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nity to share their work.
Stearns says there will be future
readings as poets write more
material to share.
“I would like to see it become
Orchestra
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nowned orchestra is violinist Iona
Brown. Brown has been a member
of the Academy since 1967. In 1974,
she became director of the string en-
The Academy rust debuted in the
United States in 1980. Since then
time, the popular ensemble has
played sold-out performances and
received high acclaim for its mem
bers’ virtuosity.
A featured member of this re
semble. In 1986, she was chosen ar
tistic director of the Academy’s
smaller chamber group. Brown’s re
cordings with the Academy of St.
Martin in-the-Fields include the
complete Mozart violin concert! and
Antonio Vivaldi’s Four Seasons.
Old homes
open for
public tour
McEntire, Van Shelton
play at A&M Friday
By Keith Spera
REVIEWER
Two of country music’s best will
be in College Station Friday night
when Reba McEntire and Ricky Van
Shelton perform at 8 p.m. in G.
Rollie White Coliseum.
The concert, presented by MSC
Town Hall, is the first show of
McEntire’s new' tour.
honors and awards, including being
honored as the Country Music Asso
ciation’s Female Vocalist of the Year
for four consecutive years (1984-
1987).
She was the Academy of Country
Music’s Top Female Vocalist of
1988, and she was given the Favorite
Female Country Vocalist award at
the 1988 American Music Awards.
Citizens for Historic Preservation
will sponsor its eighth Historic
Homes Tour on Feb. 11 at 6 p.m.
and Feb. 12 at 1 p.m.
The tour will feature four homes,
all of which were moved from their
original sites to College Station.
The homeowners will be available
to answer questions about the
homes.
The Yazdani home, believed to
have been built in the early 1900s,
was moved from Bryan to 902
Dexter Drive in 1984 to save it from
a demolition crew.
In 1907, the Shellenberger home
was built in Hearne and was moved
in 1985 to 1003 Haley Drive.
Two homes on the tour were
moved from the Texas A&M cam
pus.
Shelton will open the show. He is
touring in support of his latest al
bum, Loving Proof.
This LP, his second, is Number 2
on the Billboard magazine country
album chart.
His other album, Wild-Eyed
Dream , is holding steady at Number
17, after being on the charts for 101
weeks.
Both records have been certified
as achieving “gold” sales levels (more
than 500,000 copies sold).
McEntire has garnered a string of
McEntire’s last four albums have
been certified gold.
Her latest, Reba, holds the Num
ber 6 position on the country music
charts.
It includes the single “New 7 Fool at
an Old Game” (Number 19 on the
country singles chart) and her ver
sion of the Aretha Franklin classic,
“Respect.”
About 500 tickets remain for the
Friday night concert.
Tickets are available at the MSC
Box Office and Dillard’s in Post Oak
Mall.
The Smith home was built on
campus in 1923 and moved by the
Smiths in 1941 to 1004 Ashburn
Ave.
The McIntyre home, the oldest
home on the tour, was built on the
campus in 1890 and moved in 1948.
The home is now at 611 Montclair
Ave.
Tickets, which include admission
to all four homes, are $6 each and
are sold by the Arts Council at Suite
217, NCNB Texas Building in Col
lege Station.
The tickets also may be purchased
at the time of the tour. Those taking
the tour may begin at any house.
For more information, call the
Arts Council at 268-2787.
monthly tabloid that is another fo
rum for free expression.”
The first poetry reading was orga
nized after an A&M student, Ed
Brown II, approached Stearns with
the idea.
“I wanted to read my poetry, and
I knew that there were other people
who were interested in reading their
work,” Brown says. “I want to let the
University know that there are art
ists that need an outlet for their
work.”
Brown says some arts at A&M
have organizations through which
students can express their work,
while others such as creative writing
or poetry do not have sufficient out
lets.
Theater at A&M has an outlet
through the Aggie Players, and En
glish majors have Sigma Tau Delta,
but there is not a release for poets
other than the literary magazine Lit
mus, he says.
“As a student and English major
at A&M, it is a bit frustrating to read
from the Norton Anthology of poets
and be inspired to write,” Brown
says. “Because after I write my po
etry, I don’t have anywhere to read it
to the public.
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poets to read, but that there are no
organized events where students can
read from their personal collections.
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crowd, many of whom were pre
pared to read their poems. Some
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