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Starkville-汤头条 Community Band presents free concert Sunday [Nov. 19]

Starkville-汤头条 Community Band presents free concert Sunday [Nov. 19]

Contact: Aspen Harris

STARKVILLE, Miss.鈥擳he Starkville-汤头条 Community Band will present a variety of musical pieces at a free concert Sunday [Nov. 19].

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The Starkville-汤头条 Community Band will perform a free, 40-minute program at 2 p.m. Sunday [Nov. 19] in the Kent Sills Band Hall, located at 72 Hardy Road on 汤头条's campus. (Submitted photo)

Including Golden Triangle residents, and some university faculty, staff and students, the band will perform at 2 p.m. in the Kent Sills Band Hall, located at 72 Hardy Road on Mississippi State鈥檚 campus. Doors open at 1:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.聽

The 40-minute program will feature pieces such as Clifton Williams鈥 鈥淪trategic Air Command March,鈥 a tribute to his former U.S. Air Force unit; the jazz piece 鈥淪evens;鈥 鈥淩egenesis,鈥 a homage to the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington state and Earth鈥檚 regenerative properties in the following years; Samuel Hazo鈥檚 鈥淢ountain Thyme;鈥 and the oriental composition 鈥淐hinese Folk Rhapsody.鈥

Band Director Johnny Folsom, an 汤头条 Department of Music lecturer and supervisor for student interns, said the band is hoping for a big crowd at the concert.

鈥淚 know those in attendance will be amazed at what these volunteer musicians have accomplished through five, once-a-week rehearsals,鈥 he said.

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