In order to protect our audiences, musicians, staff, and all those who we serve our community and in cooperation with community-wide efforts to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, the OKCPHIL has made the difficult decision to cancel the remaining concerts of our 2019-20 Season. We have been closely monitoring the situation and observing protocols for […]
Alexander Mickelthwate
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American variations
Minimalism in a New World 8 p.m. Jan. 11 Civic Center Music Hall 201 N. Walker Ave. okcphil.org 405-594-8300 $19-$82 What do composers Frank Zappa, Philip Glass and Antonín Dvořák have in common? “First of all, I really love all of them,” said Oklahoma City Philharmonic musical director and conductor Alexander Mickelthwate. “I wanted to […]
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One Eno
Independent Creativity 8 p.m. Saturday Civic Center Music Hall 201 N. Walker Ave. okcphil.org 405-594-8300 $19-$83 Freemason symbolism and a spacey soundtrack created by an “ambient god” are included in Oklahoma City Philharmonic’s upcoming concert celebrating artistic freedom. Independent Creativity 8 p.m. Saturday at Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N. Walker Ave., features Leonard Bernstein’s […]
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Swan song
Maestro Joel Levine’s farewell concert8 p.m. Saturday Thelma Gaylord Performing Arts Theatre Civic Center Music Hall 201 N. Walker Ave. okcphil.org 405-594-8300 $19-$73 There is no telling which direction fate might take us. The angst of uncertainty is palpable in the first movement of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4, penned by the Russian composer […]
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Heat conductor
Oklahoma City Philharmonic’s 2018-19 season sounds off Saturday with a classic selection featuring Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in D minor conducted by a new leader in music director Alexander Mickelthwate. Though the baton was officially passed to Mickelthwate in May 2017, the German-born maestro has spent the last year acclimating to OKC, diving […]
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Independent celebrations
Last week, the US withdrew from the United Nations Human Rights Council while images of refugee children locked in cages were virtually inescapable on every media platform. So packing a picnic and passing out sparklers to commemorate living in the “land of the free” might feel funny this Fourth of July. But there is this. […]
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Back in black
Ben Folds w/ OKC Phil 7:30-10 p.m. Tuesday Civic Center Music Hall 201 N. Walker Ave.0 okcphil.org 405-842-5387 $29-$283 A sold-out concert nearly seven years ago with superbly talented pianist and suburban poet laureate Ben Folds proved an important moment for Oklahoma City Philharmonic, which gained citywide pop cred overnight through the collaboration. As Folds […]
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OKC Phil announces new music director
In late May, Oklahoma City Philharmonic named Alexander Mickelthwate its music director designate. Current music director Maestro Joel Levine, who founded the orchestra in 1988, plans to retire in May 2018. The appointment comes after a season-long tryout process in which OKC Phil brought in six total candidates, including Mickelthwate, to guest conduct the orchestra. […]
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Oklahoma City Philharmonic will select its new music director from six guest conductors
The new conductor and music director will replace Maestro Joel Levine, who founded OKC Phil in the ’80s.