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Tuesday, Jan. 16 Georgia College & State University’s Department of Music opens its spring semester at 7:30 p.m. with a Faculty Chamber Recital in Max Noah Recital Hall, featuring  Steven Taylor, cello, Rebecca Cooke, clarinet, and Hue Jang, piano.  They will perform “Élégie, Op. 24” by Gabriel Fauré,  Ludwig van Beethoven’s “The Cello Sonata No. 3 in A major, Op. 69”, as well as Johannes Brahms’ “Clarinet Trio in A Minor, Op. 114.”  This concert will also be livestreamed at www.facebook.com/GCMusicDepartment...

Max Noah Singers tours middle Georgia Georgia College’s Max Noah Singers will embark on their annual tour Sunday, Dec. 17, singing holiday songs in various cities in Georgia. They will finish with a homecoming performance in Milledgeville on Dec. 20.  Five sets of songs, connected by poetry readings, include settings of traditional carols, Latin motets, and original compositions about the season. Audiences will be treated with holiday favorites like “God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen” and...

Friday, Dec. 1 Georgia College’s 16th Annual “Holiday Concert” at 7:30 p.m. in Russell Auditorium will help get you in the spirit of the season.  The entire music department, along with guest artist and violinist, David Coucheron, concertmaster of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, comes together for this uplifting tradition. Old favorites and new tunes will be performed by the Wind Symphony, String Quartet, Double Bass Quartet, Saxophone Choir, Orchestra, Women’s Ensemble, MNS Bass Quartet,...

Thursday, Nov. 16, Georgia College & State University’s Music Therapy Program and the Life Enrichment Center present “Grassroots,” a production featuring musicians with “disAbilities” and music therapy students in the Creative Expressions Performance Groups. The concert will be at 6 p.m. in New City Church at the Mill, 224 E. Walton Street, Milledgeville. This year’s theme, “Back Porch Celebration,” will take you home with great songs like Dolly Parton’s “Jolene,” Chris Stapleton’s...

Wednesday, Nov. 15, nine Georgia College & State University students will perform six scenes from different operas for the concert, “Innocence and Intrigue,” at 7:30 p.m. in Max Noah Recital Hall. Under the direction of Dr. Youngmi Kim and Camilla Packroff with pianist Lev Ryabinin, students will perform Carlisle Floyd’s “Susannah,” Douglas Moore’s “Ballad of Baby Doe,” Gian Carlo Menotti’s “Old Maid and the Thief,” Leonard Bernstein’s “Candide” and Johann Strauss’ “Die Fledermaus...