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And welcome back to part two of
our community connection right here on K one.

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The one you drafts, gentlemen.
Heting here with me is John Jenkins.

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He's with Barnisville Symphony Orchestra. We've
got a big old gala coming up,

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don't we. We do tell us
a little bit about it. Yes,

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thank you, thanks for having me
first of all, Oh our pleasure.

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Yeah. We're calling the gala Passport
to Spain and it will take place

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October twenty eighth, Saturday, at
seven point thirty at the Barnesville Community Center.

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Now I'm known as the Center.
We have an exciting program, so

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we'll have of course, we'll have
Ronald Radford as the guest entertainer mil guitar

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master. We'll also have a live
auction, of course. But the highlight

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of the event is we're honoring Miss
Betty Williams as the BSO Britst Cultural brist

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Prize Cultural Award recipient for this year. Wow. That's great. You know,

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that's always a special thing. We
gave out a nice award last year,

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and we recognize people who have just
been so integral in getting us started

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and keeping us going absolutely. Last
year we recognized Miss Nannie Role. Yeah,

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she's been a pillar cultural pillar of
the city as well, and we

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will our entree is being catered by
a crossing. Second, we'll have the

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option of vegetarian or seafood. Kai. Wow, nice, are you pulling

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out all the stops? Aren't you
absolutely special? Evening now the gala,

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of course, we can find this
on the website, but we also want

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to remind people that not only can
you get tickets and when one of those

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run, yes, the tickets individual
tickets are one twenty five that's good,

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and you can purchase the table for
as little as one thousand dollars. That's

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nice, and that's eight people,
very good. And you can also become

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a good sponsor of the orchestra.
I think the number sixty six comes to

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mind. Yes, this is our
sixty sixth anniversary, and we have a

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fundraising campaign going on in the season
where we're asking our supporters whether or not

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you come to a concert for sixty
six dollars per month for the duration of

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the season in honor of our sixth
anniversary. We started off as a Phillip

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Symphony and so that's the significance of
the sixty six aniversary. Here's the tie

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in. Yeah, well this is
great. Sixty six for the sixty sixty

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year. Just do it every month. You're not gonna miss folks. You're

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gonna put You're gonna spend it on
stuff anyway, Spend it on something that's

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going to enrich the culture of our
community. Really keep the arts alive and

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vibrant. Yeah, and that we're
around for many generations to come. Oh.

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Indeed, now, not only are
you the executive director, you're a

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performer as well. I do.
I have not been performing as much lately.

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I've been focusing mostly on my executive
director role. Yeah, I understand,

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I know how that can take you
away from it, right, But

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what do you play? I played
trombone primarily. Wow, my oldest grandson

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is playing that. Okay. Great. First of all, he thought it

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was fun because he could make funny
noises. Well, yeah, sure,

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And then all of a sudden he
realized, you know, that's an instrument

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that's quite important in the orchestra.
And now he's taking it very very seriously,

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and he's been doing very well at
contests. It's great. He's really

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taken this on a very very seriously. It all started with just kind of

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goofing around and says it's got some
potential here. Yeah, it is a

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special instrument because, apart from the
cello, it's the closest instrument to the

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human voice. It is. Yeah, and you know it just it's a

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resonant there, and it's right there
in the middle of the orchestra array,

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the man life. So you play, and not only that, you're behind

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the desk, you're out there making
calls. You're talking to people and welcoming

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them in as far as being not
only patrons, but also you know,

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folks who might want to contribute a
little bit more to the symphony as well

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and keeping everything in order. How
many musicians do you have? We have

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around sixty musicians. So between you
and Maestro, you guys are kind of

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like hurting cats, aren't you.
Yes, well, I see, so

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maestro handles most of all the musical
aspects, most of the best aspects.

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Well, that's good. Split that
up, because you guys could drive each

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other crazy. Yeah. Otherwise,
So, John, you've been with us

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for a little while here not only
is the executive director but also as a

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performer. Yes, this is my
second season as the executive director. Yeah,

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and you come all the way up
from Tulsa to take care of business.

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And I like the fact that you're
not afraid to be mobile, and

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you're always out there and you're always
willing to talk to people about the orchestra.

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Absolutely, I'm thankful to do what
I get to do, and I

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love this community and I look connecting
with the people in the community. Oh,

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it's something else, it really is. We're very, very blessed.

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You know, a lot of communities
are size do not have one tenth of

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what Bartlesville has. You're right,
and you know you kind of hit it

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there earlier that this began as the
Phillips Orchestra, right, and our companies

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said that kind of got this down, up and going. Have always been

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great patrons of the art, Yes, and they wanted to make sure that

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their employees had the opportunity to get
the very best what the world had to

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offer right here in the safety and
convenience and relative piece and quiet of Bortlsville.

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Right. We started in nineteen fifty
seven by a group of scientists and

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engineers from Phillips who needed a musical
outlet. They had a musical ability and

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they would rehearse in the Adam's Auditorium
in the first concert took place in December

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nineteen fifty seven and an around nineteenth
seventy six or seventy seven we became the

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Barcelo Sympony Orchestra. So you know, you've got everything that London has as

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far as musical ability, you just
don't have, you know, the smell

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of London buses around here, you
know, yeah, exactly. It's got

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to be a treat to be a
part of something so wonderful here in our

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community, something that just adds so
much. And of course you know when

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the season gets up and going,
we always have Maestro in here and he's

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always I mean, he can't wait
to tell you what's going right. But

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each and every program, each and
every show is really not only fun,

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not only entertaining, but it's also
educational as all get absolutely, and he

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makes some really unique tie ins with
different things that you wouldn't think would go

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together, and it's like, I
see what you get in there. Very

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clever, yeah, very clever.
So once again, this is on the

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twenty eighth, the Gala celebration and
it's at the Community Center, one twenty

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five seat and if you want to
get a table it's a thousand, it's

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and it goes to a great cause. You're going to be fed very well

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from our friends and crossing second.
Yes. And on top of that day

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you're contributing to the betterment of our
community, if I might say. And

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our gala chairs are John and Andy
Saltzman of the Eatery. Oh really nice.

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So we're kind of spreading the love
all over the place, aren't we.

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Absolutely, man, I like how
you do. John, Thanks for

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being with us today. Thank you
Tom all right. John Jenkins with us

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here from the Bartlesville, SI