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Thursday, Oct. 10 Georgia College & State University presents “Music Department Showcase Recital” at 7:30 p.m. in Magnolia Ballroom at the Student Activities Center. This is a new, student-focused concert with plans to make it an annual event. It features undergraduate music majors and minors who want to challenge themselves to perform early in their college years. Singers, instrumentalists and small ensembles will stage art music from the United States, Spain and France. A reception...

Tuesday, Oct. 8 Georgia College & State University welcomes guest artist and pianist Silvan Negrutiu for “Sacred & Profane” at 7:30 p.m. in Max Noah Recital Hall. Negrutiu is an associate professor in the Kitt School of Music at Northern Arizona University. According to Clipa Magazine: “Silvan Negrutiu displays a very special, rare quality: he knows how to build structures from sound, dislocating the air, eliminating emptiness, evil, and inoperable space.” The concert will include...

Sunday, Oct. 6 Members of the Flute & Saxophone Studios at Georgia College & State University will give a 3 p.m. performance of solos and chamber music in Max Noah Recital Hall. Eclectic sounds from the classical period to present day will be featured. This concert will also be livestreamed at www.facebook.com/GCMusicDepartment. A $5 donation is encouraged. Online donations can be made at give.gcsu.edu/g/department-of-music/. All proceeds benefit music scholarships or the GCSU Department...

Sunday, Sept. 29 “Old and New Works for Prepared Piano” is the theme of Georgia College & State University’s studio recital at 3 p.m. in Magnolia Ballroom at the Student Activities Center. Piano majors, music minors and other GCSU students will perform short compositions, about 3 minutes each. The recital features work by experimental composer John Cage and others for prepared piano. By ‘preparing’ pianos with things like nuts, bolts, screws, rubber and plastic, the sound can be completely...

Wednesday, Sept. 25 A concert for saxophone and mixed media, “Of Dreams and Nightmares,” will be at 7:30 p.m. in Max Noah Recital Hall at Georgia College & State University. Guest artist saxophonist Paula Van Goes of Atlanta will perform nine compositions, taking listeners “through a night of insomnia.” This begins with a blend of euphoric exhaustion in Alex Temple’s “This Changes Everything” and Marc Mellits’ calming “Mara’s Lullaby” to the graveyard feeling of Jacob TV’s “Garden...