Contact: Landon Gibson

STARKVILLE, Miss.—The Starkville-MSU Symphony Association presents the Community Chorus in concert for “Classical Jazz,” an afternoon of classical music, jazz favorites and Shakespeare on Sunday, March 28, at 2 p.m. on the lawn of Starkville’s Greensboro Center.

The event is free and open to all, and those attending may bring lawn chairs, blankets and picnic baskets to celebrate the arrival of spring.

From MSU’s Department of Music, the musical program also includes:

—Conductor and lecturer Peter Infanger, accompanied at the keyboard by James Allen, a longtime Mississippi University for Women associate professor of music.

—Soloists Roza Tulyaganova, assistant professor; Garrett Torbert, instructor; and Christopher Withrow, lecturer, in Schubert’s “Mass in G Major.”

—Jeanette Fontaine, assistant professor, presenting classic jazz numbers featuring George Shearing’s “Songs and Sonnets,” using texts by William Shakespeare.

All Starkville-MSU Symphony Association concerts are subject to change based on local restrictions and COVID-19 response protocols.

The association has provided Starkville and the surrounding area with a community classical music experience throughout its 51-year history. Talents of musicians from MSU, Starkville and the surrounding communities are showcased each year—along with guest musicians from across the state.

For more information about the Starkville-MSU Symphony Association, visit www.starkvillesymphony.org.

MSU is Mississippi’s leading university, available online at www.msstate.edu.