MSU, community bands announce weekend Lee Hall concert

Contact: Robbie Ward

STARKVILLE, Miss.--In a special Sunday [Feb. 28] university concert, bands from Mississippi State and the community will perform a range of musical selections.

To begin at 3 p.m. in Lee Hall's Bettersworth Auditorium, the free program features the MSU Campus and Symphonic bands, along with the Starkville/MSU Community Band.

Cliff Taylor and Craig Aarhus, associate and assistant directors of MSU Bands, respectively, will conduct.

"The bands will play a variety of pieces from traditional to contemporary to pop," Aarhus said.

The campus band is open to all students, regardless of major, while community band members are enrolled in a course offered by the band office and MSU's Division of Academic Outreach and Continuing education.

The student symphonic band's repertoire includes a mix of wind instrumental and pop arrangements.

For more information, contact Aarhus at 662-325-2713 or caarhus@colled.msstate.edu.

For more information about Mississippi State University, see http://www.msstate.edu/.