In the past, we've done a classical concert in Odessa and then done a classical concert in Midland. Our thinking is by putting the concerts between both cities, we will get the audience from both.

With our Masterworks we are featuring either youth or people who have a tie to this area. We open our Masterworks with a 12-year-old pianist who has been studying at Juilliard since he was 6. And he's the real deal. He's phenomenal.

We are doing an organ symphony, and we need that instrument. First Presbyterian Church has one of the largest and best organs in all of West Texas.

We're opening with the tribute to Bob Wills, and prior to that we're having a barbecue.

It seats 1,100 and the stage itself is almost big enough by itself to fit the whole orchestra on. We are very excited about it. It has multi-media capabilities with screens on either side of the stage.

Over the past decade we have improved the forecasting of La Nina and El Nino so that we can now predict these events and their expected climatic impacts on different regions with 70 to 80 percent accuracy a year before they occur,