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Bob Gregory: A tribute from his son
After I posted my tribute in memory of Bob Gregory, I received an email from his son, Jason Pitcock, who included a copy of the eulogy he wrote for his dad and delivered at his service. What an amazing life he led! Like Bob Gregory's work, Jason's tribute to his...
Jerry Lewis and Oral Roberts
On the occasion of the death of Jerry Lewis, Harry Shearer has posted his contemporaneous feature story about the 1976 Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. That was the year that, during a live appearance by Frank Sinatra, Lewis was reunited with his old partner in...
David Rollo, RIP; memorial service Saturday, June 24, 2017
David Marshall Rollo, a leader in Tulsa choral music for over a half-century, a friend and mentor to many, passed away on April 25, 2017, at the age of 74, of complications from pneumonia. I was blessed to know David for 40 years as his student at Holland Hall, as...
Tulsa Boy Singers farewell concert Friday (05/26/2017)
This Friday, May 26, 2017, at 7:30 pm, the Tulsa Boy SIngers will perform their farewell concert at Trinity Episcopal Church, 5th & Cincinnati in downtown Tulsa. The program includes many classical and popular favorites from over the years: Haydn's Missa Brevis, "Skylark" by Johnny Mercer, Palestrina's Sicut cervus,...
Merle Haggard, RIP: His role in the western swing revival
Legendary country singer and songwriter Merle Haggard died Wednesday on his 79th birthday. It might be going too far to say he saved western swing from oblivion, but Merle Haggard's efforts to honor Bob Wills went a long way toward introducing a new generation to the sound. In 1946 or...
Tulsa Boy Singers Holiday Concert tonight (2015/12/17)
The Tulsa Boy Singers will perform their annual holiday concert tonight, Thursday, December 17, 2015, at 7:30 pm, at Trinity Episcopal Church, 5th & Cincinnati in downtown Tulsa. (Park and enter from the south side of the church.) Admission is $10 for adults; no charge for children. The boys...
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 Boy Singers in concert Friday, May 30, 2014
The Tulsa Boy Singers will present a spring concert of sacred and secular choral music at Trinity Episcopal Church, 500 S. Cincinnati Ave. in downtown Tulsa, this Friday, May 30, 2014, at 7:30 p.m. Repertoire from the concert includes: Sound of Music medley by Rogers and Hammerstein "O Lord, Increase...
Tulsa Boy Singers Christmas concert RESCHEDULED tonight (01/04/2014)
Tonight, January 4, 2014, the Tulsa Boy Singers will present their annual holiday concert, featuring music of the season both ancient and modern. The concert will begin at 7:30 pm, in the Gothic Revival splendor of Trinity Episcopal Church, 501 S. Cincinnati in downtown Tulsa. (Parking and main entrance off...
Tulsa Boy Singers 2013 spring concert Friday
On Friday, May 31, 2013, at 7:30 p.m., at Trinity Episcopal Church, 5th and Cincinnati in downtown Tulsa, the Tulsa Boy Singers will present a spring concert. Tickets are available at the door: $10 for adults; student admission is free. The program includes two pieces by Benjamin Britten ("Jubilate...
Christmas choristers, brass, and organ at Trinity Episcopal Church, Friday and Sunday
Trinity Episcopal Church, 5th and Cincinnati in downtown Tulsa, will host two concerts this weekend featuring beautiful Christmas music in its Gothic Revival sanctuary. On Friday night, December 21, 2012, at 7:30 pm, the Tulsa Boy Singers will perform a concert of Christmas and winter music Tickets are $10,...
Busy week in Tulsa: Music, politics, movies, and more
I'm really not trying to encroach on Tasha Does Tulsa's territory -- she has the definitive guide to Tulsa area pumpkin patches, by the way -- but there are so many interesting things to do in and around Tulsa this week that I decided to put a bunch of events...
Tulsa Boy Singers spring concert tonight
Who: Tulsa Boy Singers 2012 Spring Concert When: Tonight, 7:30 pm, Friday, June 1, 2012 How much: Adults $10, students free. Tickets available at the door What: Music by Gershwin, Mozart, Bach, Gardner, Durufle, Franck and others, followed by a reception Where: Trinity Episcopal Church, 5th and Cincinnati in...
Tulsa Boy Singers spring concert, this Friday night
This coming Friday night, June 3, 2011, at 7:30 pm, the Tulsa Boy Singers will perform their spring concert at Trinity Episcopal Church, 5th and Cincinnati in downtown Tulsa. Tickets are $10 for adults, no charge for students. The program includes both sacred and secular pieces. If you enjoyed the...
So much for cloud computing
Cloud services are convenient and powerful, but the mail, video, photos, audio, and documents we upload to them and the metadata we add to what we upload are hostage to the fortunes and whims of the provider companies. So here's another illustration of the risks of trusting your important data...
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...
Tulseys awards voting underway
The third annual Tulseys are coming up on November 18, and voting is underway. Anyone can vote. (I'm not sure when it ends.) Someone (I don't know who) nominated me this year for the interactive category. I'm surprised and honored to be named in such impressive company. The 2009 winner...
Review: Texas Playboys at Bob Wills Birthday
An orphaned draft, found and published April 12, 2024: I had apparently intended to write a review of the 2010 Bob Wills Birthday Bash at Cain's Ballroom, but got no further than to record that night's line-up and set list. Vocalists are shown in parentheses; songs without vocalists are instrumentals....
Oklahoma Swingin' Country, 1989
(Originally published 2010/02/26, bumped to the top for the benefit of my fellow guitar students.) In the fall of 1989, shortly after we were married, my wife, who had been playing violin since elementary school, decided she'd like to learn some fiddle techniques. She found a teacher in Inola named...
Seminar on visual processing problems tonight
If you have trouble reading, if letters seem to swim, if words dance on the page, if grids drive you goofy, if bright light gives you headaches, you may have a visual processing problem known as Irlen Syndrome, also known as scotopic sensitivity syndrome. There's an informational meeting tonight, Monday,...
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