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2007-08 Orchestra Concert Season:

Concerts with a "$" indicate that tickets are $9, $7 for senior citizens, and free for students and those under age 18.

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Friday, October 26
Symphony Orchestra
8 p.m. Cobb Great Hall, Wharton Center $
I-Fu Wang, guest artist

Friday, November 16
Cinderella (La Cenerentola)
MSU Opera Theatre and Chamber Orchestra
8 p.m. Concert Auditorium $$
Music: Gioacchino Rossini

A preview lecture will be held 45 minutes before each performance. Reserved Seating Only.

$$: (special admission charges) $18, $16 for senior citizens, and $8 for students and those under the age of 18.

Saturday, November 17
Cinderella (La Cenerentola)
MSU Opera Theatre and Chamber Orchestra
8 p.m. Concert Auditorium $$
Music: Gioacchino Rossini

A preview lecture will be held 45 minutes before each performance. Reserved Seating Only.

$$: (special admission charges) $18, $16 for senior citizens, and $8 for students and those under the age of 18.

Saturday, November 17
Symphony Orchestra
8 p.m. Cobb Great Hall, Wharton Center $
Elsa Ludewig-Verdehr, Walter Verdehr, Anne Nispel, and Molly Fillmore, guest artists

Honoring the 90th Birthday of james Niblock

Sunday, November 18
Cinderella (La Cenerentola)
MSU Opera Theatre and Chamber Orchestra
3 p.m. Concert Auditorium $$
Music: Gioacchino Rossini

A preview lecture will be held 45 minutes before each performance. Reserved Seating Only.

$$: (special admission charges) $18, $16 for senior citizens, and $8 for students and those under the age of 18.

Thursday, November 29
Philharmonic Orchestra
7:30 p.m. Fairchild Theatre $

Saturday, December 1
MSU's Home for the Holidays
Symphony Orchestra, Women's Glee Club, Men's Glee Club, and Children's Choir
8 p.m. Cobb Great Hall, Wharton Center $

MSU College of Music and Wharton Center collaboration. Proceeds benefit the College of Music.

Reserved seating tickets range from $12-25 and are available from Wharton Center Box Office only. (517) 432-2000, (800) WHARTON

Thursday, December 6
Concert Orchestra
7:30 p.m. Fairchild Theatre $
Glorious Russian Classics

Saturday, January 26
Symphony Orchestra
8 p.m. Cobb Great Hall, Wharton Center $
Richard Sherman, guest artist

Thursday, January 31
Philharmonic Orchestra
7:30 p.m. Fairchild Theatre $
Fiddlers Re-Strung, guest soloists

Thursday, February 21
Concert Orchestra
7:30 p.m. St. Thomas Aquinas Church, 955 Alton Rd., East Lansing $
Italian Delight

Saturday, February 23
Symphony Orchestra
8 p.m. Cobb Great Hall, Wharton Center $
George Vatchnadze, guest artist

Thursday, February 28
Philharmonic Orchestra
7:30 p.m. Fairchild Theatre $
Latin American Program

Friday, March 28
Candide
MSU Opera Theatre and Symphony Orchestra
8 p.m. Concert Auditorium $$
Music: Leonard Bernstein

A preview lecture will be held 45 minutes before each performance. Reserved Seating Only.

$$: (special admission charges) $18, $16 for senior citizens, and $8 for students and those under the age of 18.

Saturday, March 29
Candide
MSU Opera Theatre and Symphony Orchestra
8 p.m. Concert Auditorium $$
Music: Leonard Bernstein

A preview lecture will be held 45 minutes before each performance. Reserved Seating Only.

$$: (special admission charges) $18, $16 for senior citizens, and $8 for students and those under the age of 18.

Sunday, March 30
Candide
MSU Opera Theatre and Symphony Orchestra
3 p.m. Concert Auditorium $$
Music: Leonard Bernstein

A preview lecture will be held 45 minutes before each performance. Reserved Seating Only.

$$: (special admission charges) $18, $16 for senior citizens, and $8 for students and those under the age of 18.

Thursday, April 3
2008 Honors Concert
Symphony Orchestra
7:30 p.m. Cobb Great Hall, Wharton Center $

Annual program features, as soloists, competition winners selected by nationally recognized judges. Being selected for this honor is the highest performance achievement for College of Music students.

Thursday, April 17
Philharmonic Orchestra
7:30 p.m. Fairchild Theatre $

Thursday, April 24
Concert Orchestra
7:30 p.m. Fairchild Theatre $

Popular Classics

Saturday, April 26
Symphony Orchestra, Choral Union, and Choral Ensembles

Wharton Center 25th Anniversary Concert
8 p.m. Cobb Great Hall, Wharton Center $

This MSU College of Music/Wharton Center collaboration pays tribute to Clifton and Dolores Wharton, with a special romantic world premiere work composed by award-winning composer and MSU alumnus Adolphus Hailstork

Reserved seating tickets range from $18-28 and are available from Wharton Center Box Office only. (517) 432-2000, (800)WHARTON.