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Tuesday, Sept. 19 Guest Artists Lindsay Leach Sparks, flute, and Joshua K. Pifer, piano, will perform at 7:30 p.m. in Georgia College & State University’s Max Noah  Recital Hall. Faculty members at Valdosta State University, the musicians hope to depict different scenes and images through compositions they’ve chosen. Soviet composer Otar Taktakishvili wrote his “Sonata for Flute and Piano” in 1966 with repeating diatonic melodies and rhythm. Other works include American composer John...

Monday, Sept. 18 as part of Georgia College & State University’s annual “Constitution Week,” the music department will host a lively production of political campaign music with a lecture at 6 p.m. in Magnolia Ballroom. The concert, “Tunes from the Trail: A program featuring music from U.S. Presidential Campaigns, 1840-1964,” will feature well-known campaign songs like “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too,” “Modern Democracy” and “Hello Lyndon.” The lecture, “Clashing Political Values and American...

Thursday, Sept. 28 The Georgia College & State University Music Department presents The Allen Duo—an ensemble featuring saxophone and flute professors Andrew and Elise Allen with pianist Lev Ryabinin—for “Staying the Night” at 7:30 p.m. in Max Noah Recital Hall. The recital title is taken from music for flute and saxophone by contemporary composer David Biedenbender that will close the performance. Biedenbender is an associate professor at Michigan State University. This version of...

Please see below to find out more information about our choral ensembles and this year's schedule. Our choirs are one-credit courses that meet for two and a half hours per week. You do not have to be a music major or minor in order to participate. Whether you have experience singing in a choir or not, if you love to sing, please consider joining us. Students may register for the unauditioned ensembles. If you wish to audition for an ensemble, see below for details. Faculty and staff...

If you would like to audition to join the GCSU Jazz Band or the GCSU Small Group Combo, please see attached poster.  Auditions will be on Tuesday, Aug. 22, 7 p.m. or on Aug. 24, 3:30-4:45 p.m. in the McComb Building on S. Wilkerson St.    Please contact Dr. Cliff Towner to get the music needed to audition,  clifford.towner@gcsu.edu  or call the music office for more information, 478-445-8289.   The music and instructions are attached to this. The Jazz Band Class meets from 3:30-4:45 ...

Saturday, Sept. 16, the 5th Annual “Jazz at the Magnolia”—sponsored by Georgia College & State University and Allied Arts—will be at 7:30 p.m. in Magnolia Ballroom in the Student Activity Center. The GCSU Faculty Jazz Quartet and Student Jazz Combo will join guest artist and trumpeter Leonard Foy and jazz pianist Dr. Geoff Haydon, a faculty member of Georgia State University, for this rousing community concert and fundraising event. Refreshments will be offered. Tickets are $20. To...