Campus Currents

March 10, 2025

The orchestra rehearsing in DPAC


MetroWesy Symphony Orchestra Spring Concert 

Richard St. Clair, “Hello!” for Orchestra
Franz Schubert, Concerto for Arpeggione and Orchestra
Aaron Copland, Quiet City
Charles Gounod, Ballet music from Faust

This concert, which is free to the FSU community, will take us from the early nineteenth century right through the twenty-first. The earliest-written piece is Franz Schubert’s beautiful, sonorous Concerto for Arpeggione, which is named for, and was written for, an six-stringed ancestor of today’s modern cello. Soloist Seth MacLeod will play the version for cello and string orchestra.

A worldwide favorite, Charles Gounod’s opera Faust (1859) has ballet music as well as song and story. The ballet music was added to the opera ten years after its first performance.

Aaron Copland’s “Quiet City” was originally composed as incidental music for a play by that name by Irwin Shaw. It is now best known as a piece of music separate from the play.

And, commissioned on behalf of the MSO, Richard St. Clair’s new piece Hello! for Orchestra celebrates the collaboration of the Metrowest Symphony with Framingham State University.

$20 for adults; $10 for seniors, students and veterans
Free to the FSU Community

Additional Events

Wednesday, March 12, 2025, 1:30 – 3 p.m. 
Center for Inclusive Excellence 

Want to know more about Birthright Citizenship in America? Join the CIE, as we host Dr. Lissa Bollettino, Professor and Chair, Department of History, and Dr. Joe Adelman, Professor, Department of History, for a dynamic presentation and discussion on the 14th Amendment and the impact of birthright citizenship in the U.S.! Come explore history, legal debates, and current perspectives in an interactive and thought-provoking session.

O'Connor Hall Room 220 
Thursday, March 13, 2025, 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. 

Come share a scholarly or creative work in progress with your fellow faculty and librarians during the Works in Progress Colloquium. Sharing will take place in small groups to ensure time for feedback and discussion. Please register to let us know how you’d like to use your 5-10 minutes to share something you have been working on, the primary focus around which you would like to be grouped (subject area, specific goal, or other), and what kind of feedback would be most useful to you at this stage. We will use the information you provide to organize participants into groups. 

Friday, March 14, 2:30 to 4:30 p.m.
Alumni Room, McCarthy Center 

After two years of hard work, the General Education Advisory Board has proposed a NEW model for General Education at FSU. As a Liberal Arts University, our General Education curriculum says a lot about who we are and what we value. Members of the University Curriculum Committee (UCC) value YOU! To that end, the UCC will be hosting two open, hybrid meetings dedicated to discussing the proposed General Education logs and the impact they will have on our community. You are welcome to join these meetings:

CC 309 Alumni Room and via zoom (link https://zoom.us/j/94659777190)