December 9, 2005
A Cowboy Goes to the Symphony
Billy Joe (Red) McCombs, a hulking Texas tycoon who breeds longhorns, drills for oil, and buys and sells football and basketball teams, is not the likeliest classical-music lover. But the symphony isn't bad, he says, "when I can't get Willie Nelson."
A few weeks ago in Austin, Mr. McCombs, who even at 78 has a thatch of auburn hair and a college-football lineman's frame, took to the stage of the Bates Recital Hall to narrate a symphony commissioned for the University of Texas Wind
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