Tulsa, OK

A Prairie Home Companion

Show Times     Oct. 25 at 4:45 p.m.
Venue              Chapman Music Hall
Presenter         KWGS
Tickets            Available Online

“This is A Prairie Home Companion coming to you live from the Tulsa Performing Arts Center…”

Garrison Keillor’s winning combination of musical guests, skits, jokes and commercials from regular “sponsors” has won him millions of loyal listeners. His long-running variety show is broadcast live every Saturday night on nearly 600 public radio stations, the Armed Services Network, and XM and Sirius satellite networks.

One of the show’s best-known features is Keillor’s “News from Lake Wobegon,” a weekly report from his fictitious hometown “where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.”

Keillor always includes tidbits about the host city as part of his program. The audience is a key part of this live show, so if you’ve ever thought to yourself, “Those folks are having way too much fun,” here’s your chance to join them.

Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble

Show Times     Oct. 26 at 3 p.m.
Venue              John H. Williams Theatre
Presenter         Chamber Music Tulsa
Tickets            Available Online

The Academy of St Martin in the Fields was formed in 1958 as a small, conductorless chamber ensemble. Led by Neville Marriner and attracting some of the finest players in London, the orchestra at first concentrated on repertoire from the Baroque era, developing a style of performance that launched the 1960’s Baroque revival. The Academy was so named after the various concert-giving societies or ‘Academies’ that had flourished in 18th- century London and the famous church in which it gave its first concert on November 13, 1959.

Only two years later it had secured its first recording contract, with the independent L’Oiseau-Lyre label. This was to be the beginning of a record-breaking discography that now boasts well over 500 entries, making the Academy the most recorded chamber orchestra in the world. Thanks to a huge recorded catalogue and widespread radio coverage, the Academy’s name has become familiar to audiences across the globe.

Repertoire —
Brahms: Sextet in B-flat major, Op. 18
Shostakovich: Prelude and Scherzo for String Octet, Op. 11
Mendelssohn: Octet for Strings in E-flat major, Op. 20

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