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Thursday, April 11 Georgia College & State University’s Music Theatre Scenes class will present “Revolutions,” at 7:30 p.m. in the Russell Auditorium. Dr. Dana Gorzelany-Mostak will direct the cast of 22 student performers with Dr. Hue Jang on piano. Two students, Tyler Harris and Hallie Thompson, act as assistant directors. The concert features poignant and comical tunes from favorite musicals like “Do You Hear the People Sing?” in Les Misérables; “Matchmaker” in Fiddler on the Roof;...

This is canceled.

Saturday, April 6 GCSU’s three choral ensembles will present a combined concert at 7:30 p.m. in First Baptist Church, 330 S. Liberty Street. “Choral Billboard Top Hits” will feature choral selections from standard repertoire frequently performed by choirs around the world. The works, which span four hundred years, are by noteworthy composers like William Byrd, George Frideric Handel, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Joseph Haydn, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Amy Marcy Cheney Beach, Daniel...

Thursday, April 4 A lecture and concert, “Cultural Diplomacy and Music,” featuring Georgia College & State University’s Martha Daniel Newell Visiting Scholar, musicologist and pianist Dr. Evren Kutlay, will be at 7:30 p.m. in Max Noah Recital Hall. Kutlay will present the role of diplomacy in music throughout the centuries. Dr. Kutlay will perform solo piano for most of the program, but will also be joined by the GCSU Orchestra, violinist Bryan Hall,  the Max Noah Singers select ensemble,...

Tuesday, April 2 At 7:30 p.m. in Max Noah Recital at Georgia College & State University, guest artist and tenor Dr. Jonathan Yarrington will perform Franz Schubert’s “Die schöne Müllerin.” Faculty pianist Owen Lovell will accompany Yarrington for this rare and complete performance of Schubert’s iconic song cycle written in 1823 at the end of the Viennese classical era. The concert title translates into “the Fair Maid of the Mill,” based on 20 poems by the German poet Wilhelm Müller...