Contact: Kay Fike Jones
Steel band performances, percussion ensemble concerts and individual recitals highlight a special Saturday [March 18] assembly at Mississippi State University.
The 8 a.m.-6 p.m. "Day of Percussion" in the McComas Hall theater is sponsored by the Mississippi chapter of the Percussive Arts Society, in cooperation with the MSU music education department.
Admission is $15, both for participants and interested members of the general public. Tickets may be purchased at the door.
Joining MSU student musicians will be their counterparts from Delta State University, Holmes Community and Jones County Junior colleges, Mississippi College, universities of Mississippi and Southern Mississippi, as well as area high schools.
Leading the activities will be clinicians B. Michael Williams, hand drums; Linda Maxey, marimba; and John Wooton, drums.
Williams teaches at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, S.C., and directs the Winthrop Percussion Ensemble. Maxey, a Lawrence, Kan., resident, regularly performs at community concert series across the country. Wooton is a percussion instructor at USM.
Maxey also will be guest soloist for a 2 p.m. performance of Ney Rosauro's "Concerto for Marimba and Percussion Ensemble" with the MSU Percussion Ensemble. Associate professor Robert J. Damm directs the ensemble.