Tatge, a Norman native, has been playing with OKC Phil for the last 25 years.
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Tony DeSare channels Frank Sinatra with the help of Oklahoma City Philharmonic
“I look at these shows as a way for us all to put matters out of our minds that day — including myself — and give ourselves over to the music,” he said.
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Learning by doing
Sarah Chang, one of the world’s greatest violinists, returns to OKC to perform with the Oklahoma City Philharmonic as part of a night of darkly romantic music including Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2 and Max Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1. She debuted with the New York Philharmonic at age 8, which led to a successful […]
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The Tao of Conrad
<span style=" Arial” ,”sans-serif””=””> The concert will open with the “Rounds for String Orchestra” by American composer David Diamond, an optimistic piece that reflects the American spirit of the mid-century, followed by Felix Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 4, a sunny piece inspired by a trip to Italy that the German composer took in 1831. Tao also […]
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Soundcheck: Classic Series Concert Previews
Saturday marks the second of the group’s eight Classic Series Concert Previews, which are lectures that take place before showtime, in which local musicians and educators offer insights beyond what attendees will find in the program. At 7 p.m., an hour before pianist Jon Kimura Parker joins the Philharmonic for “Two Aspects of Romanticism,” Sergio […]
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A pretty house is like a Symphony
Now, it has been newly renovated for the 38th annual Symphony Show House and Gardens event, benefiting the Oklahoma City Philharmonic and its music-education programs. The roughly 15,000-square-foot Nichols Hills home will be open to the public for tours starting Sunday and ending May 22. The house is decorated with some of the most innovative […]