Bill Text: TX HR721 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Recognizing the Reflections Concert Choir on the occasion of its performance at the State Capitol on March 9, 2013.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Passed) 2013-03-06 - Reported enrolled [HR721 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HR721-Introduced.html

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83R13129 NEB-D
By: Zedler H.R. No. 721

R E S O L U T I O N
WHEREAS, The Reflections Concert Choir is performing at the
State Capitol in Austin on March 9, 2013; and
WHEREAS, Founded in 1997 as the Reflections Home School Choir
with 11 members from Tarrant County and the surrounding area, the
program has grown over the years to include choirs for small
children, preteens, teenagers, and adults; and
WHEREAS, The Reflections Concert Choir shares a message of
faith with its musical choices, emphasizing religious themes with
seasonally appropriate selections, and it performs patriotic works
as well; the choir appears regularly at churches, banquets,
retirement homes, and other venues in the Dallas/Fort Worth area
and has performed at two Republican State Conventions, the Old Post
Office Pavilion and the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.,
and a number of military bases in different states; members sing at
the Dallas/Fort Worth National Cemetery on Memorial Day and
Veterans Day and with the Irving Symphonic Band at its annual
Christmas concert; and
WHEREAS, Ably led by choir director Craig Armstrong, the
choir has previously sung at the State Capitol and has also toured
the country nine times and recorded seven CDs; and
WHEREAS, The Reflections Concert Choir has been delighting
and inspiring audiences for more than a decade and a half, and it is
indeed a pleasure to welcome its gifted and hardworking members to
Austin; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 83rd Texas
Legislature hereby recognize the Reflections Concert Choir on the
occasion of its performance at the State Capitol on March 9, 2013,
and extend to the members and director of the choir sincere best
wishes for the future; and, be it further
RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be
prepared for the choir as an expression of high regard by the Texas
House of Representatives.