One of the more marvelous things about Oklahoma City University, is that there are performances going on here virtually every night!! Most of the events are free and open to the general public. A few of the more special events require a minimal entrance fee. This blog is intended to be a public service for Oklahoma City University Faculty and Staff as well as for the general Oklahoma City Community. Concert life here is really one of the greatest hidden gems of the City and for families looking for professional caliber entertainment at free or easily affordable rates, Oklahoma City University is a truly exceptional center of live entertainment! Come, enjoy the amazing professional-level talent our students have and admire the expertise of our visiting artists and faculty performances!November 6, 8pm.
TURTLE ISLAND STRING QUARTET--PETREE
tickets $20 405-208-5227 or www.okcu.edu/tickets
This group has been together 30 years and they use groove-based rhythmic techniques that create new arrangements of cool jazz standards and this concert will be all about blurring the lines between classical music and jazz!! This concert is the beginning of our illustrious Distinguished Artist's series.
November 7th, 8 pm.
OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA--PETREE
free and open to the public!
Under the baton of Eric Garcia, the Oklahoma City University Symphony Orchestra performs Johannes Brahms's grand and glorious Fourth Symphony. Brahms was fifty-two in 1885 when this symphony was written, and this work is at once a summation of its composer’s learning and technique, and a work of art that for all its complexities cuts as close to the deepest feelings of the heart as music can. Brahms's Fourth Symphony displays his essence most completely and he melds form and function into a perfect balance. In his first three symphonies Brahms took every effort to shape the symphony into a genuinely personal statement, he went even farther in the Fourth—farther than anyone since Beethoven. Particularly in the final movement, he wrote music not simply personal and not simply contemporary, but music that heralded a new future for symphonic music. The orchestra will also perform Anton Webern's Passacaglia for Orchestra, Op. 1., which was the composers first truly original statement that marked his independence from four years' study with Arnold Schoenberg. It was written in 1908 and is Webern's most played and most easily understood work. Join us for an exciting evening of orchestral music!
November 8, 2:30-3:00 pm
2015 OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY ALUMNI BAND--ATRIUM
free and open to the public!
It's time for the FOURTH ANNUAL Oklahoma City University Alumni Band! Spread the word!
Repertoire:
John Philip Sousa – Bullets and Bayonets
Anton Bruckner - Hymn of Praise
Vincent Persichetti – Symphony for Band: II. Adagio sostenuto
Percy Grainger – Lincolnshire Posy: I, II, IV, VI
James Norris - Hail, Alma Mater
November 8, 6 pm
CRYSTAL HAITH SENIOR OBOE RECITAL--SMALL REHEARSAL HALL
free and open to the public!
30 minutes of sweet oboe and English horn bliss featuring pieces by Telemann, Fauré, Haydn, and Nielsen.
November 8, 8 pm
STEPHANIE FEEBACK JUNIOR VOICE RECITAL--SMALL REHEARSAL HALL
free and open to the public!
November 10, 7:30 pm
OKC SYMPHONIC BAND CONCERT--PETREE
free and open to the public!
November 13, 8 pm
NATHAN GUNN, BARITONE; JULIE JORDAN GUNN, PIANO--KIRKPATRICK
tickets $20 405-208-5227 or www.okcu.edu/tickets
Nathan Gunn is an operatic baritone and this concert is the second in our Distinguished Artist Series. His voice is truly phenomenal and the repertoire he will cover during this recital will range from operatic arias to popular musical theater tunes. Please come and enjoy the mighty heft and richness of one of the leading baritone voices in the opera world today.
November 15, 3 pm
PAVEL NERSESSIAN, PIANO--PETREE
tickets $20 405-208-5227 or www.okcu.edu/tickets
OCU’s annual Mae Ruth Swanson Memorial Concert will feature pianist Pavel Nersessian who has been a touring pianist since the age of 8. He has won the Beethoven Competition in Vienna, the Paloma O’Shea Competition in Santander, and the Tokyo Competition. The Boston Musical Intelligencer raved of a recent performance that Nersessian “has chops aplenty: major powers, accurate marksmanship, ultra light touch with many shades and colors of quiet, and instrument-bouncing dynamic range. Quickly evident were a certain aplomb, easy competence taken for granted by him and us, dash, plus a degree of casual seriousness or serious casualness to it all.” This concert is another of our Distinguished Artist's series concert events.
November 15, 8 pm
JENNIFER-MIHEE SONG AND JAEHEE KIM DUO PIANO RECITAL--PETREE
free and open to the public!
Song and Kim are two very accomplished professional pianists living in Oklahoma City with successful piano studios filled with award-winning students. They display their virtuosity tonight by performing works by Schubert, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Debussy, and Lutoslawski in a duo piano recital.
All of these performances are at Oklahoma City University in the beautiful, handicapped accessible Wanda L. Bass School of Music. For the ticketed events, please call the ticket office at Oklahoma City University at 405-208-5227 or www.okcu.edu/tickets. If you have any other types of questions about the events please call 405-208-5474.
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