuss the experiences and viewpoints of multiracials living on a college campus

8 p.m.

Thursday, November 2

Meeting Rooms 1-5

Degenstein Campus Center

Mahler and Bernstein

A University Orchestra Concert featuring guest conductor Leif Bjaland and music director Jennifer Sacher Wiley, associate professor of music

8 p.m.

Friday, November 3

Stretansky Concert Hall

Guest Leif Bjaland, artistic director and conductor of the Florida West Coast Symphony, joins Jennifer Sacher Wiley in leading the works of two musical giants, both brilliant conductors of the New York Philharmonic and misunderstood composers: Gustav Mahler, who said, “My time will come,” and Leonard Bernstein, who fulfilled that prophecy as leader of the Mahler revival in the 1960s. Maestro Bjaland will receive an honorary doctorate from Susquehanna at this performance.

God and Gays:Bridging the Gap

Tuesday, November 7

The Campus Theatre

Market Street, Lewisburg

A special screening of the documentary Gods and Gays: Bridging the Gap, sponsored by Susquehanna University 's Jewish Studies Program, Bucknell University 's Office of LGBT Awareness and The Campus Theatre, as part of the theatre's annual Documentary Film Festival. The film is an open and honest reflection about gays who are religious, and their struggles to reconcile spirituality and sexuality. Director Luane Beck and producer Kim Clark will be in attendance at this special screening.

Climate, Infectious Disease and Human Health

8 p.m.

Wednesday, November 8

Stretansky Concert Hall

Claritas Distinguished Lecture in Science Series presents a lecture by Rita Colwell, former director of the National Science Foundation. Colwell's interests are focused on global infectious diseases, water and health. She is currently developing an international network to address emerging infectious diseases and water issues, including safe drinking water for both the developed and developing world.

Variance Launch & Reading

7:30 p.m.

Thursday, December 7

Isaacs Auditorium

Seibert Hall

Join student editors Geoffrey Stokes ‘07 and Mallery Koons '07 for the second annual public reading and launch of Susquehanna's diversity-focused literary magazine, Variance. The issue's theme and title, On the Fringe, coincide with the 2006-2007 university theme.

LA Theatre Works in Private Lives

Part of the 2006-2007 Artist Series

7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, January 23

Degenstein Center Theater

Presented by the foremost radio theatre company in the country, Noël Coward's Private Lives explores the psychological reasoning behind what we do or do not do for love. As one character says, “I think very few people are completely normal, really, deep down in their private lives.” Arguably a classic of the theatre, the plot exemplifies an unconventional relationship in a recreation of radio broadcast productions which were once the height of fashion.

For tickets call 570-372-ARTS (2787).

Pierrot Lunaire

A Faculty Chamber Music Concert

8 p.m.

Thursday, February 1

Stretansky Concert Hall

Cunningham Center for Music and Art

One of the seminal works of the 20th century, Arnold Schoenberg's radical 1912 melodrama for speaker and chamber ensemble, Pierrot Lunaire , is by turns amusing and nightmarish, sentimental and macabre. Assistant Professor of Music Patrick Long conducts a complete performance of this expressionist masterpiece.

Preservation Hall Jazz Band

Part of the 2006-2007 Artist Series

7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, February 13

Weber Chapel Auditorium

Ambassadors for New Orleans jazz, this legendary group has included some of the most well-respected jazz performers of the genre's history. A truly American music, jazz was created in the early 20 th century and heavily influenced by African-Americans; today it is not only mainstream but also played and enjoyed by people of all races and nationalities.

For tickets call 570-372-ARTS (2787).

Race, Restitution and Reconciliation: Notes from the South African Transition

A Lecture by Jonathan Jansen, dean of the School of Education University of Pretoria , South Africa

7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, February 21

Isaacs Auditorium

This lecture will examine transitions in post-apartheid South Africa , particularly as they related to issues of race and reconciliation. Dr. Jansen's talk ties to the university theme statement addressing “groups within society that have, or have not, migrated from being on the fringes to being more politically and socially significant and how they have done so or been unable to do so.”

Philadanco

Part of the 2006-2007 Artist Series

7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, March 13

Degenstein Center Theater

One of Pennsylvania 's leading cultural organizations, the Philadelphia Dance Company started as a community-based performing arts group founded by an African-American woman for African-Americans and now enjoys international status as a highly acclaimed professional dance organization.

For tickets call 570-372-ARTS (2787).

A Reading by Patsy Sims

Part of the 2006-2007 Visiting Writers Series

7:30 p.m.

Monday, March 19

Isaacs Auditorium

Seibert Hall

Join author Patsy Sims as she reads excerpts from her book The Klan, detailing, through personal interviews, the workings of the Ku Klux Klan.

SICK: A Seminar on the Relationships between Society, Sexuality, and Disease

A presentation by the Office of Multicultural Affairs, the Medical Humanities Initiative, and the Health Care Studies program

11:15 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.

Monday, March 26

Degenstein Center Theater

Facilitated by Dr. Ananya Mukherjea, assistant professor of women’s studies and sociology at the City University of New York, Staten Island, this discussion will consider the social construction and social politics of diseases — how they enter our consciousness; how they enter our bodies; how they enter our culture — in terms of gender, sexuality, and sex. Particularly, we’ll look at diseases like HIV/AIDS and syphilis that have been historically associated with the sexual (and political) margins of our society. We will also consider poorly understood and vaguely defined diseases like hysteria and ADD that are often portrayed in gendered terms. Finally, we’ll consider the sexual moralism and fear that surrounds discourses of health and pathology.

Mainstream Mavericks

A Faculty-Student Concert

8 p.m.

Thursday, March 29

Stretansky Concert Hall

Few composers have managed to dominate their centuries so uniquely and maintain a hold on the minds of musicians so enduringly as the two revolutionaries Ludwig van Beethoven and Charles Ives. Department of Music faculty and students perform vocal and instrumental works of these two great composers.

African Cultural Memory:African and African American Musical Performance

A lecture by Carol Muller, associate professor of music at the University of Pennsylvania

7 p.m.

Tuesday, April 3

Stretansky Concert Hall

An examination of controversial ideas surrounding African and African American musical performance.

Ernest Bloch's Sacred Service

A Masterworks Concert featuring Susquehanna University's Masterworks Chorus and Orchestra, conducted by Associate Professor of Music Jennifer Sacher Wiley with Cyril Stretansky, professor of music and director of choral activities, serving as cantor

3 p.m.

Sunday, April 15

Weber Chapel Auditorium

On Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Department of Music concludes its series of On the Fringes concerts with Bloch's Avodath Ha-Kodesh: The Sacred Service , a majestic work for cantor, large orchestra and chorus based on the Sabbath morning service of the Reform Jewish prayer book. The work exemplifies the resilience of Jewish liturgy and the innovations that ensure the survival of its musical traditions. Sponsored in part by the Jewish Studies Program and the Holocaust/Genocide Studies Fund.

Purple Hearts

Medical Humanities Initiative keynote address featuring photographer Nina Berman

7 p.m.

Wednesday, April 18

Benjamin Apple Lecture Hall, Bogar Hall

Ms. Berman will discuss Purple Hearts , a book she photographed and wrote about American soldiers wounded in Iraq.