FSU’s Department of Music Celebrates Adolphe Sax Birthday With Recital

Oct 21, 2025 8:00 AM

Frostburg State University’s Department of Music, Theatre and Dance’ 11-member Saxophone Orchestra will present a birthday celebration recital in honor of Adolphe Sax, the Belgian French musician and inventor of the saxophone, on Sunday, Nov. 9, at 3 p.m. in the Pealer Recital Hall of FSU’s Woodward D. Pealer Performing Arts Center. The concert is free and open to the public. This event will also be livestreamed; the link will be posted at www.frostburg.edu/concerts.

The program will include “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”.

For more information, contact FSU’s Department of Music, Theatre and Dance at 301-687-4109.