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The Tulsa Symphony Orchestra will open its 20th anniversary season with a concert featuring renowned pianist Emanuel Ax at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 4, at the Tulsa PAC, 101 E. Third St.
This will be the first time in more than 35 years that Ax has performed in Tulsa. He was a guest with the now-defunct Tulsa Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2000, he performed at the OK Mozart International Festival in Bartlesville as a last-minute substitute when a scheduled artist was forced to cancel his appearance.
Ax first came to international attention in 1974, when he took first place in the first-ever Artur Rubenstein International Piano Masters Competition. Since then, he has had a distinguished international career as a soloist and chamber musician, in particular with cellist Yo-Yo Ma. Five of the Grammy Awards Ax has won have been for chamber music recordings made with Ma and other artists; he has also won two Grammy Awards for his recordings of Haydn piano sonatas.
Ax will perform the Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37, by Beethoven. Guest conductor Lina González-Granados will lead the orchestra in the Festive Overture, Op. 96, by Shostakovich, and Antonin Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95, “From the New World.”
Tickets are $57.50-$104.25. To purchase: tulsasymphony.org.
‘Oklahoma Woman Quartet’
Tulsa musician and composer Anjelica Lindsey first debuted her piece for string quartet and voice, “Oklahoma Woman Quartet,” in March of this year. A second performance, featuring new orchestrations performed by the University of Tulsa’s Hurricane Quartet, will take place at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 1, at 101 Archer, 101 E. Archer St.
Lindsey, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, blends Cherokee identity, personal history and contemporary classical expression into this multi-faceted work.
“Oklahoma Woman Quartet is about how stories live in us,” Lindsey said. “As a Cherokee woman, I compose from that perspective, and with each performance, I break through the mythology of the Oklahoma experience.”
Admission to the concert is free, but as seating is limited, seats must be reserved. To reserve: eventbrite.com.
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‘Carousel’ on the Will Rogers Stage
Tickets are now on sale for Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “Carousel: A Concert,” to be presented at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 19, at the Will Rogers High School Auditorium, 3909 E. Fifth Place.
The event, produced by the Will Rogers Stage Foundation, will be presented in a concert format, inspired by the 2013 New York Philharmonic’s “in concert” production at Lincoln Center, which was later broadcast on the PBS series “Great Performances.”
“Carousel” is the story of the tragic romance between a carnival barker named Billy Bigelow and Julie Jordan, a young woman who works at the mill in the Maine town where the carnival has set up shop. When Julie becomes pregnant, Billy, who has lost his job with the carnival, becomes involved in a robbery in the hopes of providing for his unborn child. When the robbery goes tragically awry, Billy finds himself in limbo — until he is told of a way to make things right with his now-grown daughter and earn himself a place in heaven.
The musical features some of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s best-known songs, including “June is Bustin’ Out All Over,” “If I Loved You,” “Soliloquy” and “You’ll Never Walk Alone.”
Robert Mellon and Abigail Raiford, who appeared in Tulsa Opera’s 2022 production of Gioachino Rossini’s “L’Italiana de Algeri,” star as Billy Bigelow and Julie Jordan. The cast also includes Sam Briggs as Enoch Snow, Margaret Stall as Carrie Pipperidge, Christiaan Bester as Jigger Craigin and Maddie Breedlove as Nettie Fowler.
Six dancers from the Tulsa Ballet Center for Dance Education will perform a special ballet, choreographed by TBCDE director Lauren Richter. Cathy Venable is the show’s music director and will lead the 34-piece orchestra. Ben Robinson, the general director of the Anchorage Opera, is the show’s stage director.
Tickets are $32.48-$79.73. To purchase and for more information: willrogersstage.com
Utica Square’s ‘Art in the Square’
More than 100 local artists will line the sidewalks of Tulsa’s Utica Square for the 29th annual Art in the Square, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 4. Original work in media including watercolor, oil, stained glass, pottery, sculpture, woodturning and more will be on display and available for purchase.
Youngsters can enjoy the Kids Art Alley in the Garden, open 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., for kid-friendly activities such as face painting and balloon art.
For more information: uticasquare.com.
james.watts@tulsaworld.com
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