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Area Observances Set for Veteran’s Day — Our Thanks to Those Who Served

Tony Ramos — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 05:18:41 +0000

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This coming week marks the occasion of Veterans Day 2021 and for the 10th year now, the Bryan Rotary Club will arrange 1,000 flags in a “salute to service” at Veterans Park in College Station to create a Field of Valor. This is the 100 ^th
anniversary year of Bryan Rotary Club serving our area and the service they offer our community continues to grow.

This year there’s an exciting program for area fifth grade students called “Statue Match,” where students study all the history information panels and statues along the American History Trail of Veterans Park, and they can learn what each statue represents.

On Veterans Day itself, beginning at 5:30 pm on Thursday, November 11, will be the annual Veterans Day Ceremony at the Louis L. Adam Memorial Plaza of Veterans Park. New names added to the Brazos Valley Memorial since last year will be recognized in a reading of the names recently added—the “Honor Wall Roll Call.”

If you have a loved one whose name you’d like to add, August 15 ^th
each year is the annual deadline to provide the information form and payment for the coming Veterans Day observance.

There’s a majestic presence felt at the Veterans Park as the crowd hears the National Anthem and our state song, “Texas Our Texas,” sees the Rifle Salute of the Aggie elite corps group, the Ross Volunteers, and then “Taps” is played. One tip is to arrive early before the 5:30 pm start time to secure a good parking space.

The weekend following Veteran’s Day, the Museum of the American G.I. will host “History in Motion,” the weekend of November 13 and 14. Children and adults of all ages will delight in watching tanks and other vehicles moving over ground and weapons will be demonstrated. Inside the museum is an amazing collection of military vehicles. It’s a great family activity. We look forward to seeing you there.

Have you noticed, when you are out shopping in town, a group of distinguished gentlemen of senior age, and they are sporting baseball caps that indicate their branch of service and any particular battle or conflict they might have served in? It’s easy to pass them by unless you are looking.

I remember being at a Veteran’s Day observance and noticing how many local residents we know from other aspects of our life and searching their faces, you’d likely never known what they went through in the course of their service to our country.

Many have faces with lines burned into wrinkles but their eyes shine when they see our U.S. flag flying in town. They’re the ones who know the real meaning of the flag, because when they were thousands of miles away from home, the only thing that “said” home or brought them a sense of home were those flags.

Most of us don’t know what it’s like to spend the night or any amount of time in a foxhole. We don’t have medals that show all the conflicts that we’ve been in. We don’t know what it’s like to march for the 25 ^th
mile that day, with a backpack weighted down with supplies that will sustain us for a few days.

Several friends have sons and daughters who are just through their first round of bootcamp, having just entered the service following their high school careers. They go through sleep deprivation, endure extreme cold and heat, go without food that gives strength, and it’s the ultimate test of endurance, and yet each young adult knows that going in. They’re at top physical performance because of their youth. They can run, they don’t have to jog.

But there’s a psychological component to military service that they are unprepared for and that is to lose a dear friend or even a member of their unit as a casualty of war. They don’t know what it’s like to lose a limb in battle or even in operations designed to simulate war. There’s an equal need to thank those who have not seen combat but who signed on to prepare to keep our nation safe.

Most Veterans keep their thoughts and memories silent. Instead, you’ll see them holding bundles of small American flags, planting them in containers in graveyards many times of the year, especially on Memorial Day when we honor those who lost their lives in service to our country.

Veteran’s Day is a day we thank all who volunteered to serve or who answered the call when their country sought their participation. You all are to be honored more than just a few days a year.

It may seem to you to just be “a thing you say” but whenever you see a young person on a plane or anywhere wearing combat fatigues, it means a lot to hear, “Thank you for your service.” We can’t say it enough, whether Veteran’s Day or every day. Our community is truly blessed by all of you being a part of our lives.

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40th Season of the Brazos Valley Symphony Orchestra Offers New Gifts to Area Residents

Tony Ramos — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 07:27:24 +0000

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Just as we are sending area youth off to their first days of school (and college) this month, it’s always an exciting time to welcome new seasons of our arts organizations here. They each spend hours of volunteer time contemplating their offerings for the coming year. For the first time this year, the Brazos Valley Symphony Orchestra will be holding a three-event Free Summer Series.

Because of the record heat in July and travel schedules for musicians and their families, the Summer Series actually begins

on Sunday, August 27, 2023

. That concert will present the

BVSO Percussion Ensemble

on the Green at Century Square in College Station. The event will be free although the center itself charges about $5.00 for an hour or two of time, either around the green or over in the garage.

The Percussion Ensemble is led by Sarah Burke, Section Principal, and it will be an unforgettable concert in what will arguably be perfect weather; surely in two weeks it will be cooler and in the evening it will be lovely. Plus, Hopdoddy’s, Blaze Pizza, Sugar’s Candy and other restaurants are within three minutes’ walking distance to supply patrons with dinner to go along with the evening’s entertainment.

The

BVSO Strings

will debut on Sunday evening,

September 17

, and the

BVSO Winds

will perform on Sunday,

October 8

. All three summer concerts begin at 6pm. Bring a lawn chair and the entire family and treat them to beautiful, free entertainment by an organization that contains your talented friends, neighbors, and colleagues!

The regular season of the 40

anniversary year will start on

October 15

in Rudder Theatre on the TAMU Campus, featuring

Martin Garcia

playing Beethoven’s Emperor piano concerto No. 5, the overture to Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5. Mr. Garcia is first place winner of the Cleveland International Piano Competition as well as an international medalist.

November 5

, three lovely ladies present Illuminations and Glory! In Rudder Theatre. Soprano Bronwen Forbay and Mezzo Soprano Galina Ivannikova join with Soprano Bethany Clearfield for Bach’s Wedding Cantata, Benjamin Britten’s Les Illuminations, and Vivaldi’s Gloria in D Major. The program also incorporates two exceptional groups, the Brazos Valley Chorale and the Texas A&M Century Singers. The evening is special, of course, as it is sponsored by the Clearfield family, longtime anchors of the BV Symphony Society.

Rounding out the Fall will be the Holiday Pops concert on

December 10

, at Christ Church in College Station, which features James Faith, Organist, the Christ Church Sanctuary Choir and Canticle Bell Ringers as well as the College Station Varsity Women’s Choir on various future selections for brass, organ, and choir.

In the

Spring 2024

, two dynamic guitarists, Isaac Bustos and Alejandro Montiel, will perform Carmen Suites No. 1 and 2, the Three Cornered Hat Suite No. 1 by Manuel de Falla and Concierto Madrigal for Two Guitars by Joaquin Rodrigo. Bustos and Montiel are Grammy-nominated artists who bring their gifts to Rudder Theatre on

January 21

, 2024.

In time for Valentine’s Day celebrations, the BVSO has an evening with the centerpiece of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition front and center in Rudder Auditorium on

February 18

. Adding to the fun will be Debussy’s Clair de lune, Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin, and Villa Lobos’ Bachianas brasileiras No. 2.

BVSO Musical Director and Conductor, Dr. Marcelo Bussiki

March 24

, Brahms’ Hungarian Dances (Symphony No. 4) will be featured programming and feature BVSO’s principal trombone, Brian Logan, for this dynamic evening in Rudder Theatre.

Then, perhaps the season highlight has been set for

April 27

, Music of the Knights! Featuring the music of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, Sir Paul McCartney, and Sir Elton John, there’s a better than even chance that every audience member will be able to “name that tune” in five notes or less. It promises to be a magnificent evening of memories that will (hopefully) fill Rudder Auditorium!

Season tickets for all concerts are available for a very affordable $337 or a three-classical concert series for $262; the Holiday Pops are available at $40 each so it’s convenient to support the music in whatever configuration is comfortable for your budget. Of course, the caliber and quality of this outstanding BVSO has not endured and sustained for 40 years without the specific generosity and donation of community members, fellow artists, and local philanthropists, who’ve invested love, sweat, and tears into sustaining this precious artistic crown jewel in our area. Several concerts in the season are specifically underwritten as well.

It’s very easy to take for granted that we have a symphony here in the Texas A&M Community, and yet, it is a more challenging and important accomplishment that we still have one, as even the larger nationally ranked symphony groups have hit the wall financially across the country in trying budgetary times.

Therefore, now more than ever, it is important for us to show our support with our presence at the concerts as well as making the symphony your beneficiary when making special gifts in love and honor or in memory of a loved one. Their love of music will live on through the Brazos Valley Symphony Orchestra. For more information, or better yet, to join the Brazos Valley Symphony Society, visit their website at

www.bvso.org

won’t you?

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