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concert Oct. 15 at Texas A&M-Commerce </title>
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<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>"The
President's Own" <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>United States Marine
Band will perform at 8 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 15 at Ferguson Auditorium</span></b>
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<i><span style='font-style:italic'> The Barber of Seville</span></i>;
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." <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>concert is free</span></b> and no tickets are
required. <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Doors will open at 7:15 p.m</span></b>.,
and seating will be on a first-come, first-served basis. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The band
departed <st1:City w:st="on">Washington</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">D.C.</st1:State>,
on Oct. 3, and will perform 42 concerts in 49 days throughout western <st1:State
w:st="on">Virginia</st1:State>, southern <st1:State w:st="on">West Virginia</st1:State>,
western <st1:State w:st="on">North Carolina</st1:State>, <st1:State w:st="on">Tennessee</st1:State>,
northern <st1:State w:st="on">Alabama</st1:State>, <st1:State w:st="on">Mississippi</st1:State>,
<st1:State w:st="on">Arkansas</st1:State>, <st1:State w:st="on">Louisiana</st1:State>,
<st1:State w:st="on">Oklahoma</st1:State>, <st1:State w:st="on">Texas</st1:State>
and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">New Mexico</st1:State></st1:place>.
The tour will conclude on Sunday, Nov. 20 in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Harrisonburg</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">Va.</st1:State></st1:place>
For more information on the band's national concert tour, please visit
www.marineband.usmc.mil/NATIONAL_TOUR/index.htm.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The
Marine Band is <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>'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 <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region> and the Commandant of
the Marine Corps.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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