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Music > Events Calendar

Events Calendar

Department of Music

Millsaps College is proud to present a wealth of music events each semester. Concerts from the Millsaps Singers and Chamber Singers, and recitals by faculty and student musicians, as well as special performances from artists both local and world-renowned, make each season exciting, informative, and entertaining. All events are open to the public except as noted. The Events Calendar may be subject to change. View campus map: Academic Complex Recital Hall (16) (PDF) to locate our venue for music events on campus.

2011-12 Season

Monday, September 12, 2011 
Music Student Performance: Departmental Recital
3:00 p.m. - Gertrude Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall
Music students present a variety of vocal, piano, organ and instrumental music from baroque, classical, romantic and contemporary periods.
Free admission

Tuesday, September 20, 2011   
The Imaginary Museum I - Schumann: Davisbündlertänze.
7:30 p.m. - Gertrude Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall
Lynn Raley, piano. The Imaginary Museum is a series of one-hour concerts featuring one significant work, with commentary. Embracing of the idea that a musical work belongs in a "museum," a place to contemplate and study one masterpiece at a time.

Monday, September 26, 2011
Music Faculty Showcase
7:30 p.m. - Gertrude Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall
Faculty members and teaching artists of the Millsaps College Department of Music collaborate in a showcase of vocal, piano, organ and instrumental music.
Free admission

Friday, September 30, 2011
Verdi and Wagner: Songs, Scenes & Ensembles
7:30 p.m.- Gertrude Ford C. Ford Acadmeic Complex
Music from La Traviata, Rigoletto, Otello, Die Meistersanger, Un Ballo In Maschera & more!

Monday, October 3, 2011 
Music Student Performance: Departmental Recital
3:00 p.m. - Gertrude Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall
Music students present a variety of vocal, piano, organ and instrumental music from baroque, classical, romantic and contemporary periods.
Free admission

Friday, October 7, 2011
Millsaps Singers: Fall Concert "Voices and Strings"
7:30 p.m. - Gertrude Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall
Singers present their fall choral concert, conducted by Dr. Timothy Coker. This concert will present significant choral music composed for chorus and string orchestra. Featured works are Mass in G Major by Franz Schubert, "Cantique" by Gabriel Fauré, "Happy Shore" by Randall Thompson, and Triptych by Tarik O'Regan. 
Free admission, with suggested donation: $10 Adults / $5 Students

Friday, October 28, 2011     
The Imaginary Museum II - Adams: Phrygian Gates.
7:30 p.m. - Gertrude Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall
Lynn Raley, piano. The Imaginary Museum is a series of one-hour concerts featuring one significant work, with commentary. Embracing of the idea that a musical work belongs in a "museum," a place to contemplate and study one masterpiece at a time.

Monday, November 7, 2011 
Music Student Performance: Departmental Recital
3:00 p.m. - Gertrude Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall
Music students present a variety of vocal, piano, organ and instrumental music from baroque, classical, romantic and contemporary periods.
Free admission

Thursday, November 17, 2011
The Imaginary Museum III - Brahms: Sonata No. 3. Op. 5.
7:30 p.m. - Gertrude Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall
Lynn Raley, piano. The Imaginary Museum is a series of one-hour concerts featuring one significant work, with commentary. Embracing of the idea that a musical work belongs in a "museum," a place to contemplate and study one masterpiece at a time. 

Monday, November 21, 2011     
Faculty Recital: Rachel Heard
7:30 p.m. - St Philips' Episcopal Church, 5400 Old Canton Rd, Jackson.
Rachel Heard, fortepiano. Dr. Heard presents works from her newest recordings for the NAXOS label. Music for fortepiano by Haydn and J.C. Bach.

Monday, November 28, 2011 
Music Student Performance: Departmental Recital
3:00 p.m. - Gertrude Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall
Music students present a variety of vocal, piano, organ and instrumental music from baroque, classical, romantic and contemporary periods.
Free admission

Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Millsaps Singers & Campus Ministry Team: Advent Lessons and Carols Service 
12:00 noon - Gertrude Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall
Singers continue the College's annual Advent tradition with the 27th service of lessons and carols designed to usher in the Christian Year. The public is welcome.
Free admission

Friday, December 2, 2011
Millsaps Singers: Christmas Carol Concert "Gloria in excelsis"
7:30 p.m. - Gertrude Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall
Singers present their annual Christmas Carol choral concert, conducted by Dr. Timothy Coker. The concert will feature Vivaldi's strong, popular setting of the traditional Latin text with orchestra and student soloists.
Free admission, with suggested donation: $10 Adults / $5 Students

Monday, February 6, 2012
Music Student Performance: Departmental Recital
3:00 p.m. - Gertrude Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall
Music students present a variety of vocal, piano, organ and instrumental music from baroque, classical, romantic and contemporary periods.
Free admission

February, 2012
Junior Recitals
Gertrude Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall
Junior students present music from baroque, classical, romantic and contemporary periods. Call (601) 974-1422 for dates and performers.
Free admission

Monday, March 5, 2012
Music Student Performance: Departmental Recital
3:00 p.m. - Gertrude Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall
Music students present a variety of vocal, piano, organ and instrumental music from baroque, classical, romantic and contemporary periods.
Free admission

Saturday, March 31, 2012
Millsaps Singers at MSO Bravo V Concert: Ode to Joy 
7:30 p.m. - Thalia Mara Hall, 255 E. Pascagoula Street, downtown Jackson
Millsaps Singers team with other choirs to sing the finale to Beethoven's immortal Symphony No. 9 for the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra's Bravo V concert.  Please note this concert is off-campus. 
For tickets, contact MSO at http://www.msorchestra.com or (601) 960-1565.

Monday, April 2, 2012
Music Student Performance: Departmental Recital
3:00 p.m. - Gertrude Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall
Music students present a variety of vocal, piano, organ and instrumental music from baroque, classical, romantic and contemporary periods.
Free admission

April, 2012
Senior Recitals
Gertrude Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall
Senior students present music from baroque, classical, romantic and contemporary periods. Call (601) 974-1422 for dates and performers.
Free admission

Friday, April 20, 2012
Millsaps Singers: Spring Concert "More Amor"
7:30 p.m. - Gertrude Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall
Singers present their spring choral concert, conducted by Dr. Timothy Coker. Brahms' sparkling miniatures of the Op. 52 "Liebeslieder Waltzes" form the center of this concert of music for chorus and piano. Our natural romantic inclinations in the Spring will be explored.
Free admission, with suggested donation: $10 Adults / $5 Students

Bell Piano Series

View campus map: Academic Complex Recital Hall (16) (PDF)

For more information call us at (601) 974-1422.