Upcoming Happy Valley Events Blog
Bingo Benefit for Centre County PAWS
Centre County PAWS is hosting a Bingo benefit on Friday, June 1st at The Elks Club in Boalsburg. Doors open at 5:00 pm, with early birds at 6:30 pm. Bingo begins at 7:00 pm.
Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door. Tickets may be purchased online at http://www.centrecountypaws.org/bingo or at Centre County PAWS, 1401 Trout Road, State College
A Summer of Joy: Fun Things to Look For
Looking for exciting things to do this summer? State College and the surrounding areas offer a wide variety of events throughout the summer. Get outdoors, enjoy the summer weather!
Raystown Ziplines & More, LLC. offers patrons the chance to speed down a 1000ft zip line, test your skills against your friends on a paintball course. Raystown is promotes participation in outdoor activities, they are a family fun and educational park that will have you coming back time and again.
Tussey Mountain features go-karts, a skate park, a chip-and-putt golf course, driving range, batting cages and fishing throughout the summer.
Mount Nittany Vineyard and Winery is your local vineyard and winery keeping a tradition for over 20 years. Visit the, at their mountainside location above the historic village of Linden Hall and taste award-winning wines.
Penn's Cave is American's only water cavern and wildlife park. The cave is a constant 52 degrees inside the cave plus the amazing wildlife park with bears, mountain lions, and even wolves.
The Sky's The Limit Ballooning will give you a bird's eye view from the air in a wonderful hot air balloon. Drift through the sky and the extensive Pennsylvania landscape. A gift certificate makes for the perfect gift.
Pine Bottom Aviation Services offers a personalized helicopter charter and sightseeing tours throughout central Pennsylvania. 30-minute tour gift certificates make for the perfect gifts.
Medlar Field at Lubrano Park is a chance to see the Single-A Pirates affiliate the State College Spikes in action. Nittany Lion baseball is also played in the spring.
Penn State Golf Courses are two 18-hole courses, Blue and White, and an array of practice facilities. The White Course provides a challenging alternative and both are open to the public.
Skydive Happy Valley offers the thrill of a lifetime. If you're brave enough to jump out of an airplane. Located at the Mifflin Country airport, it is the premier drop zone in central Pennsylvania.
Dayze Gone Bye Carriage Rides offer people an old-fashioned carriage ride and a glance at a blend of Amish cultures seen nowhere else in the world. It's a view into the "The Good Old Days" when life was simpler.
For out-of-towners its tough to decide where to stay...but State College offers a variety of hotels for all your sleeping needs.
Fairfield Inn & Suites offers guests spacious rooms featuring luxury bedding, coffeemaker, high-speed internet and climate control. It is minutes from Penn State University and downtown State College.
Daysinn Penn State is located downtown. It is a full-service hotel, an indoor pool, fitness center, tanning booths, internet, conference and banquet facilities. It is located next to Mad Mex Restaurant and Brewsky's Bottle Shop
Carnegie Inn & Spa is located in the Toftrees area boasting one of the fanciest dining facilities in the area. It is also a striking place to stay, the twenty rooms and two suites are individually decorated, have ceiling fans and tall, sunny windowns.
The Atherton Hotel offers a full service boutique hotel conveniently located within a block of Penn State campus. Amenities and conveniences include a complimentary use of Penn State's Pools and Natatorium, on-site exercise facilities, in-room dining, shuttle services, comfortable guest rooms, full service conference and banquet facilities. The Atherton is within walking distances to most all university and downtown restaurants, shops and venues.
The Nittany Lion Inn is the only hotel on Penn State campus. The inn has a fitness center, putting green, free internet, conference and banquet facilities. In addition to a dining room and Whiskers Lounge the Inn has been awarded the AAA Four Diamond Award.
Classical Music Project enters second season with eight presentations and new website
The Center for the Performing Arts Classical Music Project — soon to begin its second season — demonstrates the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven and other classical composers is alive and well in the twenty-first century.
The three-year Classical Music Project, supported by a $470,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation plus an additional $317,000 from various Penn State partners, provides unprecedented opportunities to connect students, faculty and the community with classical music artists and programs.
The project features eight presentations and a bevy of related, mostly free, activities during the September 2012 to April 2013 season. Project cornerstones are a major residency program, student engagement activities, curriculum partnerships across the university and a collaboration with Penn State Altoona in which ensembles visit and interact with students at that location.
George Trudeau, director of the Center for the Performing Arts, leads the project. Marica Tacconi, Penn State professor of musicology, provides faculty leadership for the curriculum and academic components of the project. Katie O’Hara Krebs is administrative support coordinator.
A new website — www.cmp.psu.edu — features details about the project and its artists and will include news, a blog written by Krebs and an archive. People interested in the project may also, on the website homepage, sign up to receive an email listserve featuring insider information.
The concept for the project’s marketing campaign — including its wordmark and “Get Turned on to Classical Music” slogan — came from students in Graphic Design 304: Practical Communication, a Penn State course taught by Professor Kristin Sommese.
“It’s an edgier campaign geared toward students,” Krebs said. “The website itself is a great place to find out what’s going on with Classical Music Project, and things will be very fresh and updated. The blog won’t be your typical blog. I may write about events as they come up, something happening in classical music or have imbedded images and podcasts.”
A residency by Toronto’s Opera Atelier, Canada’s leading Baroque opera company, is the centerpiece of the project’s second season. Opera Atelier performs Mozart’s The Magic Flute, accompanied by Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, on Thursday, April 18, at Eisenhower Auditorium.
Tafelmusik, also from Toronto, performs House of Dreams, a program pairing Baroque music, projected images of period paintings and narration on Wednesday, April 16, at Schwab Auditorium. “House of Dreams … is much more than a concert,” wrote a Toronto Star critic. “It … transcends its many components to create a special, all-encompassing experience that makes one forget time and place for two bliss-filled hours.”
The schedule also includes the second part of a three-season presentation of the Beethoven string quartets. The St. Lawrence and Brentano string quartets return to Schwab to play Beethoven masterworks on Wednesday, Nov. 14, and Wednesday, Feb. 27, respectively.
Germany’s Beethoven Orchestra Bonn, conducted by Stefan Blunier and joined by Canadian pianist Louis Lortie, performs on Tuesday, March 12, at Eisenhower. The all-Beethoven program includes the Symphony No. 5 and Piano Concerto No. 5.
Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio performs on Wednesday, Oct. 3, at Schwab with a program featuring André Previn’s Piano Trio No. 2, a new work co-commissioned by the Center for the Performing Arts, plus Beethoven’s Piano Trio in B-flat, Brahms’ Piano Trio No. 1 (Revised) and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s 1987 composition Trio.
The heavenly vocal blend of Anonymous 4 fills Pasquerilla Spiritual Center on Tuesday, Oct. 23. The women of Anonymous 4 celebrate the ensemble’s 25th anniversary with a concert of ancient, traditional and modern chants and hymns as part of its Anthology 25 program.
In Shuffle.Play.Listen, pianist Christopher O’Riley and cellist Matt Haimovitz weave in and out of classical and pop genres. The Friday, Jan. 18, program at Schwab includes the likes of Johann Sebastian Bach, Giovanni Gabrieli, Astor Piazzolla, Igor Stravinsky, Radiohead and Arcade Fire.
Learn more about the project at www.cmp.psu.edu. Tickets for all Center for the Performing Arts 2012–2013 music, theater and dance presentations are on sale May 16 to center members, May 21 to last-season Choice series subscribers and June 4 to the general public. For ticket information, visit www.cpa.psu.edu or phone 814-863-0255.
A list of Center for the Performing Arts 2012–2013 Classical Music Project presentations follows.
Artists, programs, dates and times are subject to change.
Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio
7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 3
Schwab Auditorium
Anonymous 4
Anthology 25
7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 23
Pasquerilla Spiritual Center
St. Lawrence String Quartet
7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 14
Schwab Auditorium
Christopher O’Riley, pianist and Matt Haimovitz, cellist
Shuffle.Play.Listen
7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 18
Schwab Auditorium
Brentano String Quartet
7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 27
Schwab Auditorium
Beethoven Orchestra Bonn
Stefan Blunier, music director and conductor Louis Lortie, pianist
7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 12
Eisenhower Auditorium
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra
House of Dreams
7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 16
Schwab Auditorium
Opera Atelier
Mozart’s The Magic Flute
7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 18
Eisenhower Auditorium
Mother's Day at Carnegie Inn & Spa
Because mothers deserve the best!
This Mother's Day show her just how much you appreciate her! Dine at the Carnegie Inn & Spa with this delicious a la carte menu beginning at noon.
Penn State Golf Courses Community Day!!!
NEW Date: Sunday, April 29th from 1:00-4:00PM
New to the game of golf? Seasoned golfer looking to get a few pointers? Looking to do something fun with the family? We encourage any level of golfer to come out and participate in our FREE Community Golf Day at the Penn State Golf Courses. Our PGA Golf Professionals will be available and located at different stations to help you with your Short-Game, Full-Swing Fundamentals, Mini-Golf Course, and custom-club fitting. Stop out anytime between 1-4PM, no need to pre-register. We look forward to seeing you!
Family Golf Nights: Sunday-Thursday After 6PM, ONLY $1 per hole, per person! Bring the family out to play on the Blue Golf Course. Good for families with at least one Junior Golfer in the group. For more details please EMAIL.
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