Magic was in the air at Midland's "Simple Gifts"

Roland Wallace knew he had heard the name Chelsea Tipton before, though the Midland Symphony Orchestra’s double-bassist couldn’t place exactly where. Then, during the week’s rehearsals building to Saturday’s “Simple Gifts” concert at the Midland Center for the Arts, he looked at guest conductor Chelsea Tipton II and remembered. “Forty years ago, when he was a little kid, about 4 years old, running around the house, and I was a junior in high school, his father gave me my first full-ride music scholarship to music camp,” said Wallace, who as the Maestro Wannabe winner conducted Sousa’s “Stars and Stripes Forever” on Saturday.

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