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Adolphe Sax Birthday Concert

Sunday, November 9, 2025 3:00–4:30 PM
  • Location
    Pealer Recital Hall, PAC
  • Description
    FSU’s Department of Music Celebrates Adolphe Sax Birthday With Concert

    The 11-member FSU Saxophone Orchestra, featuring FSU and community saxophonists, are presenting a recital celebrating the birthday of Adolphe Sax (born November 6, 1814) who was the Belgian-French inventor of the saxophone. The recital is Sunday, November 9, at 3:00 p.m. in the Pealer Recital Hall of FSU’s Woodward D. Pealer Performing Arts Center. This FSU Department of Music, Theatre and Dance concert is free and open to the public; it will also be livestreamed, follow the link at www.frostburg.edu/concerts.

    The program includes: “Georgia on My Mind” by Hoagy Carmichael, most widely-known from Ray Charles’ 1960 recording of the song, which was later designated the State Song for the State of Georgia; “The Entertainer” by Scott Joplin, the 1902 classic piano rag (which was also sold in the 1910s on piano rolls for player pianos) that returned to prominence in the 1970s when it was used as theme music for Oscar-winning film “The Sting”; “Breathe” by Katahj Copley, written to highlight the reactions and emotions around the summer 2020 death of George Floyd; “Jarba, Mare Jarba” by Stacy Garrop, a popular traditional Hungarian-Romani folk song about longing to return to one’s homeland; and “Selections from Carmen Suite No. 1” by Georges Bizet, which was drawn from the music of his 1875 opera “Carmen”.
  • Website
    https://events.frostburg.edu/event/adolphe-sax-birthday-concert-491
  • Categories
    Music, Performance, Recital

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