Start Your Holiday Celebrations with MSO's Holiday Show

There is no better experience to start the season than with the sights, sounds,  scents, textures and flavors  of the Holidays!

The MSO Holiday Show will have it all this coming Saturday afternoon at 4 p.m. in Emens Auditorium.

Enjoy  the Ball State University holiday decorations of  as you approach Emens Auditorium.  Once inside the warmth of the season will embrace you with the festive decorations of Emens Lobby.  Family and individual portraits are offered courtesy of Murray's Jewelers before the concert.  Give us your happy holiday smiles then download the free portrait from www.munciesymphony.org.

Nutcracker

The concert offers an fun, eclectic mix of music and performers from high energy singing by the Ball State University Glee Club and dancing of the Nutcracker by the Ball State Dancers to an  intimate duet "Baby It's Cold Outside", to Anderson's "Suite of Carols" featuring the brass, strings and woodwinds of the Muncie Symphony Orchestra.

Baby It's Cold Outside

Holidays are rich with flavors, too!  So, come to the Williams Lounge during
intermission and taste yummy cookies and lemonade.
Santa will be in Emens Lobby at intermission with candy canes for the children.

March of the Toys

 Imagine yourself a in the "March of the Toys" at the MSO Instrument Petting Zoo.
You can play instruments in Emens Lobby before the concert and at intermission.

The Little Drummer Boy

And no holiday is complete without Carols!

Charlie Brown's Christmas

Join Andrew Crow, Muncie Symphony Orchestra, Ball State Dancers and Ball State
University Singers Glee Club on Saturday, December 1st at 4 p.m. in Emens Auditorium to
kick off the Holidays.

Andrew Crow, guest conductor

Tickets are available at Emens Box Office and Ticketmaster.  Children K-12 and younger are admitted free.

Muncie Symphony is on

SPOTIFY

To listen to the Holiday Concert Playlist (a collection of tunes on the Holiday program) on Spotify, type "spotify:user:munciesymphony" in the spotify app search box. You can download the spotify app here.

Music IS Language ~ Come HEAR for yourself!

Language has been around for millenniums, and it is more than
the sound produced by human vocal folds.

Language is communication in many forms. Some language has no sound.

Morse Code

Cuneiform

body Language

Braille

Music is language, too.

Using rhythm, tempo, and volume music can express or evoke any emotion,
create pictures, convey stories,
 change moods, and stimulate imagination and creativity.

Rhythm

It's very simply accomplished, really.

This Saturday, November 17, 
the Muncie Symphony String Quartet
will give FREE interactive performance presentations
demonstrating how music is language.

You can catch us at the Maring-Hunt branch of the Muncie Public Library at 2 p.m. and 3 p.m.

Then try your hand (or mouth) at musical language yourself.

After each presentation, string and wind instruments are 
available for you to make music-
or at least make sounds!  Music students from Ball State University will be there to 
help you coax as much from each instrument as you can.

Music on the Move's Music is Language is presented by Muncie Symphony Orchestra
in partnership with Ball State University School of Music as part of MSO's education and outreach initiatives.

We could not do this without generous support from these businesses:

     

An Imaginary Journey

Imagine . . . the music . . . . . . . taking you on an imaginary journey . . . . conjured up in your mind . . . as you listen to the dynamic range of the golden flute of Mihoko Watanbe and the Muncie Symphony Orchestra perform the World Premier of a new composition by Jody Nagel .  .    .     .      .       .        .         .

"A Swashbuckling Adventure . . . From Days of Yore".

That is just what each student in the Metal Art studio of Professor Pat Nelson did.  The myths in each part of Jody Nagel's composition, Sea Voyage in Search of a Fairy Queen, The Enchanted Castle, The Dungeon and the Beast, The Hero's Three Impossible Deeds, and The Battle for Virtue and the Celebration Feast were the inspiration for the sheet metal artwork will be on display in the lobby of Emens Auditorium for the concert this Saturday.

Metal Art by students of Pat Nelson, Professor of Art, Ball State University

       imagine a fairy Queen

Metal Art by students of Pat Nelson 

                                                              imagine a hero warrior

Metal Art by students of Pat Nelson 

                          imagine a mermaid  on a sea voyage...........

Metal Art by students of Pat Nelson

imagine an archer in a battle for virtue....................

Metal Art by students of Pat Nelson Ball State University

           imagine a beast in the dungeon

Ball State students from Pat Nelsonʼs Metals class, were challenged to design and create a figure from sheet metal that represented some of the musical characters within the concerto. The figures are mounted and displayed with a “Pied Piper” created by Pat Nelson.

Dr. Jody Nagel
Cindee Cox, photographer

Susan Athertonʼs 4th grade music students from Storer Elementary, produced an artistic representation of the 3rd movement of Nagelʼs piece, creating a large paper diagram that illustrated the dynamic range and storyline of the music within the 3rd movement. Their artwork will be on display in the lobby of Emens Auditorium for the concert.

Dr. Nagel explains music of Part 3 from

"A Swashbuckling Adventure...From Days of Yore".

 Listen Here

Muncie Symphony Orchestra

Season Finale Concert

A Swashbuckling Adventure

Bohuslav Rattay, conductor

Mihoko Watanabe, flute

A Swashbuckling Adventure...From Days of Yore

Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 in d minor op. 47

April 28, 2012

6:30 p.m. Pre-concert talk

7:30 p.m. Concert

Emens Auditorium, Ball State Universtiy

Tickets at Ticketmaster  and Emens Box Office

$18 - $30 for Adults

$5 for students and youth

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Teddy Bear Tea

DON'T FORGET TO MAKE RESERVATIONS!

285-5531

Teddy Bear Tea

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