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Philharmonic to host 3rd concert of anniversary season

The Marshall Philharmonic Orchestra will continue its “Salute to 60 Season” on Sunday, Feb. 19. This third concert of the anniversary season will bring back one of the audience’s most requested and respected area professional pianists. Mia Kim, Professor of Piano and Head of the Piano Area at the University of Central Missouri – Warrensburg, first performed with MPO in 2011. On Sunday, Dr. Kim will play Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 with the orchestra and a contemporary solo work: The Garden of Eden Suite III, Rag Fantasy: “The Serpent’s Kiss,” written by American composer William Bolcom. This admission-free concert, underwritten by Community Bank of Marshall and Exchange Bank, will be held in the Harold L. Lickey Auditorium of Bueker Middle School in Marshall and will begin at 2:30 p.m. A meet-and-greet reception will immediately follow the concert.

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Lance grateful to be alive, hopes to play again

Lots of happy tears were shed Saturday at Missouri Valley College’s basketball games on Senior Day Saturday. Only eight days after sophomore point guard Jace Lance collapsed during a practice and had to be resuscitated by his father, Valley head coach Chad Lance, and athletic trainer Richelle Perkins with the aid of an Automated External Defibrillator (AED), Jace attended and, at times, helped coach the Vikings as they tangled with the Peru State Bobcats in a Heart of America Athletic Conference game at the Burns Athletic Center.

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