610 past events with the ball state university tag

The winners of the Undergraduate Solo/Concerto Competition perform with the orchestra.

For ticket information contact: Emens Auditorium at 765-285-1539 or 1-877-99-EMENS; Ticketmaster at 1-800-745-3000. Tickets go on sale August 12, 2013.

Muncie’s very own AMERICA’S HOMETOWN BAND, “the Civic Band of Muncie”, revs up Emens Auditorium with a FREE  “Parade of Stars” concert, in conjunction with Emens 50th anniversary celebration. This concert puts the spotlight on five standout solo performers and the artwork of Ball State Professor Emeritus Ned Griner.

The standout solo performers are:

Ball State alumni and retired local physician Phil Cooley, performs Edvard Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 16. The band accompaniment for this piece is arranged by award winning Ball State composer Jody Nagel.

Ball State alumni, outstanding music educator, and xylophone soloist David Robbins performs Floyd Werle’s ragtime piece, The Golden Age of the Xylophone.

Ball State Saxophone Professor Dr. George Wolfe plays Sammy Nestico’s beautiful ballad, Persuasion.

Local trumpeters Joel Replogle and Mike White are featured in an arrangement by Donald Hunsberger,“Themes from Bizet’s opera Carmen”. Replogle is one of Muncie’s best-kept secrets: a world-class soloist who spends most of his time being a husband, father and computer geek. Mike White is known as one of Indiana’s best lead trumpeters.

Music director of America's Hometown Band is Roger McConnell.

This all-student ensemble is led by graduate and doctoral student conductors.

For ticket information contact: Emens Auditorium at 765-285-1539 or 1-877-99-EMENS; Ticketmaster at 1-800-745-3000. Tickets go on sale August 12, 2013.

The Jazz Ensembles perform with the winners of the Dimensions in Jazz High School Bands competition and with guest trumpeter and vocalist Byron Stripling. Mr. Stripling, current Director of the Columbus Jazz Orchestra, has been a featured soloist with orchestras and at jazz festivals throughout the country and the world, and has been noted by the New York Times as "...a powerful trumpeter, at ease with the most complicated and detailed bebop lines and an open-armed Armstrong swagger." Mark Buselli directs the ensembles.

For ticket information contact: Emens Auditorium at 765-285-1539 or 1-877-99-EMENS; Ticketmaster at 1-800-745-3000. Tickets go on sale August 12, 2013.

Ball State's top two band ensembles present a series of concerts each year under the direction of Thomas Caneva, Director of Bands, and Shawn Vondran, Assistant Director of Band.

For ticket information contact: Emens Auditorium at 765-285-1539 or 1-877-99-EMENS; Ticketmaster at 1-800-745-3000. Tickets go on sale August 12, 2013.

The choral ensembles perform several concerts each semester, offering repertoire from around the world and across the centuries. Each concert features two or more student ensembles and a broad palette of vibrant music.

For ticket information contact: Emens Auditorium at 765-285-1539 or 1-877-99-EMENS; Ticketmaster at 1-800-745-3000. Tickets go on sale August 12, 2013.

Based on Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther and composed by Jules Massenet,Werther is the tragic story of a man hopelessly in love with another man's wife. This four act opera features the 2013 Metropolitan Opera Audition winner and Ball State Alumnus, Michael Brandenburg in the title role. Sung in French, with projected English supertitles, this is the first of two performances. The second performance will take place on Sunday, April 6 at 2 p.m. in Sursa Hall.

For ticket information contact: Emens Auditorium at 765-285-1539 or 1-877-99-EMENS; Ticketmaster at 1-800-745-3000. Tickets go on sale August 12, 2013.

Based on Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther and composed by Jules Massenet,Werther is the tragic story of a man hopelessly in love with another man's wife. This four act opera features the 2013 Metropolitan Opera Audition winner and Ball State Alumnus, Michael Brandenburg in the title role. The opera will be sung in French, with projected English supertitles. This is the second and final performance.

For ticket information contact: Emens Auditorium at 765-285-1539 or 1-877-99-EMENS; Ticketmaster at 1-800-745-3000. Tickets go on sale August 12, 2013.

The choral ensembles perform several concerts each semester, offering repertoire from around the world and across the centuries. Each concert features two or more student ensembles and a broad palette of vibrant music.

For ticket information contact: Emens Auditorium at 765-285-1539 or 1-877-99-EMENS; Ticketmaster at 1-800-745-3000. Tickets go on sale August 12, 2013.

The Art of Jazz Series presents The Kennedy Dream by Oliver Nelson. Recorded in 1967 and never performed since, this will be a must see for 2014. Fifty years after the death of John F. Kennedy, this hour long set of songs and speeches still maintains relevant today. The work features a full jazz ensemble and scaled down orchestra. 

Douglas Droste, conductor
Oliver Nelson Jr., narrator
Mark Buselli, soloist

For ticket information contact: Emens Auditorium at 765-285-1539 or 1-877-99-EMENS; Ticketmaster at 1-800-745-3000.  Tickets go on sale August 12, 2013.