Starkville-MSU Community Band opens spring season with March 1 concert

The Starkville-MSU Community Band performs. — The Starkville-MSU Community Band opens its spring concert series with a free, public performance March 1 at 2 p.m. on Mississippi State’s campus. (Photo submitted)

STARKVILLE, Miss.—The Starkville-MSU Community Band presents its first concert of the spring season March 1.

The free, public performance takes place at 2 p.m. in Mississippi State’s Kent Sills Band Hall, 72 Hardy Road.

Band Director Johnny Folsom said the concert opens with “The Thunderer” march by John Philip Sousa, followed by Larry Daehn’s “With Quiet Courage.” Other selections include “Double Agent,” a composition reminiscent of spies working undercover by local writer Carlos J. Kemp; “Perthshire Majesty,” a Scottish work by Samuel Hazo; and concluding with Charles Carter’s “Overture for Winds.”

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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Starkville-MSU Community Band opens spring season with March 1 concert

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