Contact: Bethany Shipp

STARKVILLE, Miss.—The Starkville-MSU Community Band will present its first concert of the year on March 3.

Including Mississippi State faculty, staff and students, and Golden Triangle residents, the band will perform at 2 p.m. in the Kent Sills Band Hall, located at 72 Hardy Road on MSU’s campus. Admission is free and open to the public.

The program will begin with Aaron Copeland’s iconic “Fanfare for the Common Man” followed by Jay Dawson’s lighthearted “Fanfare, Mules, and Roosters.” The program also will feature a tribute to composer Robert W. Smith with his musical description of the Vietnam War titled “Mekong” and his composition “Vespers of Light.” The concert will conclude with Mississippi composer Ayatey Shabazz’s “Of Honor and Valor Eternal.”

The community band is directed by Johnny Folsom, a lecturer and supervisor for student interns in MSU’s Department of Music.

Learn more about the Department of Music, housed in MSU’s College of Education, at www.music.msstate.edu.

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