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Please read the prospectus carefully before investing. © 2004 Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association-College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA-CREF), 730 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 C31471 6A ENTERTAIN® Thursday, April 1, 2004 THE BATTi :ni Sound of musk [HE TAMU Orchestra to host spring coi ti By Christina Tiechman THE BATTALION This weekend the newly-founded Texas A&M Orchestra will be lifting its melodic sounds into the air at the Memorial Student Center. The organization was founded during the 2003 fall semester, and its members are working hard to get the word out to their fellow students. The orchestra now consists of about 60 members, including undergraduate and graduate students. This spring will bring their first Spring Concert. Robert A. Kenefick, a professor in the A&M physics department since 1965, and Paul Sikes, associate director of bands at A&M. are faculty advisers to the TAMU Orchestra. Cynthia Lin, a junior biomedical sciences major us president of the TAMU Orchestra. “My freshman year (at A & M), we started an ensemble which “1 was glad to join (the orchestra) beet, had played for nine years and really enjo)t£|| Olson said. Olson said all the members of the orcl are hard working and take pride in accomplishments. “It’s just great how everybody takesinitia and is so involved,” Olson said. Elizabeth Wong, the group’s librarian, volunteer for TAMU Orchestra said hertalei a violin player is greatly improved time spent in the orchestra. “TAMU Orchestra aims to provide its J hers an opportunity to improve and use J musical abilities through large and smal practices and performances,” Wong said. Lin said someoli pieces audiences hear performed incl "St. Paul’s Suite String Ore Movements 1 andtj Gustav “Nimrod” included seven people.” said Cynthia Lin, presi dent of the TAMU student orchestra and junior biomedical sciences major. "Last year we decid ed we wanted to become a bigger group so we applied to be a student organization.” Lin said the ensemble was called Philyra, which is Greek for “love of music,” and that the group was fashioned to perform as a string orchestra with instruments such as violins, vio las, string basses and cellos. Soon it evolved into an orchestra displaying a mixture of string and band instruments. Brad Cawye, the orchestra’s conductor, grad uated in December 2003 from A&M with a degree in mathematics and minor in music. “Brad works with Brazos Valley Symphony Orchestra,” Lin said. “He is applying for gradu ate school in orchestral conducting." Zachary Olson, a sophomore physics major, who plays the viola for the TAMU Orchestra said some of the members interacted with each other before the group was formed. “There had been a couple of string quartets and a couple of us knew each other from the Aggie Music Forum," Olson said. Before the orchestra was formally united, there were several unofficial meetings, and talk of an orchestra starting was spread by word-of- mouth to those interested. “Enigma Variations” “Op. 36” by EdwardEi and several other inspiring compositions. Wong said the orchestra plays a variei musical styles. "Although orchestras are usually assoc with classical music, they play a wide wi musical styles from pop to jazz, modemand^ urally classical," Wong said. Stephen Goodman, a sophomore bioiK sciences major, saw the orchestra performiis concert. Because several of Goodman’s frii are officers in the group, he had heardabou orchestra when it was beginning last fall. “1 thought it was unique that there wa orchestra on campus and that it wascompoisi students, and neat that the conductor wasa dent as well." Goodman said. Goodman said there are many things people to look forward to at the I Orchestra concert. “1 encourage anyone who is a fan of music or who wants to see what the rest student population is doing to go,” Goodman The TAMU Orchestra’s concert weekend April 3, at 5 p.m. in the Mei Student Center Flag Room and a silent ai will take place before the concert at dp Admission is free. 1m at i hen, ose non oulc unsf He unsh Ither ut o ists nage Fu: nely [on f ovie Joe Its ex iunst eps Tb Idoct lertaii Th I nans is logi Tin rant! i I Iso In ItCle On I ftice; I’Ollgl St. Mary's University Alumni Association First fieM San Antoni 1 * FRIDAY, APRIL! * 5 to 11 pit Robert Earl I Vince Vance and the Valianli Randy Rogers B» Network for Young Artist * Live Music * Food, Drinks, Expanded Grounds * Children's Entertainment * Diamond Shamrock Fireworks Spectacular (Friday only) * Carnival on Diamond Shamrock's Shuckie Street ress, is cat tighla Aff nichi et.Af win Wh >iJdier )araci The 'arlin' Teen SATURDAY, APRIL! 11a.m. to 11 pi ewar Entertainment is subject to change without notification * Friday at the Gate: $15 * Saturday at the Gate: $15 * Pre-Sale Ticket for, Friday or Saturday: $11 ^Children 12 and Under: FREE Pushmonkei The Burden Brother! 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