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May 16th, 12 Posted in Events, THS Thursdays, Uncategorized, concert, music at the mansion, program Add your comment!
Music at the Mansion – May 2012
May 15th, 12 Posted in Events, Uncategorized, concert, music at the mansion, program Add your comment!
Music at the Mansion
May 17th – 1:30 pm
This month’s concert features three well know Tulsa musicians:
Paul Stefan Ort, pianist and violinist performing:
*Brahms: Piano Sonata No. 3 in F Minor, Op. 5: II - Andante espressivo
*Saint-Saëns: Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
Donald and Barron Ryan, pianists
*Performing pieces in a variety of styles
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Program is free with admission:
$5 Adults * $3 Seniors
Members, Children & Students FREE
THS Thursday – Green Country Jazz Artists
May 10th, 12 Posted in Events, THS Thursdays, Uncategorized, concert, program Add your comment!
The THS Thursday program for May 10th will be presented in partnership with the Chet Baker Foundation. A lecture will discuss Green Country Jazz artists including: Barney Kessel, Cecil McBee, and Sam Rivers.
Program begins at 6:30 and the museum stays open until 8:00.
THS Thursdays – The Joesf Glaude Group
Mar 19th, 12 Posted in Events, Uncategorized, concert, program Add your comment!
THS Thursdays – the Tulsa Sound & Beyond with John Wooley
Mar 13th, 12 Posted in Events, Uncategorized, program Add your comment!
Admit One: A Tour of Music and History – a series on Oklahoma Music presented in conjunction with the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame
Tulsa’s musical claims to fame, beginning with western swing and how it was, for a time, eclipsed by rock ’n’ roll and the guys who later formed the backbone of the Tulsa Sound will be shared Thursday, March 15 at a special Tulsa Historical Society program. Those who contributed to the Tulsa Sound and folks like Steve Ripley, who had a foot in both the Tulsa Sound and Red Dirt camps, will be discussed. John Wooley, entertainment writer, radio and television music expert and a Class of 2003 Inductee into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame, will facilitate.
Tulsa’s musical claims to fame, beginning with western swing and how it was, for a time, eclipsed by rock ’n’ roll and the guys who later formed the backbone of the Tulsa Sound will be shared Thursday, March 15 at a special Tulsa Historical Society program. Those who contributed to the Tulsa Sound and folks like Steve Ripley, who had a foot in both the Tulsa Sound and Red Dirt camps, will be discussed. John Wooley, entertainment writer, radio and television music expert and a Class of 2003 Inductee into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame, will facilitate.
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JOHN WOOLEY is the author, co-author, or editor of 22 books, including his current novel Ghost Band and the non-fiction From the Blue Devils to Red Dirt: The Colors of Oklahoma Music, one of only three books commissioned by the Oklahoma Centennial Commission and a finalist for the 2007 Oklahoma Book Award. Wooley’s earlier horror-fantasy tale, Dark Within, was a finalist for the 2001 Oklahoma Book Award for Best Novel, and his first, Old Fears — co-written with fellow newspaper writer Ron Wolfe — was optioned by both Wes Craven and Paramount Pictures and is currently under option with former Paramount vice-president Brian Witten. Other recent works include the Rogers State University centennial book, 100 Years on the Hill and Starmaker, written with country-music impresario Jim Halsey.
Wooley has just completed Shot in Oklahoma, a history of made-in-Oklahoma movies for the University of Oklahoma Press, and a book about Craven, titled Wes Craven: A Man and His Nightmares, for John Wiley and Sons in New York. Current projects include a history of the Cain’s Ballroom, as-told-to biographies of famed Osage rancher John Hughes and Will Rogers’ grandniece Coke Meyer, and the play Time Changes Everything, a story of two imaginary meetings between Oklahoma music icons Bob Wills and Woody Guthrie. Written with Thomas Conner and featuring the Red Dirt Rangers, Time Changes Everything has been staged at SummerStage in Tulsa, OK Mozart in Bartlesville, and in Muskogee and Woodward.
Wooley also penned the script for the made-for-TV movie Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective, the award-winning independent film Cafe Purgatory, and the recent documentary Bill Boyce – Money Actor, along with writing comic books (including the Plan Nine from Outer Space graphic novel), trading cards, and thousands of magazine and newspaper stories, most of them in conjunction with his work as the music and horror-movie writer for the Tulsa World, a position he held from 1983 through most of 2006. From the early ’80s to 2009, he wrote well over 100 pieces for the horror-movie magazine Fangoria. He is currently a contributing editor and columnist for Oklahoma Magazine and an adjunct lecturer in the American Studies Program at OSU-Tulsa, teaching classes on horror movies and Oklahoma music and films.
He is also the producer and host of the highly rated Swing on This, Tulsa’s only western-swing radio program, heard every Saturday night on NPR affiliate KWGS (89.5 FM).
Wooley was chosen to write Roy Clark’s coffee-table-style tour book, celebrating his 60 years in show business, and to emcee the Will Rogers Rotary Club’s “Good Ride, Cowboy” event, honoring Garth Brooks – where Brooks told the crowd, “you might not know it, but John Wooley is a star.”
As a result of his efforts on behalf of his state’s music and musical figures, Wooley became, in 2003, the first – and so far only – writer to be inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame. In 2009, he was also an inductee into both the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame and the Oklahoma Cartoonists Hall of Fame, the latter for his comic-book writing.
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Program FREE with admission
THS & OMHOF Members FREE (memberships may be purchased at the door)
Children & Students FREE
Adults – $5
Seniors – $3
Music at the Mansion, Jan. 2012
Jan 12th, 12 Posted in Events, concert, family, music at the mansion, music in the mansion, program Add your comment!
January Music at the Mansion Concert
Thursday, January 19th at 1:30 p.m.
Amy Cottingham
Pianist - Vocalist - Teacher
Featuring a variety of music including original compositions, classical, jazz, rags, tangos and popular music.
Also featured will be Winona Fifield, violinist.
Amy’s Bio:
Amy Cottingham began playing the piano and violin at age three. She sings, composes, arranges, transcribes, teaches and performs classical and jazz. Her compositions of varying styles have been performed in Tulsa by the Signature Symphony and by local schools. Amy has recorded with other artists and has produced a CD of
her own compositions. With a Bachelors degree in Piano Performance, she has won numerous state and regional piano competitions. She has performed multiple solo concerts and traveled around the world performing with vocal and instrumental ensembles. She holds a Masters degree in Orchestral Conducting from Oklahoma State University.
Amy performs regularly with the Signature Symphony and the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra. She has been invited to give solo recitals for the Brown Bag It series at the Performing Arts Center, the Music at the Mansion Series at the Historical Society, as well as recitals for church concert series and retirement communities. She has also been invited to perform alongside other artists in Performance Plus and Tulsa Fest, under the direction of Dr. Barry Epperley. Amy has also been featured at the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame numerous times as a solo performer with her own show and as a guest on the Annual Keyboard Concert.
Amy has been teaching private piano lessons for fifteen years and manages a full-time music studio out of her home, with many students placing in piano competitions and going on to be music majors in college. She is an active member of the Tulsa Accredited Music Teachers Association, Oklahoma Music Teachers Association, Music Teachers National Association (with whom she is nationally certified) and the Hyechka Music Club, where she performs regularly. As an active accompanist, Amy’s experience ranges from musicals, school choirs and adult choirs to junior and senior recitals, auditions and professional recitals.
Price: $5 adults, $3 seniors, students and Historical Society members free.