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The 2014 OK Mozart Festival on Performance Oklahoma

Continuing its mission to offer a high quality music and cultural Festival for Oklahoma audiences, OK Mozart celebrated its 30th anniversary season this past June.  Enjoy a promo for the series here!

Welcoming Artistic Director Constantine Kitsopoulos and Executive Director Randy Thompson in 2013, the 2014 Festival presented the Amici New York orchestra in a series of concerts which included a side-by-side performance with the newly formed OK Mozart All-State Youth orchestra, a semi-staged concert presentation of Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute"  featuring Oklahoma based soloists and the Bartlesville Choral Society who also joined the orchestra for the finale concert featuring Beethoven's 9th Symphony.  The Festival also offered a chamber music series featuring internationally acclaimed pianist Jon Kimura Parker, one of America's highest-profile ensembles, the dynamic Miró Quartet and woodwind players from the Amici New York orchestra; the collaborators returning this season having also appeared at the Festival in 2013. 

In addition to its orchestral and choral performances and the chamber music concert series, OK Mozart continues to present a variety of performing arts, as well as a full program of related cultural events throughout the Festival.  Recorded concerts are held at the Bartlesville Community Center and St. Luke's Episcopal Church.  Beginning in the final week of August, Performance Oklahoma presents concert performances from both Festivals in a multi-week broadcast series. 

In the first hour of the opening broadcast, the Miró Quartet and pianist Jon Kimura Parker offer the Quartettsatz of Franz Schubert, Three Romances for Violin and Piano by Clara Schumann and the Piano Quartet of Robert Schumann from a concert given on Monday, June 9th of 2014.  

To round out the second hour, we'll also hear Beethoven's Op 59, No. 1 Quartet, presented by the Miró Quartet on Monday, June 10th of 2013, both performances given at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Bartlesville.   Performance recordings were made by Tom Lazarus:  http://www.classicsound.com/

Tune in at 8 on Saturday evening, August 30th to Classical 88.7-1