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The Tulsa Symphony Concludes Its Current Season with "Musical Fireworks"

Aired on Friday, May 4th.
Aired on Friday, May 4th.

On this edition of ST, we welcome the widely accomplished freelance classical conductor Alastair Willis, who will be the Guest Conductor for the Tulsa Symphony when it performs "Musical Fireworks" --- the title for its final concert of the season --- tomorrow night (May 5th) at the Tulsa PAC. The performance begins at 7:30 pm; it will include works by Handel ("Music for the Royal Fireworks"), Haydn ("Concerto for Trumpet"), and Bartok ("Concerto for Orchestra"), with the Haydn selection featuring the symphony's Principal Trumpeter, Tim McFadden. Willis has actually appeared on our show previously --- that is, when he was guest-conducting the Tulsa Symphony in the past --- and on today's show he speaks of how the music on tomorrow night's program is all about excitement, drama, energy, wit, and spectacle. In other words, it's music pertaining to fireworks of both the visual and aural varieties. To learn more about this concert, including questions about ticket prices and availability --- or, for that matter, to learn more about the far-flung and critically acclaimed career of Alastair Willis --- please visit tulsasymphony.org.

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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