Aviation View July 2023

94 AVIATION VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 3, ISSUE 2 substantial number of events every year,” he said, “along with our public library and our City-owned auditorium. We have a 1,400-seat auditorium that I actually run for the City.” That would be the Greenville Municipal Auditorium (or GMA). For the past 84 years, the auditorium has entertained folks of all ages, with performances by USO travelling shows during the World War II era and such legends as jazz great Duke Ellington; the King of Rock and Roll, Elvis Presley; classical pianist Van Cliburn; and country music giants Loretta Lynn and Charlie Pride. Today, the GMA is home to Greenville Theatre Works and the Greenville Family Theatre. And according to Theodore Harvey, a noted composer and the associate principal cellist of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the DSO performs at the auditorium thrice annually. Harvey recently talked about the GMA’s newly renovated green room. Paris Junior College