As part of an exhibit at the Palmer Museum of Art entitled "New York Cool", Penn State University broadcast this special from the Museum's lobby. Featuring classic standards and original compositions, The New Dimension performs a set inspired by the visual and performing art from this formative era of creativity.
Sure Happy It's Tuesday by Dan Yoder
Minor Swing by Django Reinhardt
Somewhere by Leonard Bernstein arr. Brubeck
Solstice by Steven Hopkins
Petite Fleur by Sidney Bechet
Strollin' by Horace Silver
Missing Tooth by Dan Yoder
There Is No Greater Love by Isham Jones
“Jazz combo featured on WPSU’s “Music from Penn State”
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. (February 12, 2009) — Tune into WPSU-TV on Thursday for the start of another acclaimed season of “Music from Penn State.” The program features a variety of musical styles and “Dan Yoder and the New Dimension” kicks things off with an evening of “cool jazz” on Penn State Public Television. “Music from Penn State” airs at 9 p.m. Thursday and repeats at 7 p.m. Sunday on WPSU-TV.
The jazz combo is made up of Penn State faculty and graduate students, including Dan Yoder, director of Jazz Studies, on saxophone; Mac Himes on guitar; Adam Kurland at piano; Ron Lange on bass; and Charlie Heim on drums.
The “Music from Penn State” series, now entering its third season, showcases the musical talent of Penn State’s School of Music.”