Good morning, good morning, good morning, welcome, welcome, welcome time
now for community connection and with me, I have Mary Lynn mem right here
from OKM. And it has been a busy, busy, busy week black
time. We saw you tickets flying out all over the place, people getting
all lined up for the mostly Mozart event, the fortyth anniversary of OKM.
It is good morning Tom, Good morning to you boy. It's been kind
of fast and furious. It has been fun. Last Thursday we kicked off
and launched our fortieth anniversary festival Kay and we had a nice little leap into
a party at Oka Music. Gave way over twenty nine tickets or sets of
tickets, i should say, and prizes and so that was very fun and
festive and we appreciate everyone who came in and who called in and gosh,
we're just really excited about this season man, gunness. Thanks. We're going
to start out at Wall Rock and we've got to two fantastic acts coming up.
Yes, we have our very own, very special young lady, Joselle
Dobson. You guys got to find her for finding it. It's going to
be probably a platinum recording artist. I know. I've asked her, can
I be your agent? Can I be your attorney? Sure? And hopefully
she'll say yes. No. Jasella is an intern. She's still in terms
for US at Okay perform. She's also studying at OSU Atlahoma State University,
and so she'll be returning to US this summer. Last year, people got
to sort of hear her Alicia Key vibes with some also country songs sort of
thrown into there in honor of Lee Greenwood. This year, you're going to
get to hear the classical side of her performance. She'll be performing violin and
then as I understand, maybe a couple of arias. I'm not sure exactly
what she has planned. She's working on it. She's been working with her
music professors, and so we're very excited to hear that. Jasella is just
a lovely person, but hers are amazing. You know, she can play
that violin like most people just walk or breathe. It's just it's that natural
to her. Well, and she's just you know, it's funny. I
was talking to her earlier this week and she's just very humble. We're trying
to get a fellow students of hers to do some of our showcase. One
of her professors is also going to come up and perform. And I was
piano recital and so I was talking to her and she was just talking about
a concert that they have coming up on Thursday, and she was like,
Oh, Mary Lynn, You've got to hear this one young man on violin.
He's just so awesome. And you know, she's just always in awe
of other musicians and recognizes their talents, but she never talks about her own.
Oh yeah, you never know. If you're having a conversation with you
never know that she could play darn or any instrument and can sing like an
angel well. And she is an extremely hard worker, and so we're very
proud of her. We are very excited to be able to she is opening
up for the Manhattan Chamber Players, and the Manhattan Chamber Players are an eighteen
orchestra, and we're very excited about this and talking to their representatives and agents.
These guys are all friends in some former fashion. They all play in
other symphonies orchestra's chamber ensembles for their real jobs, but they decided they all
went to Juilliard and some of the other schools or met at music festivals over
the years, and so they've all become very good friends, and they decided
to form this ensemble, the Manhattan Chamber of Players, and so we are
very excited. Two of the young men in this are also an usher quartet
who will be in our finale. Wow. But their talent level is off
the charts. It is off the charts. They are amazing. One of
our patrons said, if she could afford it, she would have them perform
for her every night and play for her before she went to sleep. So
these guys like the traveling Willbury's of classical music. Yeah, I mean,
they are absolutely amazing. So if the two out of the eighteen or anything
to come, I am extremely excited for this group of young musicians who I
think are going to be just It's going to be a beautiful night, a
little bit of Mozart, a little bit of bock, so you can't go
wrong there. And then of course out at wool Rock under the Stars,
we'll have a nice fireworks finale. So of course we'll have the food trucks
there, a lot of kids stuff. Ticket prices vary. You can get
a VIP if the parking is really important to you. And for those new
to Bartlesville or maybe didn't know to get good parking, to get the reserved
parking, used to have to pay big bucks, like five thousand dollars or
more for a ticket or not a ticket, but a package to be able
to get your parking. Now you can pay seventy five dollars, have a
reserve seat, have really nice VIP parking. And so we hope that that's
a nice That is a huge discount compared to forty years ago, and we
really hope that that folks will enjoy that. We also have a student discount,
a senior discount. You can come for thirty five dollars. We have
general admission for fifty So it is there is not a bad seat. It's
it's going to be beautiful. We will be down again at Clyde Lake this
year of returning to where we first started for the festival, and so it
should be really pretty. Uh So we encourage people to get their tickets and
uh get ready to have some wonderful time out at Woolrock, a beautiful concert.
And that's just kicking things off. That's just kicking things off. Then
the next night we moved to Tulsa, where we will hear Jenny Lynn and
Adam Tidler performed. Jenny Lynn is returning to us. She's a Steinway artist,
is just a wonderful, wonderful pianist, also an amazing person. She
is just fantastic. We love Jenny Jenny. When we Rose and I went,
gosh, I guess it was maybe last year about this time, maybe
a little bit later, Jenny was in Tulsa performing for Steinway. Part of
their being a Steinway artist means they travel around the country and performance. Steiny,
they's got to be for Steinway to put their name on your ship.
Yes, you do, but they go around the country and perform. And
so Rose and I went and met her and watched her piano recital, was
lovely, and then took her out to dinner and we were talking about the
fortieth anniversary in Mozart and Pieces and we were like, Ginny, you should
come back and then you can do your children's performance too, and she was
like, oh, I would love to. And so we've known for quite
some time that she was coming. But as we were getting out of all
of the details finalized, she said, Maryland, I've been traveling and performing
with Adam Tidler. Would it be okay if I brought him? I think
you guys are going to love him. And so we are not going to
only have one amazing concert pianist, but we're also going to have upcoming young
star. He's won all kinds of awards, Adam Tindler, who is a
Yamaha artist. So we have both pianos represented and we're very excited about that.
So that will be at Casha Hall that evening on Saturday, June eighth.
The Wool Rock Concert, which I don't think I said, is on
Friday, June's seventh, and so people can purchase tickets again. We have
some senior discounts, student discounts, we have vip uh and general admission.
Goodness. How do we get our tickets here? You can go to okaymusic
dot org. You can call nine one eight three three six nine nine zero
zero, or you can come into the office at four fifteen South Dewey and
get your tickets. Ros and I would be happy to sell you tickets sugar
Plum Shop, and the sugar Plump Shop is still open. We have so
much merchandise for spring, summer, Easter. It's it's very festive right now,
it's very bunny esque. Now we're going to bring me finale back to
Bartlehill, that is true. I do need to mention on Saturday night,
opening will be Tulsa burg On Orchestra and they, yes, they're amazing.
Karen Nape, who is the co person in charge of the orchestra, is
an amazing musician composer herself, but she and I work together every year to
try to showcase her kids and give them an opportunity to perform. So they
will open up as people are coming in and getting ready for the big concert,
they'll get to hear these kids perform, and they do an excellent job.
They are truly amazing musicians. They play at at at the Center a
couple years ahek they did, Yes, they played yeah, and that was
fun for them because normally they're doing classical and so that was a little bit.
They helped us perform Little Beauty. Well they actually performed forties and fifties
music Billie Holiday tribute, but no, they did a fantastic job. This
time they'll be going back. They've already been working on a couple of pieces
by Mozart, so we'll be very excited to hear them, but yes,
now then going to Sunday on June ninth, we will have our finale and
it will be at the Refinery. I have to keep training myself. I
love it the play on words and the beautiful venue, the Johnstones Haair Building.
We will have our finale conclude concert and it will be by Uesher Quartet
and so very excited to have eshercore Tet return. They are amazing, amazing
musicians. It's going to sound great in that room. Yeah, So we're
going to open up with a little cocktail party upstairs and then take it downstairs
to hear the concert, and then at intermission we'll have a little bit of
dessert and coffee. But I am looking very forward to hearing them perform again.
They are just absolutely amazing musicians. And again, people can go on
to our website okmusic dot org to buy tickets. You can click You'll see
there's a banner that scrolls across it has the festival. You can click on
that, or you can go to the drop down box on top and you'll
see where there's a festival link they can click on. There's also a festival
ticket link they can click on to go directly to tickets, or if they
want to read about the musicians and learn more about what pieces are being performed,
you just click on the one that says festival and it gives you all
of the information. They can call Rose and I at nine one eight six
nine nine zero zero, or they can come to the office at four fifteen
South Dewey. Oh my goodness, takes you know. This is a powerful
line. Even though it's just three days, we're going back to the roots
of it all here we are. We've had a lot of questions about that.
People are like, oh no, why are you only going three days?
And we said, well, that's where it started. And so we
thought for something fun, for something nostalgic, we would pack it in.
We have so much Showcase, which we'll release on April first, but we'll
have Friday, Saturday, Sunday we'll be packed with Showcase. So we'll still
have a lot of concerts that folks can come to. They won't be missing
out on anything. But we thought it would be nostalgic to take it back
to the three day And I don't know, if I'm not sure, do
I hold it up there? To hold it up there? The art that
just so we found our original program and this is what the very first program
all look like, and so we emulated that. We took it back and
you know, we're just trying to celebrate forty years worth of amazing music,
amazing community coming together, world renowned artist, and just it's a celebration.
Forty years is a long time, it is, and so you know,
hopefully folks will come out and enjoy it and support it. You know,
it's it's something that if people don't come, then unfortunately it won't it won't
be here. So we definitely want folks to come out. I mean,
what an amazing community to have a ballet, to have an orchestra, to
have a festival that is world renowned that's been going for forty years, to
have children's musical theater, I mean, we are blessed. And then the
beautiful community center. So we just really have to support these things or we're
going to lose them. Now Maryland, I know we didn't bring any materials
in on this, but just a quick reminder folks want to check out,
especially for kids. That's on the website too. Yes, especially for kids.
We have a huge lineup. It's it's even more packed than it was
last year. We'll be launching the passport and all of the nice and stuff
on April first, but it kicks off on May thirty first, goes through
June sixth and it is very filled. We have puppet shows, we have
story and music time, we have art and music immersion, we have piano
recitals. We have something very special that we'll talk about on April first that
I don't want to spoil that. No, I don't want to spoil that.
No, but the passport's actually already done. It's ready to go,
and so when I come back in April, I'll bring that and show the
audience on Facebook. But it's pretty cool, very nice. We're very excited.
Rose has worked very hard, and we have so many prizes to give
away too. I think we have over gosh. I know, it's like
twenty prizes to give away during this event, and then a grand finale prize
so that you get your passport, you go to each event, get a
stamp, you get entered in for a drawing at each event, and then
you get you know, fifteen twenty if you've gone to all events, how
many of events you've gone to, you get that many tickets into the Grand
finale and to win. Yeah. Oh and then I forgot to say,
we're going to be on the radio again here doing boogie bingo, so I
think we have a lot of prizes for that too. And thank you for
coming in and thank you for letting us be a part of OKM. Thank
you, Thank you guys for all your support. Thanks for listening to one
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