Starkville-MSU Community Band closes fall concert series with free Sunday [Nov. 23] performance

Contact: Bethany Shipp

STARKVILLE, Miss.—The Starkville-MSU Community Band wraps up its fall concert series with a free, public performance Sunday [Nov. 23].

The concert takes place at 2 p.m. in the Kent Sills Band Hall, 72 Hardy Road, at Mississippi State.

Director Johnny Folsom said the concert will open with a Spanish march, “El Relicario,” followed by Samuel Hazo’s “In Heaven’s Air” and “Promenade and Great Gate of Kiev” from “Pictures at an Exhibition.”

The performance also will feature holiday music, including “Jingle Bells Alive,” a jazzy rendition of “Jingle Bells” by Starkville native Quincy Hilliard’s son Alex. The program will close with an arrangement of “Carol of the Bells.”

A Starkville High School and MSU graduate, Quincy Hilliard is the Heymann Endowed Professor and a composer in residence at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and an MSU Department of Music Hall of Fame honoree.

“We are excited that Dr. Hilliard and Alex will be able to join us for the concert and hear Alex’s piece played for the first time,” Folsom said. “It is sure to be an enjoyable program.”

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 https://www.educ.msstate.edu.

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