The final Penn State Centre Dimensions Jazz Ensemble concert of the 2013-14 year occurs at 8 p.m. May 1, in Esber Recital Hall on the University Park campus of Penn State. The performance will feature graduating members Kate Anderson, Donté Ford, Sam Hepplemann, Jaren Angud, and David Kraus in a program including Bob Brookmeyer's arrangement of Skylark, (originally composed by Hoagy Carmichael), Duke Ellington's "Sophisticated Lady, Dew and Mud" by Ray Brown, "Standing Up In a Hammock" by Bill Potts and Don Menza's "Back Home." Centre Dimensions is directed by Dan Yoder. Tickets are $4.99/general and $2/student (available at the door).

The lecture listed below has been canceled due to winter weather travel difficulties:

Teryl Dobbs, chair of the music education area at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will visit the Penn State School of Music at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 4, to present a lecture titled "Trauma, Music-Making, and Musical Remembrance: What Survivor Testimonies Reveal about Making Music in Theresienstadt." The lecture is free and open to the public.

The culminating performance of Penn State's annual "Men of Song" festival will occur at 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 20, in Esber Recital Hall. "Men of Song" brings together more than 100 young men representing Pennsylvania middle schools and high schools to join with the Penn State Glee Club in a celebration of male choral singing. The festival choir will conducted by Christopher Kiver. Free admission.

Bart Feller, professor of flute at Rutgers University and principal flutist of the New Jersey Symphony, New York City Opera, and Santa Fe Opera Orchestra, will present a guest recital as a special event of Penn State Flute Day on Sunday, October 20 at 1:00 p.m. in Esber Recital Hall. Feller will be accompanied by pianist Ann Deighton, and assisted by Penn State faculty flute professor Naomi Seidman. Free admission.

The Capitol Quartet, including Penn State School of Music faculty member David Stambler, will perform a concert at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 7, in the intimate space of Eisenhower Chapel. Admission is free. They will also be performing an educational program at State College Area High School on October 7 at 11:45am.

Penn State's Essence of Joy will present its annual Homecoming concert at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 13, in Esber Recital Hall on the University Park campus. Titled "We Are the Dream," the performance will feature repertoire from the African and African-American choral traditions.

The Penn State School of Music will present "Dimensions in Jazz" at 8 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 13, in Esber Recital Hall on the University Park campus. The first performance of the year for Penn State's three jazz "big bands," the concert will feature each band playing arrangements by Count Basie, Stan Kenton, Woody Herman and Duke Ellington, among others.

The Penn State Philharmonic Orchestra will present its first concert of the 2013-14 season at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 10, in Eisenhower Auditorium on the University Park campus. The performance will feature Brahms "Piano Concerto No. 2 in Bb Major, Op. 83" with piano soloist Steven Smith. This performance caps off an exceptional 42-year performance career for Smith, who will retire from the School of Music in spring 2014. The Philharmonic Orchestra is conducted by Gerardo Edelstein.