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Tulsa Boy Singers, Barthelmes, Symphony Brass concerts this week
Christmas is approaching along with the end of the school semester, which means that groups of talented young (and not-so-young) Tulsa musicians are presenting concerts. Thursday, December 18, 2014, at 6 p.m., the Barthelmes Conservatory will hold its winter open concert at All Souls Unitarian Church, 30th Street & Peoria,...
Tulsa's BBCM Quartet performs Friday, July 18, 2014
The BBCM Quartet, an award-winning young string quartet from Tulsa, will perform as part of the Summerstage Festival tomorrow night, Friday, July 18, 2014, at 7:30 p.m. in the Charles Norman Theater of the Tulsa PAC. Tickets are $12 for adults, $10 for seniors and students, $8 for 12 and...
Tulsan wins Texas Cowboy Reunion fiddle contest
On July 6, 2013, Tulsa violinist Joseph Bates won first place in the youth division of the Texas Cowboy Reunion Old Time Fiddlers' Contest. This was Bates's third time to compete at the Stamford, Texas, contest, winning third place in 2007 and second place in 2008. Bill Burns, who later...
Crepes for a cause: Mod's Thursday evening sales to benefit The bART
Mod's Coffee and Crepes is donating 25% of its Thursday, July 11, 2013, sales from 4 pm to 10 pm to The bART Center for Music, formerly known as the Barthelmes Conservatory of Music. The bART Center includes a music school -- a seven-year program for students with the musical...
Barthelmes Conservatory concert tonight; Phoenix open for business
Tonight, December 14, 2012, at 6 p.m., the Barthelmes Conservatory will hold its semi-annual open concert at The Church at Midtown at 38th and Lewis. The conservatory's talented and hardworking students, mainly high school and middle school students, will perform short solo and ensemble pieces from the classical repertoire for...
Busy weekends: Mayfest, music, moms -- and an eclipse
It was a fun but busy weekend with no time for posting here. Friday night involved ferrying my oldest son from playing in Barthelmes Conservatory's spring open concert to singing with the Augustine Christian Academy show choir at the school's high school graduation. While he was busy with that, I...
Maurice Kanbar mystery; downtown Tulsa's private clubs; Pearl District progress
Jennie Lloyd makes her debut this week as the new city reporter for Urban Tulsa Weekly with two interesting stories about downtown Tulsa, past, present, and future. The first is about the mysterious goings-on involving the massive portfolio of downtown buildings owned by Maurice Kanbar, for example: In December 2010,...
Kanbar bailing out of Tulsa?
There are indications that downtown Tulsa's biggest property owner is looking to sell and get out, despite big plans announced last fall and very recent affirmations of his commitment to Tulsa. Last month's Tulsa People had a Q&A with Maurice Kanbar, the San Francisco inventor who owns over 2 million...
Young Tulsa musicians perform this Friday night
Mark your calendars! This coming Friday night, December 17, 2010, offers two opportunities to hear talented young musicians in downtown Tulsa: At 6 p.m., Barthelmes Conservatory will present their Winter Open Concert, a series of short pieces presented by the conservatory's students, in the Great Hall on the 4th floor...
Notebook: Final UTW Column
An edited version of this column was published in the May 28 - June 4, 2009, issue of Urban Tulsa Weekly. This was my final column for UTW, for reasons I explained in a blog entry at that time. The final paragraph was cut by the editor. The published version...
Barthelmes anniversary concert Tuesday
Barthelmes Conservatory will celebrate its fifth anniversary with a special concert this coming Tuesday night, May 19, 2009, at 6 p.m., in the Bernsen Center, 708 S. Boston in downtown Tulsa, in the Grand Hall on the 4th floor. Admission is free. About two dozen students will perform short...
Cypress String Quartet in Tulsa tonight
Chamber Music Tulsa and Barthelmes Conservatory are hosting a residency with the Cypress String Quartet. On Thursday, the quartet did workshops at Edison Preparatory School involving students from nine elementary and middle schools. On Friday, the quartet did a strings seminar with Barthelmes Conservatory student ensembles. My wife and son...
Worn out
I have several new entries in work, but I'm too beat to finish any of them. It was a fun weekend, but a long one. On Saturday morning, my oldest son was one of a number of Barthelmes Conservatory students to perform in a program for the OK Mozart festival...
Tulsa Boy Singers, Barthelmes performances coming soon
Mark your calendars. There are a couple of wonderful opportunities to hear beautiful music performed by some very talented young Tulsans. This coming Thursday, May 24, at 6 p.m., is the spring concert for the Barthelmes Conservatory Music School. Students are admitted to the music school based on musical aptitude,...
National Fiddler Hall of Fame launched
Last Friday night, I had the privilege of being at Cain's Ballroom for the inaugural gala of the National Fiddler Hall of Fame with my wife and son, both of whom play violin/fiddle. We got to meet Bob Wills's daughter Rosetta, who was there to accept the induction of her...
Show and <em>kvell</em>: Music scholarship
Last week we learned that our 10-year-old son has been awarded a scholarship for the Barthelmes Conservatory Music School. The school, based in 1st Presbyterian Church's Bernsen Center, takes students with an aptitude for music and provides them with lessons in music theory private instruction in an instrument, twice a...
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