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David Spear & Joseph Julian Gonzalez, Two Composers from Los Angeles, Visit TU & the Circle Cinema

Aired on Thursday, October 6th.

On this edition of StudioTulsa, we speak with David Spear and Joseph Julian Gonzalez, two film/concert composers from Los Angeles who are both lecturing and teaching here at TU as J. Donald Feagin Visiting Artists. About a year ago, Spear and Gonzalez composed a new score of original themes for the 1928 silent film "Ramona" -- and in doing so, they also re-arranged the title song and adapted sacred and Spanish classical music for their newly created score. They tell us about this film -- which was lost for nearly eighty years -- on today's show; they also talk about how they composed new music for it. On this coming Saturday, the 8th, Spear and Gonzalez will perform their score for "Ramona" -- along with several students from the TU School of Music -- at the Circle Cinema. Two different screenings, each with live musical accompaniment, will be presented, at 10am and noon, and you can access more information at this link.

Rich Fisher passed through KWGS about thirty years ago, and just never left. Today, he is the general manager of Public Radio Tulsa, and the host of KWGS’s public affairs program, StudioTulsa, which celebrated its twentieth anniversary in August 2012 . As host of StudioTulsa, Rich has conducted roughly four thousand long-form interviews with local, national, and international figures in the arts, humanities, sciences, and government. Very few interviews have gone smoothly. Despite this, he has been honored for his work by several organizations including the Governor's Arts Award for Media by the State Arts Council, a Harwelden Award from the Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa, and was named one of the “99 Great Things About Oklahoma” in 2000 by Oklahoma Today magazine.
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