Texas A&M Director of Bands and Music Activities Timothy Rhea addresses the audience at the groundbreaking for the new John D. White ’70 – Robert L. Walker ’58 Music Activities Center.
“The new rehearsal halls will allow the choirs to integrate into the band and orchestra space, fostering better cooperation and interaction among different musical groups,” Kroeger said. “And having multiple halls will allow better flexibility in scheduling rehearsals for less interference with popular class times in students’ majors.”
The resource-efficient, silver-certified LEED design, which Brown Reynolds Watford Architects, and Hammel, Green and Abrahamson, Inc. collaborated to create, will provide plenty of room for future growth. Construction is expected to wrap up near the end of the summer 2019 semester so that students can begin using the facility in the fall.
“I can speak for the whole orchestra when I say that we are extremely grateful to the university and to the donors who are making such a fantastic facility a reality,” Kroeger said. “To the Aggie donors who look back on their time at A&M so fondly, I would say that gifts like this keep A&M an equally special place for future generations of Aggies.”
An additional $515,000 is still needed to meet the project’s $20 million fundraising goal through the Texas A&M Foundation. An additional $2.5 million also will be needed for project overages and maintenance. Donor support that helps to construct this grand facility will help to transform music education at Texas A&M. Naming opportunities are still available that fund a space, a room or a pillar inside or outside the building. Matching gifts from a donor’s employer could double, triple or quadruple the size of the gift.
To contribute a major gift of $25,000 or more to the Music Activities Center, contact Cindy Munson, senior director of major gifts, at cmunson@txamfoundation.com or 979-845-7558, or give online at give.am/SupportAggieMusic.
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Media contact: Timothy Rhea, Director of Bands & Head of Music Activities, at (979) 845-3529 or trhea@tamu.edu; or Elena Watts, Division of Marketing & Communications, at (979) 458-8412 or elenaw@tamu.edu.
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