Contact: Kenneth Billings
STARKVILLE, Miss.--The Starkville-Mississippi State University Symphony Association kicks off its 2008-09 "Simply Sensational" performance season next month with a concert featuring some young musicians.
During the day Oct. 10 in the Lee Hall auditorium, area students in grades kindergarten-fifth grade will be treated to three performances of English composer Benjamin Britten's "A Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra." Armstrong Middle School student Emily Turner will serve as narrator.
At 7:30 p.m. in the same location, the concert will be repeated in a program free to all.
Eight-year-old Abbey FuShan Swartzendruber and Joy Linye Fan, 9, will be featured violinists in Bach's "Concerto in D Minor."
Also, Elaine Peterson, MSU assistant professor of music, will be soloist for Elgar's "Romance for Bassoon and Orchestra."
Clifton Taylor, associate director of bands, is guest conductor. His original setting of the English folk song, "The Lark in the Clear Air," will be among the selections.
Performances of the Starkville-MSU Symphony are partially funded with a $4,400 grant from the Mississippi Arts Commission.
For more information about this and other programs of the 2008-09 concert schedule, contact Joe Ray Underwood at 662-323-8969 or Ellen Boles at 324-1105.
For more information about Mississippi State University, see http://www.msstate.edu/.