Starkville-MSU Symphony Association
March 2008

The Starkville-MSU Symphony Association will present its final concert of the 2007-2008 Season with A Bohemian Rhapsody performed by the Symphony Orchestra in Lee Hall on the campus of Mississippi State University on Saturday evening, April 12th at 7:30 pm under the baton of Michael Brown, music director of the SSO.

The concert will feature the compositions of two famous composers of Bohemia, Antonin Dvorak and Bedrich Smetena. The concert will open with the tone poem The Moldau by Smetena that is a work that musically describes the great river in what is now the Czech Republic featuring river sounds and describing scenes along the banks as the river makes its way to the sea. Joining with the Orchestra to perform Dvorak’s Te Deum will be the 150+ member Mississippi State University Concert Choir. This work will be conducted by J. Bruce Lesley, Director of Choral Activities at MSU, and will feature the solo voices of Iwao Asakura and Jan Grissom, both members of the MSU music faculty. The second half of the program will consist of Dvorak’s much beloved New World Symphony written by the composer while he was teaching in Iowa at the end of the 19th century. An additional special treat for the evening will be an aria from La Boehm for soprano and orchestra performed by the MSU Concerto/Aria competition first runner-up, Bonnie Wimmer, who recently delighted the audience at the Symphony Association fund raiser, A Chocolate Affair. Guest conductor for this work will be principal clarinetist and MSU faculty member, Sheri Falcone. The concert is open to the public, free of charge.


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