Mountain Laurels

A choral Symphony
Celebrating the Centennial of State College

Music by Bruce Trinkley
Lyrics by Central Pennsylvania poets

Preview on February 23, 1996 at 7:30 p.m.
World Premiere on Saturday, February 24, 1996 at 7:30 p.m.
Matinee on Sunday February 25, 1996 at 2:00 p.m.
Eisenhower Auditorium
University Park Campus of the Pennsylvania State University

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PROLOGUE
	Holly Anderson, soprano; Kimberly Burkhard, mezzo-soprano; Elizabeth Asmus, harp Penn State Concert Choir, D. Douglas Miller, Director
		from The Message of the West, an Ode	Fred Lewis Pattee
		The Mountain	Jason Charnesky
SEASONS
	Oriana Singers and String Orchestra, Lynn Ellen Drafall, Director
		Lovely October	Joseph Grucci
		Elm Trees in the Early Close of Winter	Emily Grosholz
		Notebook for May	Deborah Austin
		Sun	Melinda Mucha
Mountain Airs I
	Madrigal Singers from the State College Choral Society, Russell Shelley, Director
		Introduction	Maya Spence
		Missa Papae Marcelli	Deborah Austin
Journeys
	Penn State Glee Club, Bruce Trinkley, Director Graduate Brass Quintet: Cameron Crotts, Russ Perlman, trumpet; Kim Reese, horn; Tim McKay, trombone; Jason Byrnes, tuba; Michael Hooper, timpani
		Drypoint: evening of first snow	Deborah Austin
		Spring Feber	Emily Grosholz
		In Almost July	Deborah Austin
		I Know a Road	Joseph Grucci
Mountain Airs II
	The Pennsylvania Chamber Chorale, D. Douglas Miller, Director
		from Gathering of Friends after the Fall of the Syng Dynasty	Emily Grosholz
		Furniture	Dorothey Roberts
Mother Nature
	The State College Elementary and Junior High Choruses Patti Begg, Tracy Bunnell, Kim Fodor, Jo Henry, Molly MacAninch, Directors; Miranda Corl, piano
		The Bat	Theodore Roethke
		Food Songs: The Egg	John Haag
		Mid-country Blow	Theodore Roethke
		Winter Fire	Jack McManis
		April Snow	E. H. Knapp
		dandelions	Deborah Austin
		Song to a Coy Parent	John Haag
Mountain Airs III
	The Penn State Chamber Singers, D. Douglas Miller, Director
		Reading at the Arts Festival	John Balaban
		Song for the Thumb Piano	John Haag
		Larry Frey, Vijay Hariharan, Michael Hooper, Erik Liebegott, Thumb Pianos; Neal Holter, string bass
Images and Elegies
	The Penn State Concert Choir, D. Douglas Miller, Director Chris Sanchack, piano
		Vernal Sentiment	Theodore Roethke
		The Premonition	Theodore Roethke
		Elegy for the Swans at Grace Pond	Bruce Weigl
		The Apples	Dorothy Roberts
		Indian Summer	Robert Lima
		Haiku Trio	Bill Hanson
		Distinct	Dorothy Roberts

INTERMISSION

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OLD MAINIA
The Pennsylvania State College Radio Hour
Texts drawn from FROTH
The Penn State Humor Magazine 1910 - 1970's
The State College Municipal Band, Ned C. Deihl, Conductor
The Nittany Knights Barbershop Chorus, Joe Malafarina, Director
The Penn State Women's Chorale, Paul McPhail, Director
Discantus, Lynn Ellen Drafall, Director
The Hi-Lo's from the Penn State Glee Club, Bruce Trinkley, Director
Rick Hoover, percussion; Neal Holter, string bass


Overture
	The State College Municipal Band and Combined Choruses
		"dandelions in march"
		The Willow
THE GROOVES OF ACADEME Four Revolutionary Folk Songs
	The Hi-Lo's
		Freshman Plaint
		The Party
		Radical Rag	Ron Bonn '52
		"I hate the guys who . . . "
Frothy Encores
	The Nittany Knights Barbershop Chorus
		Mary's Lamb I
		In the Moonlight
		Mary's Lamb II
THE DESCANT OF MAN Three Evolutionary Love Songs
	Discantus, Sarah Spraitzar, piano
		On Anthropoids	Audry Goldstein
		Natural Love	Ten Kunin '48
		Burning Kisses
Willow Songs An Old College Medley
	Combined Choruses and the Municipal Band
		Our Farewell Toast
		The Campus
		1912
		The Willow (Reprise)