MSU’s Department of Music announces fall concert season
Contact: Bethany Shipp
STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State’s Department of Music offers an array of concerts this fall, featuring Mississippi blues legend Jesse Robinson to the university choirs and Wind Ensemble.
Select events are ticketed to support programming, specific honorariums and technical and academic services. For box office information for each event, visit www.music.msstate.edu.
The fall lineup includes:
—Aug. 30, 3 p.m., Backpack Meals Benefit Concert featuring Jason Baker, percussion, Recital Hall, Music Building, free
—Sept. 3, 7:30 p.m., Jesse Robinson and The Hip Waders Band, “Echoes from the Delta,” Recital Hall, Music Building, free
—Sept. 19, 7:30 p.m., “In the Silence of the Night: The Final Songs of Rachmaninoff” featuring Amy Catron, cello, and Vanessa Muen Wei, piano, Recital Hall, Music Building, free
—Sept. 21, 7:30 p.m., “Poetry Transfigured: Seven Romances on Poems” by Alexander Blok, Op. 127 featuring Roza Tulyaganova, soprano; Anne Gaëlle Ravetto, violin; Amy Catron, cello; and Sophie Wang, piano; Recital Hall, Music Building, free
—Sept. 24, 7:30 p.m., Wind Ensemble and State Singers, “Celebrations,” and Music Hall of Fame, Bettersworth Auditorium, Lee Hall, free
—Oct. 4, 2 p.m., MSU Symphony Orchestra and Philharmonia, “Origins and Storytelling,” Bettersworth Auditorium, Lee Hall, ticketed
—Oct. 18, 2 p.m., Community Band, fall concert, Kent Sills Band Hall, free
—Nov. 3, 7 p.m., Choirs, “New Beginnings” featuring Lyrica and Cantaré, First Baptist Church of Starkville, ticketed
—Nov. 5, 7:30 p.m., Wind Ensemble, “Visions in Sound,” Bettersworth Auditorium, Lee Hall, free
—Nov. 10 and 12, 7:30 p.m., Opera, “The Enchanted Forest: A Trial of Love,” Recital Hall, Music Building, ticketed
—Nov. 20, 7:30 p.m., Jazz Ensemble, fall concert, Recital Hall, Music Building, free
—Dec. 5, 7:30 p.m., Starkville-MSU Symphony Orchestra, “Christmas Fanfares” featuring Starkville Symphony Chorus, First Baptist Church of Starkville, ticketed
Additionally, football fans can enjoy halftime performances by MSU’s Famous Maroon Band, made up of more than 400 members from every college on campus.
A complete listing of the Department of Music’s fall events is available at www.music.msstate.edu.
Designated as an All-Steinway School, MSU’s Department of Music is housed in a $21 million, state-of-the-art facility equipped with sound-proof practice rooms, a high-tech recording studio, an acoustically advanced lecture-recital hall, more than $3.5 million in Steinway pianos and more.
MSU’s College of Education, home of the Department of Music, also includes four additional academic departments, a division of education, one research unit and numerous service units. Learn more at www.educ.msstate.edu.
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