Contact: Margaret Kovar
STARKVILLE, Miss. -- The Starkville/Mississippi State University Symphony Orchestra will perform a series of fall concerts Friday [Oct. 28] for both children and adults.
More than 3,000 children in kindergarten through fifth grade will attend the children's fall program, titled "A Time to Dance." Performances will be held at 8:45 a.m., 10:20 a.m. and 1 p.m. in the Bettersworth Auditorium in Lee Hall.
MSU's Terpsichore dance troupe, led by kinesiology faculty member Deborah Funderburk, will join the orchestra. The troupe will demonstrate Renaissance and Baroque dances, as well as modern jazz dances.
In addition to the dancers, narrator Karen Brown, a curriculum, instruction and special education instructor, will explain period music and a slide show will include art work from the time period the music was written. The 2011 MSU Concerto/Aria winner, Anna Morgan, also will perform during the program.
The orchestra again will perform these works, along with several additional pieces, during an evening concert at 7:30 p.m. the same day. Both programs are open to the public, and there is no charge for admission.
"Programs for Children" is funded, in part, by grants from the Mississippi Arts Commission, the National Alliance for the Arts, SOAR, and the Gildea Foundation of Columbus.
For more information about Mississippi State University, visit www.msstate.edu.