GENTRI and BYU Wind Symphony Celebrate the Home of the Free, Land of the Brave, this Veteran’s Day
Utah County Community gathered to honor veterans with the BYU School of Music’s “For Heroes Proved: A Veterans Day Celebration with Special Guest GENTRI.”
Audience members from all armed forces, their families and other patriots gave multiple standing ovations to the tenor trio GENTRI; BYU Wind Symphony, under the direction of Shawn Smith; and guest speakers.
Speakers included Provo Mayor Michelle Kafusi and Colonel Amos L. Wright, a 100-year-old Army veteran and innovative engineer who has served his country in three wars and has overseen the construction of numerous temples and meetinghouses for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Wright is pictured here with composer and narrator Andrew Maxfield.
Provo Mayor Michelle Kafusi spoke of personal ties to the event as a Provo native, BYU alum and one who lost her rother David, an Air Force veteran in service.
The composer Andrew Maxfield narrated throughout the evening and reminded us that, “The ties that bind us are stronger than the stresses that divide us.”