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Murry Sidlin Conducts the TCC Signature Symphony in "The Defiant Requiem"

Aired on Friday, April 17th.

Our guest today on ST is Murry Sidlin, an American conductor who's a professor of conducting at Catholic University's Benjamin T. Rome School of Music; he's also worked with the Baltimore Symphony, the National Symphony Orchestra, the Oregon Symphony, the Tulsa Philharmonic, and the Connecticut Ballet, among many other notable musical organizations. In 2011, Sidlin was a guest conductor for the TCC Signature Symphony in a performance of "The Defiant Requiem," and he will reprise this majestic work, once again holding the baton, tomorrow night, Saturday the 18th, at 7:30pm at the Van Trease PACE at the TCC's Southeast Campus (at 10300 E. 81st Street). "The Defiant Requiem" is a concert/drama -- both conceptualized and created by Sidlin -- about the performance of the Verdi Requiem by prisoners of the Terezín Concentration Camp. At once puzzled and challenged by the question of why a group of Jewish prisoners would learn and sing the Verdi Requiem -- which is a Catholic Mass, after all -- Sidlin personally researched this story, and in doing so set out to locate any and all surviving members of the original chorus. His passion and commitment to honoring these survivors, and all victims of Terezín, is what led to the creation of "The Defiant Requiem." In this edition of our show, we listen back to a conversation with Sidlin from 2011, when we was last in town to perform this work.

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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