Starkville-MSU Community Band closes spring season with April 26 concert
Contact: Bethany Shipp
STARKVILLE, Miss.—The Starkville-MSU Community Band presents its final concert of the spring season April 26.
The free, public performance takes place Sunday at 2 p.m. in Mississippi State’s Kent Sills Band Hall, 72 Hardy Road.
Band Director Johnny Folsom said the concert will open with Karl King’s “Big Four March” and features “Valzer,” a work by Starkville’s own Carlos Kemp. Other selections include a compilation of five hit songs by Ray Charles, Claude Smith’s “Anthem for Winds and Percussion” and James Swearingen’s arrangement of Jean Sibelius’ hymn “Be Still, My Soul.”
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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