Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
Speaker 1: It's time now for our community connection right here on
Speaker 1: K one, the one you trust. It is a beautiful day.
Speaker 1: I hope you set your clocks correctly, and I know
Speaker 1: there was a little trouble with some folks around here today,
Speaker 1: but hey, that's it. You know what it's time for.
Speaker 1: It's time now to talk with Fred Cook. He's with
Speaker 1: the Bartlesville Symphony. We've got a big tribun night coming up.
Speaker 1: No we sir, Yeah, we sure do.
Speaker 2: We're on March twenty second at six o'clock in the Center.
Speaker 2: We're gonna have a big trivia night. It's a big
Speaker 2: fundraiser for the Bartlesviell Symphony Orchestra.
Speaker 1: Well great, You know, this is a crown jewel in
Speaker 1: our community. Not every community that has roughly forty thousand
Speaker 1: people has a symphony. In fact, we might be one
Speaker 1: of about a million. We might be the only one
Speaker 1: with the city the size that has that. We're so
Speaker 1: lucky to have it, but we got to take care
Speaker 1: of it. And this is what this is all about,
Speaker 1: isn't it.
Speaker 2: Absolutely it's you know, when it comes to something like
Speaker 2: a symphony, the ticket sales only cover about a third
Speaker 2: of the cost of the production, so we really rely
Speaker 2: on donations and raising funds through through activities like this.
Speaker 2: So it's gonna be a really fun night and it's
Speaker 2: going to really help support the Bartlesgill Symphony.
Speaker 3: Now you must bring your brain.
Speaker 2: Well, baby, trivia is trivia, so sometimes luck plays in
Speaker 2: there too, so.
Speaker 1: More times than not. But it's gonna be a lot
Speaker 1: of fun. Now when we are who's our host.
Speaker 2: For trivia night, Well, it's a trivia boys, it's gonna
Speaker 2: it's gonna be Michael Duncan and Jackie Manning. Very look
Speaker 2: for guys to do a.
Speaker 3: Lot of trivia in town. So they do and they're fun.
Speaker 2: Now they are their characters.
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1: So you're going to be entertained as well as doing
Speaker 1: putting on the old thinking caps, so to speak. But
Speaker 1: the whole goal is is to raise money for the symphony.
Speaker 1: We've got so many great things going on here. Well
Speaker 1: I know that we've got the winner of the Young
Speaker 1: Artist competition coming.
Speaker 3: Up here a little bit late.
Speaker 2: Yeah, March twenty ninth.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's gonna be something else.
Speaker 2: That's gonna be great. Yeah, it's gonna be a great concert.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna miss it. I'm gonna be out of the country,
Speaker 2: but it's gonna be a great concert.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, i'll tell you all about it when you
Speaker 3: get back.
Speaker 1: A young fellow, mister van Noyd, who believe he's a
Speaker 1: clarinetis gonna be It's gonna be there. But you see,
Speaker 1: we wouldn't have this if we don't have the funds
Speaker 1: in order to keep the doors open and the musicians take.
Speaker 3: Care of the lights turned on. That's right, absolutely, And
Speaker 3: you know, we we have so many great.
Speaker 1: Artists that participate with the symphony, whether we're doing you know,
Speaker 1: kind of like a chamber series or the full orchestra.
Speaker 1: And you know, and Lauren Doo, we got to we've got.
Speaker 3: To keep him coming back.
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean just because he's been doing it for forty
Speaker 1: some years doesn't mean, you know, the next time might
Speaker 1: be a little low on gas.
Speaker 3: That's if I make it there.
Speaker 1: So we got to make sure we feel Laurence car
Speaker 1: or whatever it is he drives electricity or whatever, and
Speaker 1: get it over here so he can he can conduct.
Speaker 3: He gets he gets kick out of that. Yeah, he does. Yeah,
Speaker 3: baton thing he's.
Speaker 2: In his element when he's up directings.
Speaker 3: Oh boy is he. Sometimes he even joins the orchestra
Speaker 3: and plays a little bit. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know the Christmas concert was so fascinating when
Speaker 2: when he sang, actually sang in a quartette with at
Speaker 2: the Christmas concert was really funny, funny, fun evening.
Speaker 1: Well, you know he's a fun fella too. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: and actually the whole symphony is too. If you want
Speaker 1: to see one whale of a band, this is it.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: As far as the do we have to get tickets
Speaker 1: in advance or can we get them in advancer?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can buy tickets in advance. Just go to
Speaker 2: the Bartlegall Symphony Orchestra website and you can also order
Speaker 2: a table table bait is believe four hundred dollars or
Speaker 2: tickets are fifty five dollars apiece.
Speaker 3: All right now.
Speaker 2: There also be a taco bar, which is part of
Speaker 2: what you're getting in and that's Mexico. Dieho's going to
Speaker 2: cater the taco bar, so it's going to be great food.
Speaker 2: There'll be a cash bar there. We also have a
Speaker 2: sign of auction. There'll be some art items of baskets,
Speaker 2: you know, all lots of fun things. And it will
Speaker 2: also be the opportunity to buy.
Speaker 3: Dessert for your table. Oh my, I'll made dessert.
Speaker 2: So you can buy, so it'll be dessert for your table.
Speaker 1: Also, well, this is gonna be great. Slap on a
Speaker 1: bib and let's do some thinking. That's right, goodness six.
Speaker 1: It's good that you partnered up with CBE. They're great. Yeah, yeah, great,
Speaker 1: partners with us too, and boy that food taste awesome.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna get something for the tomtime. We're gonna
Speaker 1: get the little fun going here too. And then you
Speaker 1: guys really know how to put the fund in fundraising.
Speaker 3: We like to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we have to. We have to have a good time.
Speaker 2: You can't get people if you're not having a fun time.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, they always want to know what's going they're
Speaker 3: having fun. But is that all? We'll get a ticket,
Speaker 3: come on in. We'll let you what are the tickets
Speaker 3: going for?
Speaker 2: You know, I think it's fifty five dollars for a seat,
Speaker 2: but like I said, it's four hundred dollars for a
Speaker 2: table avair.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's good. That's good. You're got to come in.
Speaker 1: You know, we've got some competitors in this. I've noticed
Speaker 1: that they kind of followed mister Manning.
Speaker 3: And those guys around.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so, yeah, yeah, so yeah, you gotta
Speaker 1: watch it. You might might be in for some real
Speaker 1: sharpies there. But anyway, it's gonna be a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: Just bring the family and and if you got some
Speaker 1: folks at work that are pretty sharp too, even bring
Speaker 1: the one that's just funny.
Speaker 3: That's right, because he might know the darkness things.
Speaker 1: But boy, the Symphony has been in town for a
Speaker 1: long time and we need to keep it here for
Speaker 1: a long time.
Speaker 3: How long you've been on the board.
Speaker 2: Right, I've been on the board for about ten years, really, yeah,
Speaker 2: a long time.
Speaker 1: My goodness sakes. So you've seen a little some changes
Speaker 1: over the years, but one thing stays the same. We've
Speaker 1: got great shows.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, quality music always, always quality music.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And and Maestro Green, you know, he selects all the
Speaker 2: music and the programming is always just excellent. You just
Speaker 2: never know what it's going to come up with.
Speaker 1: He will come up with some of the darnedest things
Speaker 1: that he can combine and it still has that common threat.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it's like, man, that took a little work.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that wasn't something you did over coffee and the
Speaker 1: crossword puzzle.
Speaker 3: No, it's not.
Speaker 2: No, it's really interesting, you know, like we're probably he's
Speaker 2: busy planning twenty twenty six, twenty twenty seven. Now, you
Speaker 2: know you have to do this in advance, and then
Speaker 2: there's always a competing calendar, which makes it even more
Speaker 2: interesting because there is a lot goes on in Bartlesville.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Anybody who says there's nothing going on in this town,
Speaker 1: you haven't gotten out of your hole lately. Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: a ton. That's right, there's a ton. But it's always great.
Speaker 1: And you know what that the Center is the best
Speaker 1: place to hear music. I've been in a lot of
Speaker 1: different places. I played in a lot of different places
Speaker 1: as a musician myself, but my goodness, sakes the acoustics there.
Speaker 3: And then they just turned around and made him better
Speaker 3: a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2: There's no dead spot in there at all. And you know,
Speaker 2: you don't have to have the most expensive ticket and
Speaker 2: sit right up front. You can be in the very
Speaker 2: back row and it's just as beautiful and crisp as
Speaker 2: it is anywhere else. It's really an amazing facility. Another
Speaker 2: really fine aspect of Bartlesville that most cities in Side
Speaker 2: never see as the Center.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, that thing's beautiful. It is so
Speaker 1: well maintained. The folks there, they just take care of it.
Speaker 1: And then you made the seats you know a little
Speaker 1: bit bigger, so bad, like we can fit in, don't
Speaker 1: have the wedge, and they put a cup holder there
Speaker 1: so I can drink my water. That's really beneficial to
Speaker 1: my health. So you know, anyway, it's great. The Bartlesmill Symphony.
Speaker 1: It is something that we're going to be doing here
Speaker 1: on the twenty second Saturday, six pm at the Center.
Speaker 3: It's going to be in the community area community Holliday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's trivia night and it is a fundraiser
Speaker 1: and it's to keep the show going.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 1: Everybody seems to think that once you pay your ticket,
Speaker 1: that's it. We're gonna paint the barn and put on
Speaker 1: a show.
Speaker 3: But boy, it's a lot more than that, a lot
Speaker 3: more than that.
Speaker 1: You know, people don't realize this. You got to get
Speaker 1: the Sometimes you gotta pay for the music.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, oh sure, you always he's got to pay
Speaker 3: for the music.
Speaker 1: And i'd like to as a personal note, folks, please
Speaker 1: pay for your music when you start stealing it.
Speaker 3: It's not good, especially for the artists. We're broke.
Speaker 1: Spotify anyway, this is gonna be a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: And of course on the twenty ninth, you can go
Speaker 1: ahead and get your tickets ready for that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I said, that'll be the concert with the
Speaker 2: Young Artists winner clarinet. Is going to be a beautiful show.
Speaker 3: A wonderful show always is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, you know, and sometimes you know, a
Speaker 1: good chunk of the of the crowd that night's family.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, they get shirttail, relativisy and hey, big boys
Speaker 3: on the stage.
Speaker 2: You know, and it's it's it's it's wonderful. The collaboration
Speaker 2: in bartlesviow in the arts, particularly in the music area,
Speaker 2: because we have this young Artist competition every year and
Speaker 2: so uh and then we have scholarships that go out
Speaker 2: for the for the students and everything else. Not to mention,
Speaker 2: you know, just a week or so ago we had
Speaker 2: our fifth grade concert that's a collaboration with the Carnegie
Speaker 2: Carnegie Institute at Carnegie Hall out.
Speaker 3: Of New York City.
Speaker 2: So there's a lot that the Bartlesville Symphony does not
Speaker 2: just to provide music on four or five shows a year,
Speaker 2: but we also do a great deal to support the
Speaker 2: youth and bring music to young people and get them
Speaker 2: involved in the music scene in Bartlesville itself.
Speaker 3: You know that engagement is so important.
Speaker 1: No, I know, this little instrument, it's kind of like
Speaker 1: a recorder or a plant bone or whatever somebody would
Speaker 1: call it.
Speaker 3: And to some.
Speaker 1: Parents it's like huh. But when those kids get in
Speaker 1: there and they play with members of the symphony and
Speaker 1: they're playing together, right, that's a big deal to this
Speaker 1: That is a huge there's no goofing around.
Speaker 3: They're trying to be letter.
Speaker 2: Perfect, that's right. And you know that's something that it's
Speaker 2: not just Bartlesville. I mean we get the whole area.
Speaker 2: The whole area brings in fifth grade students for one
Speaker 2: concert a year, and you know, it's so important that
Speaker 2: they be exposed to music, particularly classical music. So it's
Speaker 2: really an important that's another important aspect of the symphony
Speaker 2: that we do every year for the community.
Speaker 1: So you know, some of these kids, and I'll tell
Speaker 1: you that my youngest when she was about nine, she says,
Speaker 1: why do we have to go to this symphony? I
Speaker 1: don't even know what it is. I said, well, you'll see.
Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden she saw all these
Speaker 1: people nicely dressed and she heard this music and she says, wow,
Speaker 1: all those different sounds make one big song. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: pretty cool. And now she's a big going off to
Speaker 1: college here to be doing the arts, good cool music, theater.
Speaker 3: The whole thing.
Speaker 1: And she and a lot of it had to do
Speaker 1: with seeing that great, big band with all those different components,
Speaker 1: and everybody's part was so important. She couldn't get over that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it really interested her. So it could happen to your child.
Speaker 2: Absolutely. All you need to do is expose them, give
Speaker 2: them a chance to see it.
Speaker 3: That's right. There you go.
Speaker 1: Hey, once again, we've got the website. That's where we
Speaker 1: can go to get our tickets. Also, you can get
Speaker 1: them at the Center box office. And they're fifty five
Speaker 1: of a person. What did you say they were for a table?
Speaker 1: Four hundred dollars for a table of eight. Okay, oh
Speaker 1: there you go. That's a good bargain. Yeah, so we'll
Speaker 1: see it trivia night.
Speaker 3: For the Bartles.
Speaker 2: We'll simpy arswer Fred, thank you, yeah, well, thank you,
Speaker 2: all right, thank you, talking with you, oh.
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