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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
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