Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
Speaker 1: It is time now for our community connection right here
Speaker 1: on K one, the one you trust from. Kathy Stewart's
Speaker 1: here with us today and you know, I know we're
Speaker 1: going to have fun because we're going to talk music today.
Speaker 1: We're going to talk beautiful music. Now, what do you
Speaker 1: got for us?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 3: Tom, First of all, I want to thank you for
Speaker 3: all that you do to keep us up to date
Speaker 3: on what's going on in Bartlesville, especially during the month
Speaker 3: of December. Now, what I'm bringing to the table this
Speaker 3: month is the Advent Concert Series, which is held at
Speaker 3: First Presbyterian Church, Fifth and Dewey every Wednesday in December
Speaker 3: at twelve fifteen is when the music starts.
Speaker 2: Now you can come early, like around noon.
Speaker 3: Presbyterian women have made sack lunches again and the price
Speaker 3: is holding ferment only five dollars per or sack lunch.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you get a sandwich, some chips, some homemade cookies,
Speaker 3: and I think there's water something to go with that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So yeah, it's a deal.
Speaker 1: Indeed, for only five dollars. Can we do this Wednesday
Speaker 1: during the lunch? Are you can just where we are
Speaker 1: downtown work and you can just walk.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you just walk down there and it's in this sanctuary.
Speaker 3: We have musicians from all over the area basically will
Speaker 3: come in and they do this out of the kindness
Speaker 3: of their hearts as a way to bring joy and
Speaker 3: or peace to people during this very busy season. First
Speaker 3: up on December twelfth. This is gonna December four fourth,
Speaker 3: yea thank you December fourth next week, a week.
Speaker 2: From tomorrow when we kick it off.
Speaker 3: When we kick it off, it's going to be the
Speaker 3: Joyful Strings Harp Ensemble.
Speaker 1: Nice. This is going to sound angelic, folks, Well, we hope.
Speaker 2: So, yeah, that's the plan.
Speaker 3: This is a group of ladies from around the area
Speaker 3: and you'll see harps of all sizes, shapes and sizes.
Speaker 3: There's some of the great big ones that you see
Speaker 3: like at a symphony orchestra, down to the smaller ones that.
Speaker 2: Really almost fit in your lap.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: And they've joined together and we're going to play some
Speaker 3: Christmas music on that And I'm a part of that one.
Speaker 2: So I'm kind of excited.
Speaker 1: I didn't know you were a harpist.
Speaker 3: Well, I play at it.
Speaker 1: Very well understood. I've got a few instruments. I do
Speaker 1: that too, Yes, I play at it.
Speaker 2: I play at it and I have a good time
Speaker 2: doing it.
Speaker 1: That's important.
Speaker 3: That's really what we all are doing. And it's just
Speaker 3: I think, promises to be very lovely. The following week,
Speaker 3: on the eleventh, we have the Green Country Chimers.
Speaker 2: Are coming back.
Speaker 3: And I want you to know the woman and the
Speaker 3: brains behind this. She is in her nineties. You are
Speaker 3: never ever too old to start doing something musically, and.
Speaker 1: I understand you have to do a lot to keep
Speaker 1: up with her.
Speaker 2: Oh you do.
Speaker 3: This woman is a qualifier, let me tell you what.
Speaker 3: And so they're going to come out with their chimes
Speaker 3: and do some Christmas music and it's going to be
Speaker 3: a lot of fun. It's it's just going to be
Speaker 3: they They just make my heart happy, this group does.
Speaker 3: Then on the eighteenth, we've got something kind of unique.
Speaker 3: This used to be a long time ago. This was
Speaker 3: the thing a long time ago, like five hundred years ago.
Speaker 3: This is a recorder consort, the Trinity recorder Consort. And
Speaker 3: again I'm not talking about the little recorders that the
Speaker 3: fourth graders play. It's good, yeah, no relief, actually yes,
Speaker 3: a little bit.
Speaker 2: Of a relief.
Speaker 3: No, this is these are actually people who know what
Speaker 3: they're doing.
Speaker 2: They have the small recorders, yes, but up to very
Speaker 2: large ones.
Speaker 1: There's these are actual woodwind instruments.
Speaker 2: Yes, these are woodwind instruments.
Speaker 3: They've got I think soprano, alto, ten or bass recorders.
Speaker 3: So it'll be kind of interesting and I'm sure they'll
Speaker 3: will be doing a lot of some of the standard
Speaker 3: Renaissance type music.
Speaker 1: Now I can just hear that echoing in the sanctuary.
Speaker 1: I mean, your mind just takes you there. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: gonna you gotta gotta sell big tickets for the Oh well.
Speaker 2: That would be nice, but these concerts are in fact free.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, but the back line and all we
Speaker 3: need is a boars head you know, you know, we
Speaker 3: need a madrigal for this the recorders.
Speaker 2: I think that would be a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: But anyway, now, since there are only three Wednesdays in
Speaker 3: December that we're offering these concerts, because of course, the
Speaker 3: fourth Sunday is Christmas Day, and I think most people
Speaker 3: would be with their families, so we're not going to
Speaker 3: have a concert that day. But what we are going
Speaker 3: to do is on Friday, October thirteenth, with the support
Speaker 3: of OKM, we're going to have the Bartzil Keyboard Orchestra concert.
Speaker 2: They're going to come over and play.
Speaker 3: These are I think we've got thirteen digital keyboards. These
Speaker 3: are children primarily youth and children starting from age I
Speaker 3: think the youngest one might be six, six or seven
Speaker 3: up to high school students and they will be offering
Speaker 3: up kind of orchestral music, but they're played with the keyboards.
Speaker 3: And so the cool thing about the keyboards is the
Speaker 3: keyboard orchestra is that it gives children from a very
Speaker 3: young age the opportunity to play in an orchestral ensemble.
Speaker 2: And these kids just love it. They're having more fun.
Speaker 1: They play off each other, yeah.
Speaker 2: And they start listening to each other.
Speaker 3: And I really like it when at the end of
Speaker 3: the piece and we say, you know, you have to watch,
Speaker 3: you have to watch, and they watch and they watch
Speaker 3: for the cutoff and then they all play the chord
Speaker 3: to the final chord together and it's just wonderful to
Speaker 3: listen to these kids listening to the other parts and
Speaker 3: understanding how their part works in and they're.
Speaker 2: Not always the star.
Speaker 3: So these are primarily young piano students, but they're learning
Speaker 3: what it is like to play in an orchestra.
Speaker 1: That is awesome. It's December.
Speaker 3: What that is decemb Friday, December thirteenth, and so it's
Speaker 3: I think it's a Oh boy, caught me here.
Speaker 2: I want to say it's seven seven I think, So
Speaker 2: I could be wrong. It might get six. We will
Speaker 2: double check on that.
Speaker 3: I've got the posters somewhere, and of course I did
Speaker 3: not bring one with me.
Speaker 1: That's fine. Yeah, we know where to find you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's going to be a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: First, Presbyterian Church is really the place you want to
Speaker 1: put this down on your to go and your to
Speaker 1: do list, because you're going to want to go and
Speaker 1: listen to these fine musicians for the concerts.
Speaker 3: And it's I mean, you can't get a better deal.
Speaker 3: You certainly don't have to buy a lunch. You can
Speaker 3: just come in and listen to the music. It won't
Speaker 3: cost you anything but a little bit of your time,
Speaker 3: and it is time well spend.
Speaker 1: But Kathy, those cookies are calling.
Speaker 2: Those cookies are awesome.
Speaker 3: I have to tell you, it's and it's it's torture
Speaker 3: being upstairs and smelling them baking.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what's your favorite cookie tom.
Speaker 1: Any and all. Oh okay, I'm one of those boy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he gets out of the oven smelling good. It's gone.
Speaker 2: Well, they've got them all, you know.
Speaker 1: I'll restrain myself.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know myself to one bag. Yeah, okay, one sleeve.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know me too, well, Kathy, but this is
Speaker 1: going to be outstanding. And it seems like every every
Speaker 1: year we do something a little different. I will never
Speaker 1: say that we do it better, because there's there's no better.
Speaker 1: These are all great accomplished musicians who bring something different
Speaker 1: to the to the stage each and every time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's so unique and unduplicatable, folks, this is what it's
Speaker 1: all about.
Speaker 3: Well, and it's to me, it's the great variety of
Speaker 3: music and musicians that are out there and here in town.
Speaker 2: You know, it's incredible to me. I had no idea
Speaker 2: we had that many harpists in town, nor did I. Yeah, so,
Speaker 2: but enough to put together an ensemble.
Speaker 1: There you go. And I didn't know until ten minutes
Speaker 1: ago that you played. I knew you did keyboard, yeah,
Speaker 1: seen and heard you play before. Yeah, but this is
Speaker 1: really awesome. So once again, what time do the folks
Speaker 1: need to be down there? At noon.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, if you want to come early and grab
Speaker 2: a lunch.
Speaker 3: The music starts at about twelve fifteen, goes for I
Speaker 3: don't know, twenty minutes or so, maybe a little longer
Speaker 3: depending on the program.
Speaker 2: And then or you can grab a sack lunch after.
Speaker 1: Well, there you go and just enjoy, enjoy and joy,
Speaker 1: find some piece, find some beauty in this world. It's
Speaker 1: such a hectic time between Christmas and Thanksgiving, these advent
Speaker 1: when days are going to be just such a well
Speaker 1: it'll recharge you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, mom, for your soul.
Speaker 1: Oh well, yeah, that's good. They really are really good.
Speaker 1: Now do you have a Facebook page or a website?
Speaker 3: We can go to First Presbyterian. I think it's fpc
Speaker 3: bok dot org. We do have Facebook page, so you
Speaker 3: can go there and check on that as well.
Speaker 2: And so and I think it's current. I think I'll
Speaker 2: have to check.
Speaker 1: Well, we'll get it there.
Speaker 2: We'll make sure that it's up there.
Speaker 1: All right. I want to thank you for coming in
Speaker 1: on such a chili chili day.
Speaker 2: Oh it's my pleasure.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, you gave us something warm to look
Speaker 1: forward to on our Wednesdays. I want to thank you
Speaker 1: for being here.
Speaker 2: Absolutely and thank you Tom.
Speaker 1: Alrighty folks, you've been watching and listening to our community
Speaker 1: connection