Following last season’s Gloria by Poulenc concert, the Brazosport Choral Union will open its new season with another collaboration with the Brazosport Symphony Orchestra.

The concert, which is on Saturday, Oct. 8, will be the season-opening pops concert for the symphony, featuring all patriotic music led by conductor John Ricarte. The

Brazosport College Jazz Singers will join the orchestra for Darmon Meader’s arrangement of “The Star Spangled Banner,” with orchestration by Rodney Mason, current director of the chorus.

The full chorus will join on a tribute to the victims of September 11, 2001, “As All the Heavens were a Bell.” The Jazz Singers will be featured on a setting of the famous Emma Lazarus poem, immortalized at the base of the Statue of Liberty, “Give me Your Tired, Your Poor.”

The first half of the concert will conclude with the full chorus and orchestra on a new arrangement of “America, The Beautiful” by Rodney Mason, written for the Brazosport Choral Union and Brazosport Symphony Orchestra in memory of Dr. Donald Pugh, founding director of the Brazosport Community Chorus (now Choral Union) and his choral legacy.

The Brazosport Choral Union is a combined choir made up of the Brazosport College Singers, Chamber Choir and Civic Chorus.

The concert will be at 7:30 p.m. in the performance hall at The Clarion at Brazosport College, Tickets are $15 for adults , $10 for students and can be purchased at the Clarion box office from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday and Friday, and 2 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Saturday.