[Students] "The President's Own" United States Marine Band performs concer t Oct. 15 at Texas A&M-Commerce

[Joan Lawrence]

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"The President's Own" United States Marine Band will perform at 8 p.m.,
Saturday, Oct. 15 at Ferguson Auditorium on the campus of Texas
A&M-Commerce, as part of the band's annual fall concert tour. The program
will feature Texas native and mezzo-soprano soloist Staff Sergeant Sara
Dell'Omo performing Gioachino Rossini's "Uno voce poco fa" from The Barber
of Seville; double bass soloist Master Sergeant Aaron Clay on Vittorio
Monti's virtuosic showpiece, "Czardas"; Sergei Prokofiev's Athletic Festival
March; and John Philip Sousa's "King Cotton" and "The Stars and Stripes
Forever." 

The concert is free and no tickets are required. Doors will open at 7:15
p.m., and seating will be on a first-come, first-served basis. 

The band departed Washington, D.C., on Oct. 3, and will perform 42 concerts
in 49 days throughout western Virginia, southern West Virginia, western
North Carolina, Tennessee, northern Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas,
Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico. The tour will conclude on Sunday,
Nov. 20 in Harrisonburg, Va. For more information on the band's national
concert tour, please visit www.marineband.usmc.mil/NATIONAL_TOUR/index.htm.

The Marine Band is America's oldest professional musical organization.
Founded in 1798, the band has performed for every U.S. President since John
Adams. Given the title "The President's Own" by Thomas Jefferson, the Marine
Band's primary mission is to provide music for the President of the United
States and the Commandant of the Marine Corps.

 

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