At 7:30 p.m. today in the Music Building Auditorium, soprano Melanie Helton and pianist Alan Gosman will host a music show featuring unconventional music. Both are MSU faculty members.

The 50-minute concert will feature songs in pig Latin as well as a song set to the dictionary definition of love.

Helton and Gosman created the idea after a similar show Gosman participated in at Harvard University.

“This show is going to be very entertaining,” Helton, a vocal professor, said. “We collected songs that don’t follow the typical music structure. The idea is to not treat music so seriously because we want people to come and laugh at us.”

Prior to coming to MSU in fall 2001, Helton sang at concerts and performed on Broadway. She has sung more than 60 leading roles in most major opera companies in the United States, as well as Australia and South America.

Tickets are $7 for adults, $5 for senior citizens, and free for students and those under 18 with ID. Tickets are available at the MSU School of Music, (517)353-5340, or at the door before the concert.