A new $1 million endowment created by the Kay Hardesty Logan Foundation will ensure the continuation of Music at Noon in perpetuity.
A new $1 million endowment created by the Kay Hardesty Logan Foundation will ensure the continuation of Music at Noon in perpetuity. The series makes concert-level chamber music accessible to audiences through informal lunchtime performances at Penn State Behrend.
It began in 1989 with a gift from Kay Logan, a musician, educator and arts advocate. Logan, who was the principal flutist with the Columbus Symphony for twenty years, died in 2016.
“For thirty-four years, Music at Noon has introduced Behrend students and countless others in the community to world-class chamber music through informal, interactive performances that strip the mystique away from the genre,” Chancellor Ralph Ford said. “We are grateful for this support from the Kay Hardesty Logan Foundation, which will enable the Logan Series to continue in perpetuity.”
Music at Noon concerts are open to the public at no charge. A portion of the seating in McGarvey Commons is always reserved for students from Erie’s Diehl Elementary School. Performers who have included Grammy Award-winners ETHEL, the Harlem Quartet, and the Turtle Island Quartet, also stage one-day residencies at Diehl and sit in with music classes at Behrend.