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Presenting back-to-back special symphonic ensemble concerts
The Wind Symphony’s “March Forth!” recognizes healthcare workers while the Symphony Orchestra’s annual “Honors Concert” shines the spotlight on student instrumentalists.
In back-to-back evenings in the Cobb Great Hall of the Wharton Center for Performing Arts, Michigan State University symphonic ensembles will honor healthcare workers and students who earned high musical honors. First, the MSU Wind Symphony presents “March Forth” on Thursday, March 24, at 7:30 p.m., followed by the MSU Symphony Orchestra and its annual “Honors Concert” on Friday, March 25, at 8:00 p.m.
A concert of rhythmic inspired repertoire, “March Forth!” will be conducted by MSU Professor of Music and Director of Bands Kevin Sedatole. He will lead a wind arrangement of Summon the Heroes by John Williams, part of a special tribute to healthcare workers who have provided direct care throughout the pandemic. Thanks to the generous support of concert sponsors MSU AgeAlive and an anonymous donor, more than 200 of those honored direct care workers will be attending the concert. The program also includes tempo-driven works for brass and wind that present two favorites by J.P. Sousa, Beethoven’s March in F, and high-energy, dramatic works by Berlioz, Grainger, Holst, Turina, Hindemith, Fillmore, and Tchaikovsky. Click here for tickets to this event.
MSU Associate Professor of Music and Director of Orchestras Octavio Más-Arocas will lead the annual “Honors Concert” that features Ottorino Respighi’s Church Windows, and top student musicians from the MSU College of Music soloing with the Symphony Orchestra. Featured instrumentalists are clarinetist Tiago Carvalho Silva performing Carl Nielsen’s Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra, pianist Sin Yee Yap performing Sergei Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Major, and percussionist Noah Mallet performing Keiko Abe’s Prism Rhapsody for Marimba and Orchestra. Click here for tickets to this event.
General Admission seating tickets for each of these concerts are $12 for adults, $10 for seniors (age 60 and older), and free for students with an ID or under 18. Information on this and other concerts, recitals and performances can be found on the MSU College of Music website. Please note: As of March 6, the university will no longer require patrons to wear masks and show proof of COVID-19 vaccination or a negative test to attend events hosted by the College of Music.
Other ways to watch
If you are unable to come to the venue, you can watch these concerts on the MSU College of Music’s Livestream Channel.
