Contact: Sammy McDavid
STARKVILLE, Miss.--"A Bohemian Rhapsody" is both title and theme for the final concert of the Starkville-Mississippi State University Symphony Orchestra's 2007-08 season.
The April 12 performance begins at 7:30 p.m. in Lee Hall auditorium. Admission is free to all.
Michael Brown, head of MSU's music department, will direct the orchestra, while Bruce Lesley, his faculty colleague and director of choral activities, leads the MSU Concert Choir. Iwao Asakura and Jan Grissom, also of the music faculty, will be featured soloists.
Musical selections for the evening will include compositions by well-known Czech composers Antonin Dvorak and Bedrich Smetana. Among them are Smetana's "the Moldau" and Dvorak's "Te Deum" and "New World Symphony."
As an added treat, Bonnie S. Wimmer of Columbus will perform an aria from "La Boehm." Among top finalists in the department-sponsored concerto/aria student competition, the senior vocal major also has been praised for her appearance in the SSO's recent fundraiser, "A Chocolate Affair."
Sheri Falcone, another faculty member and the orchestra's principal clarinetist, will be guest conductor for this part of the program.
For additional information, visit www.starkvillemsusymphony.org.
For more information about Mississippi State University, see http://www.msstate.edu/.