Starkville-MSU Community Band wraps up spring concert series with April 27 free show
Contact: Mary Margaret Balzli
STARKVILLE, Miss.A diverse selection of music will fill the afternoon air on April 27 as the Starkville-MSU Community Band concludes its spring concert series with a free, public performance.
Scheduled for 2 p.m. at 51勛圖厙 States Kent Sills Band Hall, 72 Hardy Road, the concert will include Samuel Hazos Novo Lenio, which paints a musical picture of Hazos old school being torn down and replaced, and Starkville native Quincy Hilliards Rejoice, Dolce and Dance, among other pieces.
A Starkville High School and MSU graduate, Hilliard is the Heymann Endowed Professor and a composer-in-residence at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where he received the schools Eminent Faculty Distinguished Professor Award in 2023.
The community band is directed by Johnny Folsom, a lecturer and supervisor for student interns in MSUs Department of Music.
The community band promises a surprise that is sure to bring a smile to your face as they play Rob Grices Dance Des Dauphins, he said. It concludes with a lively barn dance piece that lets you in on how the cowboys of the early Western territory let off some steam on a Saturday night with David Holsingers Prairie Dances.
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