Starkville-MSU Community Band closes fall season with free patriotic, holiday concert
Contact: Bethany Shipp
STARKVILLE, Miss.—The Starkville-MSU Community Band presents its final concert of the fall season Nov. 22, featuring holiday and patriotic arrangements.
The free, public performance takes place at 2 p.m. in Mississippi State’s Kent Sills Band Hall, 72 Hardy Road.
Led by Band Director Johnny Folsom, the concert salutes the nation’s 250th anniversary, opening with Mississippi composer Joseph Benjamin Earp’s “Red, White and Blue” and ending with John Philip Sousa’s “The Stars and Stripes Forever.”
The performance also celebrates the upcoming holiday season with Alfred Reed’s arrangement of “Greensleeves,” Robert W. Smith’s arrangement of Leroy Anderson’s “A Christmas Festival,” and “Three Songs for Christmas” by Clare Grundman.
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.
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