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nesday, November 5, 1969
BATTALION
College Station, Texas
Page 3
Sousaphones Add
Solidness to Band
uo
Music by the Texas Aggie Band
t the Saturday Texas A&M-
MU football game will sound
nore solid.
The band has added 16 new
sousaphones to its instrumenta-
ection the largest ever, an-
ounced Lt. Col. E. V. Adams,
ion, making the 24-horn bass
The dean of Southwest Confer-
nce band directors indicated the
9,000 investment in new King
nstruments will definitely im-
rove the 276-instrument Aggie
land’s sound. Its appearance
uring the halftime performance
Iso will be altered.
In regular formation, the band
reviously marched its basses on
lie last two ranks. With the sec-
ion’s size increase, a double
ring of the big silver-belled
oms will extend from the 23rd
ank to the 15th, Adams said.
'We previously had some good
ass players who weren’t being
eard well,” the colonel comment-
d. “Valves on some of the old
asses were so worn that air was
lowing by them, cutting down
n the sound produced by about
third.”
He said 10 of the band’s for-
ler Sousaphones have been re-
ired. The best eight were re-
ained for use with the 16 new
liver-finished instruments, which
include two E-flat and 14 double-
B-flat horns.
The old instruments have been
in use since 1948, only three years
less than Adams has directed the
famed marching musical organi
zation.
Preciseness of the band’s half
time drills is accentuated by
snappy movements of the basses
on turns and flanking maneuvers.
Members of the 1969-70 Aggie
Band’s bass section are Joe D.
Anderson, Houston; Adrian A.
Arrigo, Mission; Arthur E. Black-
bum, Eagle Pass; Paul E. Bond,
Garland; Billy E. Bourlon Jr.,
Harwell; Robert J. Boyd, La-
Porte; John A. Brieden III, Cor
pus Christi; William W. Christo
pher, Marfa; Fred R. Close and
Ronald C. Jetton, Abilene; Thom
as A. Cox, San Antonio; Bruce
W. Crooker, Freeport.
Also, Dale R. Dunlap, Waco;
Francis S. Click, Brazoria; Alan
H. Gurevick, Valley Stream, N.Y.;
Michael R. Hardin, Fort Stock-
ton; George W. House, New
Braunfels; John D. Lash Jr.,
Woodville; Henry J. Murray,
Junction; Randy M. Saxton,
Schertz; Michael R. Shannon, Vi
dor; George C. Siller Jr., La-
Marque; Richard A. Smith, Odes
sa, and John B. Roach, Sham
rock.
’layers’ Tobacco Road’ Tells
tliout Southern Sharecroppers
y Bob Robinson
attalion Staff Writer
‘Tobacco Road,” the Aggie
layers’ second major production
■lis year, is the story of a south-
Kjn; sharecropper family living in
lie back country of Georgia.
I Jeeter Lester, his wife Ada,
■s mother, and his two children,
le last of a brood of 17, live in
^ squalid shack just off the To-
cco Road, about 30 miles from
ugusta. The land has long ago
en exhausted by intensive and
upidly cultivated cotton plant-
g to the point where it is no
onger even able to supply food.
The sole remaining asset of
eeter’s is an automobile that
'on’t run.
Sister Bessie is a preacher
roman who visits the Lesters
ccasionally to pray for Jeeter
fter he has stolen something, or
inned in some other way. She
ikes an interest in Dude, Jeet-
r’s youngest son, and decides to
aarry him. She entices him by
uying an automobile that will
un.
Lov married one of the Lester
[children, Pearl, but even though
le’s in love with her, she won’t
espond to him in any way. She
lot only won’t cook for him or
alk to him, but won’t share his
bed. He goes to Jeeter for help,
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but before anything can be done,
she runs away.
Ellie May is the one daughter
who is still at home. She is in
fatuated with Lov and feels that
she can satisfy him, but, partly
because he’s in love with Pearl,
and partly because Ellie May has
a split lip and is almost ugly, he
won’t have anything to do with
her.
The running theme of the play
is Jeeter’s hopes that someone
will give him credit so he can
plant a crop on the worn-out
land. When he hears that Cap
tain Tim, the owner of the land,
is in the area, his hopes run
high that the captain will do
what his father before him had
done, and start giving him cred
it again.
His hopes crash when Captain
Tim tells him that a banker
named Payne now owns the land
and plans to evict him.
The play is an adaptation by
Jack Kirkland of Erskin Cald
well’s famous book. It was a
success on Broadway for an
eight-year run in the 1930’s. It
is in the same Caldwell tradition
of earthy depiction of life in the
deep South.
“Tobacco Road” will be per
formed at 8 p.m. in Guion Hall
December 9-13. Admission will
be $1.
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(Continued from page 1)
fall meeting includes election of
officers and the budget for 1970.
Spring council meetings are
leld in conjunction with the club
officer workshop and class
agents’ conference.
A&M President Earl Rudder
will make his annual status of
the university report to the coun-
l.
Jeff Montgomery of Houston,
chairman of the association nom
inating committee, will report on
the 1970 nominations to the board
and council. The council will vote
on the nominations, with officers
to take their positions on Jan. 1.
On KBTX Tonight
6:30 Glenn Campbell
7:30 Beverly Hillbillies
8:00 ABC Wednesday Night
Movie “A Man & A
Woman”
10:00 TX Final News
10:30 It Takes A Thief
11:30 Alfred Hitchcock
TOWN HALL
Presents
RAY PRICE
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mm
“Danny Boy”
Friday, Nov. 7
8:00 p. m.
George Rollie White
Coliseum
Admission
A&M Students Presentation of ID & Activity Card
Town Hall Season Ticket Holders Presentation of Season
Ticket
A&M Student Date or Spouse $2.00
Other Students $2.00
Faculty, Staff, Patrons $3.00
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