Stephen F. Austin State University will turn 100 years old in September. The celebration happens to also fall as they are joining the University of Texas System and opening a new Fine Arts building. To celebrate the confluence of these events, SFA commissioned a large new work for choir and orchestra on texts by Karle Wilson Baker. The resulting work, titled “How Proud the Pines” will be the centerpiece of the inaugural program in the newly-renovated Griffith Fine Arts Building.