The Starkville/MSU Symphony Orchestra will start the year with its first concert. It will begin at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in Mississippi State’s Lee Hall Auditorium.
The concert will feature music for wind instruments beginning with the charming Seven Dances by Jean Francaix. Also included will be music by a young Richard Strauss, Suite in B-Flat for Winds followed by the delightful Petite Symphonie. This later was written by Charles Gounod in the classical four movement work in 1885, and scored for a wind ensemble of nine players. The concert will close with a winds version of Antonin Dvorak’s familiar Slavonic Dances.
COVID guidelines will be followed. MSU continues mask requirement on campus until Feb. 1 .
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