Dear Friends of the Baytown Symphony Orchestra:,
Welcome to our new 2009-2010 season. We are delighted
to have you attend these wonderful concerts so professionally presented by
our talented orchestra under the fine direction of Maestro Dennis Eichler.
Our orchestra organization joins the residents of Baytown and the
surrounding area in celebrating Lee College’s 75th Anniversary
as an enduring and growing educational institution---a tremendous asset
to the Baytown community. As well, the Orchestra is in its 42nd
year of presenting timeless classical music by historic and modern
composers.
This will be the first year that the Orchestra’s four
concerts will be presented in the fabulous Performing Arts Center on the
Lee College campus. This new venue is a state of the art complex with
acoustic excellence that will enhance your listening pleasure in the
comfort of this wonderful performance hall.
Our concerts are supported by you, our patrons, by
our many advertisers, by the continuing support of
Lee College,
Goose Creek CISD, the
City of Baytown, and by
our annual Gala. We are grateful for all of this
support from these organizations.
While our concerts have been free to the public for
many years---and are free, again, this year---our annual budget now
exceeds $73,000. Funding is increasingly difficult to find
(especially in these difficult economic times) despite the generous help
of all those organizations listed above. We anticipate that we will have
to supplement our budget through the sale of concert tickets in future
years to meet our expenses. Most organizations like ours must rely on this
type of support to operate successfully. We hope that you who enjoy these
concerts understand our situation and will continue to support and enjoy
this wonderful cultural asset in our community.
If you have questions about our organization I
encourage you to contact any of our Board members.
We hope you thoroughly enjoy this
season's concerts.
John McGill, President
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