Pop Over for Picnic and Pops!

Summer outdoor concerts are a dime a dozen.  Well, not literally.  Admission prices in the three-state area begin at $15 (Lexington) and go up . . . Symphony on the Prairie ($22), Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra ($25) to name a couple.

NOT IN MUNCIE!!  Bring the whole family, share a picnic, dance on the lawn, gaze at the clouds (no rain please!); sip a refreshing, favorite beverage.  It’s all about one last summer celebration before winding down for the school year.

Enjoy the Muncie Symphony Orchestra’s

PICNIC AND POPS

at the Summer Stage Fest at Minnetrista

Wednesday 22^nd August @ 7pm

Can’t make it to the whole concert?  That’s okay! Come when you can, leave when you must.

Now what you have been waiting for….What are you going to hear?

Richard Sowers, now in his 22^nd season music director/conductor Anderson Symphony Orchestra, will direct the MSO in an eclectic mix of old and newer favorites.  There is something for everyone.

The concert opens with the Overture from Die Fledermaus

http://youtu.be/E3T3xTxVg-c

http://ia600504.us.archive.org/23/items/StraussDieFledermaus-Overture/StraussDieFledermaus-Overture_vbr.m3u

Followed by music from Carmen

Carmen Suite No. 1 by Georges Bizet

1.    Prelude      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruiizMGuO-Q

1a.  Argonaise  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCCLiuOQF88

2.    Intermezzo  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3G_6_R2ObE

4.    Les dragons d’Alcala     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC_atQK8eNI

5.    Les Toreador  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DNGMoMNLRY

Highlights from Wicked – Schwarts/Rickets

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OvYuFF1QzI

 When I Fall in Love – Selden/Custer

Duke Ellington! – arr. Custer

Beach Boys Medley – arr. Custer

Pirates of the Caribbean – Badelt/Rickets

 

 America the Beautiful – Bates/Reed
Stars and Stripes – Sousa

Help your community & enjoy the MSO Holiday Concert
Food items will benefit Second Harvest Food Bank of East Central Indiana

Bring 10 non-perishable food items and receive 1 free ticket to the MSO Holiday concert!

or

 Anyone who brings at least 1 non-perishable food item to the MSO’s Picnic & Pops concert at Minnetrista will have a chance to be entered into a raffle to win a family pack (4 tickets) for the MSO Holiday Concert in Dec.

Find MSO and this event on facebook .

The event is brought to you by:

George and Frances Ball Foundation

Festival on the Green! Come! Have Some Fun!

Festival on the Green 

June 9th on the Ball State University Arts Terrace 

Come for the 

Harry and Janet Kitselman Fund 

Muncie Symphony Orchestra Concert  

7:00 p.m. on the Arts Terrace Lawn

Let's Go to the Movies. . . . . 

Snow White Fantasy (Churchill)

The program is packed with familiar tunes from these well-loved movies.  Can you guess which movies these songs are from?

Over The Rainbow (Arlen)

Festival Atmosphere! It's fun and it's free.

Come and add to the festival atmosphere-bring blankets, lawn chairs, picnic, and friends. Soak up the sun, peruse the picnic contest picnics, wander through the MAAC Arts Fair. 

Vote for your favorite picnic!

March of the Winkies (Stothart)

Enter your picnic. Make your own fun AND win some very cool prizes.

A Whole New World (Menken)

Picnic theme is The Movies! 

Plan your picnic around a movies theme-any movie you choose.  Have a great time planning your picnic.  Go whole hog or keep it simple. Create as much as you want to: tablescape, menu, costumes, decorate the space??

 Sunrise, Sunset (Block/Harnick)

Prizes will be given for the 

Best Menu, Best Decorations 

and People's Choice.

Flower Drum Song  (Rodgers)

Register for free prizes to be awarded throughout the evening.

Children's March (Rodgers & Hammerstein) 

               
                                

Bugler's Holiday (Anderson)

Mary Poppins Highlights (Shermann)

Gooch's Song (Hermann

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
(Williams/Doyle)

Armed Forces Salute (Lowden)

We hope you enjoy the show!


For more information go to the MSO website.

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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Standby Tickets for Romantic Hero tomorrow

We are offering STANDBY TICKETS 

 at the Sursa Box Office one hour prior to the concert. 

adults $15 (half price) and students $5  

Standby seating is based on available seating immediately before the beginning of the concert. Please purchase your standby ticket by 7:15 p.m. and be in the Mueller Lobby 10 minutes before the concert.  Standby patrons will be escorted to their seats and must be seated quickly. In the event that no seats are available for standby patrons, a full refund will be given immediately at the Sursa Box Office.

of a most URGENT nature

In just ten days, violinist Anna Vayman takes the stage for Romantic Hero! 

a Muncie Symphony Orchestra classical concert 

The concert is in the extraordinary Sursa Hall.  

Sursa Hall is a musical jewel for the entire community, blending first-rate acoustical design with musical intimacy. It is designed to foster a close connection between performers and audiences, and its acoustical tuning capabilities allow performers to adjust the hall's sound qualities to suit their individual preferences.  The cornerstone of Ball State University's Music Instruction Building  is named in honor of benefactors David and Mary Jane Sursa.  credit

Tickets to performances in 600-seat Sursa Performance Hall, sell out fast.  

Seating is general admission.

ADULTS $ 30 

Students tickets are FREE with BSU or IVY Tech Student until March 30th. 

All student tickets at the door $5

 Buy tickets at Emens Box Office or Ticketmaster.  

Shostakovich Violin Concerto No.1 Mvt.1 - Sayaka Shoji 

A pre-concert talk by Bohuslav Rattay and guests at 6:30 p.m. in Sursa Hall is free with a concert ticket.
Guests:
Peter Blume, director of the David Owsley Museum of Art
Laura Kuykendall, assistant professor of art history at Ball State University.

More detail about the MSO concert, Romantic Hero! HERE

National Model Aviation Museum and Survey Winners!

Academy of Model Aeronautics

Warm breezes and blue skies welcomed concertgoers to the Academy of Model Aeronautics National Model Aviation Museum for the final Rattanovy concert of the season Saturday evening.

NMAM Entrance

Folks were greeted with a smile and encouraged to enjoy social time together.

The Silo cash bar

 

Pre-concert social time

And, browse Muncie Symphony information

Muncie Symphony information

Tour the National Model Aviation Museum

Model Plane

Model Planes

Model Planes

 

Recreation of model plane shop

The audience listened a wonderful concert of Alec Wilder octets  and enjoyed learning a little about Alec Wilder.

Enjoying the concert

MSO concerts are all about the audience.  We want to provide what you want.  Those attending this concert were invited to complete and return a survey.  Three random winners were chosen to receive a "thank you" for participating.  

The winners!

Tamara Loveless: Aerobatic Team US Navy Blue Angles flying model kit (survey # 3)

JoAnn Gora: Aerobatic Team USAF Thunderbirds flying model kit (survey # 13)

Christy McCashland wins a pair of tickets to MSO's April 28th Classical concert (survey # 19)

Into The Wilder Blue Yonder is Saturday

Photo of Alec Wilder by Dr. William R. Ploss

Enjoy an evening of light hearted, swinging' toe

tappin' music with Muncie Symphony musicians at

the   Academy of Model Aeronautics Museum.

How could it not be fun with pieces like these

Selections of Alec Wilder* Octets… 

Click the song to hear it!

· Kindergarten Flower Pageant

· She’ll Be Seven in May

· The Children Met the Train

· It’s Silk, Feel It!

· Jack, This is My Husband

· Dance Man Buys a Farm

· Such a Tender Night

· Her Old Man Was Suspicious

· Seldom the Sun

· The Amorous Poltergeist

· Neurotic Goldfish

· Bull Fiddle in a China Shop

· Little White Samba

Join us 

March 17, 2012

7:30 p.m.

Academy of Model Aeronautics (Website)

5161 East Memorial Drive  Muncie IN 47302,
(800) 435-9262

Tickets available at the door

$25 adults

$12:50 students

Cash Bar available

*More about Alec Wilder here.

Mastercard, Visa, Discover accepted.