International Programs

The Oregon State University Chamber Choir, directed by Steven M. Zielke, will finish its performance season with the fourth annual President’s Concert on Saturday, June 7, at 7:30 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church, 1165 N.W. Monroe St., Corvallis....Just days after this performance, the choir will leave for Germany, where it will perform seven concerts over 10 days in cities including Stuttgart, Freiburg, and Tübingen. The Chamber Choir will appear on the Friday Church Music Series at the Evangelische Stiftskirche of Stuttgart and perform at a gala concert commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Oregon–Baden Württemberg academic exchange program.

A University of Pennsylvania scholar will give a free public lecture on May 19 at Oregon State University, during which she will compare the historic bathing practices of Americans and Europeans.
This third lecture in OSU’s 2007-08 American Culture & Politics series, titled "Civilizing Bodies in the Early Atlantic and Antebellum United States," will be given by Kathleen Brown. It begins at 4 p.m. in Memorial Union Room 208.

Oregon State University will observe Holocaust Memorial Week April
28 to May 1 with a series of events that includes an appearance by a
Holocaust survivor who was part of the historic Jewish uprising at the
Sobibor extermination camp in Poland. This 22nd annual OSU observance also will include a look at another historic event, the Armenian genocide of 1915-16.

OSU percussionist Bob Brudvig is leading a five-person ensemble in a practice session on the second floor of historic Benton Hall. It may be winter in Corvallis, but the music makes you forget the drizzle outside. It evokes palm trees, Caribbean sun and pre-Lenten carnivals. Brudvig works the melody on his chrome-plated steel drum, tapping out notes in rapid succession to an arrangement of "Gimme de Ting" by Trinidadian calypso legend Lord Kitchener. The group sometimes known as Dr. Bob’s Steel Drum Extravaganza, according to Sam Kincaid, band member and recording specialist in the OSU music department, has been bringing its energetic sound to Willamette Valley performance stages, weddings and other events for the past two years. Its repertoire emphasizes calypso and soca (an up-tempo dance form developed from calypso), traditions from Trinidad where its signature instrument, the steel drum or pan, was born.