Sea Cadets Aid USS Tulsa Commissioning

摘要

The attention of the noisy crown in the Commandant's Room at the Marines' Memorial Club in San Francisco was captured by the spectacular performance of Boomer Sooner, a musical composition near and dear to the hearts of Oklaho-mans at the chairman's reception. The USNSCC Band of the West went on to perform a music set that included the theme from "Oklahoma!" — much to delight of the ship's sponsor, Kathy Taylor, the former mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the event, the Feb. 16 commissioning in San Francisco of the Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Tulsa. Taylor later commented that she thought the band played at "symphony level." The band's versatility was further demonstrated that night when four of the musicians peeled off to perform Color Guard duties before the official program began.