The 2022 Penn State Trombone Labor Days

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This event will feature
The Class of 2016, Kim clark and Michael Ketner
along with Other alumni and guests:

The Class of 2016
Caleb Bohanan
Jacob Hartranft
Shaine Lepley
Kevin Lynch
Mark Pages
Bradley Snyder
Daniel Sherman
Sarah Shulbank-Smith
Nathan Zeek

Special presentations by alumni Michael Ketner ‘93, Kim Clark ‘05,
Evan Harger ‘13 and Ryan Smith ‘17

Members of the 2022 Penn State Trombone Choir

Additional Guest Artists:
Kathy Gattuso Cinatl and Steve Rudolph

Learn more about the class of 2016 here

Learn More about additional alumni and guests here


Event Schedule

Saturday evening 9/3:
-5:30 Reception for alumni and students in the Armstrong Atrium
-7:00 Open Session with alumni and students
featuring Caleb Bohanan and Mark Pages
(Recital Hall)

Sunday 9/4:
-
11:00-1:30 Open Rehearsal**
(Recital Hall and Esber Rehearsal Hall)
Coffee House Set players in Esber Rehearsal Hall

Jazz Trombones/Classical players in Recital Hall

**Possible studio photos with Holl Photography

-2:00 Alumni Session with the studio
(Recital Hall)

**Possible studio photos with Holl Photography

(Dinner Break)

-5:00-6:30 Open Dress Rehearsal
(Esber Rehearsal Hall)

-7:00 We ALL Have A Song To Sing
(Concert #1 in Esber Rehearsal Hall)

-9:00 Alumni Jam Session
with special alumni guest Ryan Smith ‘17

(Esber Rehearsal Hall)

Monday 9/5:
-10:00 -11:30 Open Rehearsal, including Grand Finale with ALL trombones with Evan Harger!!
(Recital Hall)

-11:30-12:30
Mental Performance Coaching
with Dr. Michael Ketner
of University of Pennsylvania
(Esber Rehearsal Hall)

-1:00 Put The Music First
Professor Lusk’s 69th Faculty Recital
(Recital Hall)
(Concert #2 in Recital Hall)


Concert PRograms

The opening concert, We All Have a Song To Sing
with special guest artist; Steve Rudolph, piano

Part One: Steve Rudolph with Trombones

Outside Looking In
by Michael Davis

Professor Lusk

Side by Side
by Harry Woods

with Ryan Smith

Georgia On My Mind
by Hoagy Carmichael

with Dan Sherman

Blue Monk
by Thelonious Monk

with Shaine Lepley

All above, plus Brad Snyder, perform Tommy Pederson’s Josephine

Part Two: The Coffee House Set

Jacob Hartranft, original tune, Ain’t Nothin’ Better Than You

Mark Pages, with Jacob, Dear Theodosia from Hamilton

Caleb Bohanan, Pothole by Modern Baseball

Sarah Shulbank-Smith, New Soul by Yael Naim with with friends

All the above perform Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah

Part Three: Kim Clark with
Steve Rudolph

Almost Like Being Love
by Alan Jay Lerner

What Baking Can Do
By Sara Bareilles

Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most
by Fran Landesman and
Tommy Wolf

Four
by Miles Davis

Grand Finale: James Taylor’s Lonesome Road
with all participants with Professor Lusk

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Professor Lusk’s 69th Faculty Trombone Recital program, 
Put The Music First

- Cavatine by Jaques Casterede 
Professor Lusk and Kathy Gattuso Cinatl, piano

- Living in Light
by Heather Gilligan
Kim Clark, vocalist with Professor Lusk

- Of Clowns and Dreams…
by John Harmon
Professor Lusk with Kathy Gattuso Cintal

Brief Intermission

- Sarabande from D Minor Suite for Solo Cello
by Johann Sebastian Bach
Professor Lusk

- Devil’s Waltz 
by Steven Verhelst
Professor Lusk with Brad Snyder

- Sonata No. 4 
by Giovani Battista Pergolesi 
Arr. Ralph Saurer

Professor Lusk with Dan Sherman and Michael Ketner

- Goodnight My Angel
by Billy Joel
Arr. Wesley Thompson ‘15 ‘16

Professor Lusk with Shaine Lepley, Mark Pages, Sarah Shulbank-Smith,
Jacob Hartranft and Kevin Lynch

Grand Finale: Serenity
by Ola Gjeilo
Arr. Erik Shinn ‘10
Professor Lusk with All Participants
Evan Harger ‘13, Conductor