From MSU Today on Impact Radio: Nine-time Grammy Award-winning jazz musician Wynton Marsalis has been commissioned by the MSU College of Music, the Wharton Center for Performing Arts and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra to create a new piece of music that celebrates Michigan. The world premiere of the piece will be performed by Marsalis with [...]

From MSU Today on Impact Radio: Mike Brand is executive director of MSU’s renowned Wharton Center for Performing Arts. Nine-time Grammy Award winner Wynton Marsalis is coming to Wharton Center for a celebration of jazz and a world premiere of a new piece celebrating Michigan composed by Marsalis and performed by the combined talents of [...]

From MSU Today on Impact Radio: Sunny Wilkinson has taken her place in that elite group of jazz vocalists who have stretched the boundaries and found themselves “one of a kind.” Her performance credits are impressive, having sung with The Count Basie Band, Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass, Clark Terry, Mark Murphy, Milt Hinton, [...]

From MSU Today: On May 4, 2006, MSU presented “A Conversation With Legendary Motown Founder Berry Gordy.” Terry Denbow, vice president of University Relations at MSU, provides a brilliant introduction to the special evening. Rodney Whitaker, associate professor of music, joined Gordy on the stage of Wharton Center’s Pasant Theatre in a wide-ranging discussion of [...]