Kate McGee, The Texas Tribune
April 22, 2021
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The University of Texas Longhorn Band performed during the 2017 Fiesta Flambeau Parade April 29. The school song, “The Eyes of Texas,” is always a crowd favorite, and was penned by a student from San Antonio in 1903.Edward A. Ornelas /San Antonio Express-News
Next fall, University of Texas at Austin students who play on the football team or watch in the stands can choose whether to sing the “The Eyes of Texas” at the end of the game.
But members of the Longhorn Band will be required to perform the university’s embattled alma mater, according to a press release posted on the Butler School of Music website Wednesday.
The Longhorn Band at Texas football game against Louisiana Tech University on Aug. 31, 2019. The new approach was born out of ongoing financial issues and concerns with âThe Eyes of Texas,â which ramped up in earnest last June in the wake of the death of George Floyd, a Black man murdered by a white Minneapolis police officer. Credit: Eddie Gaspar/The Daily Texan
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Next fall, University of Texas at Austin students who play on the football team or watch in the stands can choose whether to sing the âThe Eyes of Texasâ at the end of the game.
UT-Austin’s Longhorn Band will be forced to play “The Eyes of Texas” song that’s become a source of fierce division
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Next fall, University of Texas at Austin students who play on the football team or watch in the stands can choose whether to sing the “The Eyes of Texas” at the end of the game.
But members of the Longhorn Band will be required to perform the university’s embattled alma mater, according to a press release posted on the Butler School of Music website Wednesday.
The Daily Texan via The Texas Tribune The Longhorn Band at Texas football game against Louisiana Tech University on Aug. 31, 2019. The new approach was born out of ongoing financial issues and concerns with “The Eyes of Texas,” which ramped up in earnest last June in the wake of the death of George Floyd, a Black man murdered by a white Minneapolis police officer.
Next fall, University of Texas at Austin students who play on the football team or watch in the stands can choose whether to sing the “The Eyes of Texas” at the end of the game.
But members of the Longhorn Band will be required to perform the university’s embattled alma mater, according to a press release posted on the Butler School of Music website Wednesday.