The music series Music in the Pavilion takes place in the beautiful sixth-floor Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion in Van Pelt Library. The series showcases an array of professional and international musicians, not only performing gems from standard concert repertoires but also premiering works found only in the wealth of materials—print and manuscript—held in the Kislak Center's collections, which are concurrently exhibited in the adjacent Henry Charles Lea Library. Enriching the experience of each concert, attendees have the opportunity to hear brief lectures by eminent scholars and graduate students that will contextualize the music historically, socially, and culturally.
2018-2019 Concert Season Schedule
September 28, 2018 Musicians from Marlboro
Classical and Romantic Chamber Music
Lecture by Christopher Serkin on Marlboro History
Program pdf
November 9, 2018 Mezzosoprano Meg Bragle
An Evening with Alma Mahler
*No pre-concert talk*
Program pdf
February 15, 2019 Cello Soundings: Tom Kraines & Friends
Contemporary Music from Europe and the U.S.
6:15 Pre-concert talk by Erik Broess
Program pdf
April 5, 2019 Tempesta di Mare Chamber Players
A Tale of Two Italian Cities: Baroque Music from Venice and Naples
Program pdf
Series directors
Music Department
- Mauro Calcagno, Assoc. Professor of Music
- Mary Channen Caldwell, Asst. Professor of Music
Kislak Center and the Penn Libraries
- William Noel, Director, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts | Director, Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies
- Richard Griscom, Director of Collections & Liaison Services
- Liza Vick, Head, Otto E. Albrecht Music Library
