Legends and Swans

N EW BEG INN IN GS 2022–2023 SEASON Corporate Season Sponsor:

G R EE TIN GS FRO M TH E P O DI U M This season we embark on many New Beginnings as we not only have a new artistic director and are coming back from a global pandemic, but we are also working to redefine what it means to be an orchestra of the 21st century.

I am ecstatic to be here in Tulsa sharing the wondrous world of live music and helping to shape the musical and cultural landscape with the incredible Signature Symphony!

Not only should the Signature Symphony be a musical conduit for the community we live in, but reflect the changing world around us, including helping shape the future of live orchestral music.

We are proud to bring you fun and impactful musical experiences this season, from Christmas in Tulsa to our annual Tulsa Sings! Competition with Broadway star, Scott Coulter. I also want to help draw even deeper connections to the vast symphonic world by bringing you programs like Rachmaninoff and the Dance Floor or our Legends and Swans concert to show the incredible interconnectivity of it all. We will feature world-class guest artists this season, including pianist Charlie Albright and violinist Andrew Sords, as well as local collaborations within Tulsa.

I cannot wait to meet you all and talk about what you would like to see and hear at the Signature Symphony in future seasons. In a time where everyone has been through so much, we rely on music and the power of human connection more than ever as we heal, inspire, and continue to build our community.

We will see you at the symphony!

Scott Seaton, Artistic Director

MISSION Create meaningful shared experiences between professional musicians and our community.

SCOTT SEATON American conductor Scott Seaton has been praised for possessing “finesse, clarity, and precision” by the Luxembourg Times and has left audiences “breathless” according to Entertainment News Northwest. He was a finalist in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Solti Competition as well as the 2012 Sir Georg Solti International Conducting Competition, placing in the top ten conductors from a pool of over 400 conductors from 73 countries that were initially considered. He is in his eighth season as Music Director of the North State Symphony in Northern California where he has garnered acclaim for his dynamic performances, innovative programming, and community and youth outreach. He was also recently named the Artistic Director of the Signature Symphony in Tulsa and will lead them beginning in the 2022– 2023 season.

Since his international debut in 2007 with the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, Seaton has conducted orchestras spanning North America, South America, and Europe. Originally from Nashville, Tennessee, Seaton has earned degrees from the Université de Montréal, the New England Conservatory, and Vanderbilt University.

He has also studied at Tanglewood and the National Conducting Institute sponsored by the National Symphony Orchestra.

An avid cyclist and runner, Seaton recently did a solo coast-to-coast cycling expedition from Oregon to Massachusetts. As a marathoner, he has run races across the USA and Canada, and qualified for and ran in the 2018 Boston Marathon.

He and his wife Julia enjoy feeding neighborhood cats and traveling the world in search of the perfect cappuccino.

VALUE STATEMENTS Inspire a passion for music.

Enrich lives through education.

Create a sense of belonging.

Nurture creativity.

Empower innovation.

VISION Make professional orchestral music accessible to all.

Pursue continued excellence.

Demonstrate responsible stewardship and accountability.

Promote a fun environment.

Legends and Swans Saturday, February 25, 2023

Andrew Sords, violin Swan Lake: Suite, Op. 20a

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)

No. 1, Scène No. 2, Valse No. 3, Dances des cygnes No. 5, Danse hongroise; Czardas No. 7, Danse napolitaine No. 29, Scène Finale

Légende, Op. 17

Henryk Wieniawski (1835-1880)

Zigeunerweisen, Op. 20

Pablo de Saraste (1844-1908)

INTERMISSION Symphony No. 5 in E-flat Major, Op. 82 I. II. III.

Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)

Tempo molto moderato Andante mosso, quasi allegretto Allegro molto

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Scott Seaton, Artistic DirectorDd VIOLIN 1 Maureen O’Boyle,

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Josiah Baker Alicia Ranne Rachel Hay Esther Fellows Val Hinkle James Ruggles Sarah Bryant Kiersten Moser Brian Dunagan

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CELLO Erica Parker1,2,3 Gordon Robson Ashley Allison Gulya Hollopeter Ji Anderson Amelia Ivory BASS Robin Smith1 Greg Spears Colin Healey Jeff Erb FLUTE Cherie Thomas1 Knowlan Randza Valerie Goforth OBOE Lisa Wagner1 Sarah Evans CLARINET Christy Foster1 Anne Watson BASSOON Andrew Davis1 Dayna Smith

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Deadline to apply is March 5. For details and to apply go to:

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SIGNATURE SYMPHONY STAFF Orchestra Manager Joseph Falvey Event Coordinator Susan Martin Librarian Ed Morse Personnel Ashley Allison

VANTREASE PACE STAFF Dean of Visual & Performing Arts Kelly Clark Administrative Assistant Michelle Dixon Sound Designer Jon Kreilaus Lighting Designer Stephanie Stone Operations Manager Jess Gray Assistant House Manager Marie Smith House Assistants Ivanna Charpentier Zander Majors Chase Posey Hallie Willard

Join Signature Symphony April 2–3, 2023 for our first-ever Conducting Seminar led by internationally renowned conductor Alexander Mickelthwate, Music Director of the Oklahoma City Philharmonic, and the Bear Valley Music Festival in California, and Scott Seaton, Artistic Director of Andrew Sords, guest artist Signature Symphony and Music Director of the North State Symphony in California.

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Andrew Sords, guest artist American violinist ANDREW SORDS has a celebrated career as a soloist, recitalist, and in performances with his trio. Having appeared with nearly 300 orchestras on 4 continents, Sords has been cited for combining visceral virtuosity with a ravishing tone, while international critics endorse Sords as “a fully formed artist” (Kalisz-Poland News), “utterly radiant” (Canada’s Arts Forum), and “exceptionally heartfelt and soulful” (St. Maarten’s Daily Herald). Closer to home, ClevelandClassical.com gushed: “the stunner of the afternoon was a breathless but magnificently controlled performance of Beethoven’s “Kreutzer” sonata, which Sords charged through with giddy aplomb. Sords impressed with his total command of technique, consummate musicianship, and bravura as he tossed off scads of notes and sang out like a diva - he and Eriko Izumida kept the audience in the palm of their hands all afternoon.” A 2022 début for Palms Springs Concerts elicited the Desert Sun to enthuse: “[The Sords-Walz-Durkovic Trio’s] playing was not just technically superb; it was melodious, resonant, expressive, and passionate. The audience could not stop applauding.”

Throughout the 2022/23 concert season, Andrew Sords is highlighting the Beethoven sonata cycle, the Bologne Sinfonia Concertantes, and concerti by Mendelssohn, Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy, and Beethoven in varied locales. Uniting with his LA-based trio (John Walz, cello and Timothy Durkovic, piano), the ensemble returns to Pasadena’s Boston Court Series, the St. Cross Music Guild, and presents the Brahms & Mendelssohn trios in Beverly Hills, CA. Sords appears for the Traverse Symphony’s Maestro Series, trots out works by Sarasate and Wieniawski with the Signature Symphony, performs with both Symphony Irvine & the Charleston Chamber Orchestra with Mendelssohn’s evergreen concerto, and will headline an evening at Toronto’s Glenn Gould Theatre (Bruch’s “Scottish Fantasy”). Sords has numerous recital appearances: Augusta, GA’s “Tuesday’s Live”, Harrisburg, PA’s “Arts on the Square”, Trinity Cathedral’s (OH) Bach and Franck cycle, the Chamber Music Society of Mississauga, and Québec’s Hudson Série de Musique Chambre and La Société de Musique du Lakeshore. A passionate chamber musician, Sords curates several eclectic combinations of instruments featuring colleagues Mari Sato (violin), Eric Schultz (clarinet), and John Walz (cello) in works by Dvorâk, Khachaturian, Shostakovich, and Schumann.

In recent seasons, Sords opened the Symphony of Southeast Texas’s concert season with Bruch’s “Scottish Fantasy”, returned to the Malone University Concert Series, and had a far-reaching range of recital appearances. Appearing on 3 continents during the 2019/20 season, Andrew Sords toured extensively with works by Beethoven: the sonata and piano trio cycles, the Triple Concerto, and the Violin Concerto in celebration of the composer’s 250th anniversary. In 2017, Sords made his UK debut with concerts in Edinburgh and Scotland (Tchaikovsky concerto) with the Glasgow Philharmonia, and his Guatemala City debut (Bruch concerto).

A man of diverse interests, Sords has competed in the charity fundraiser “Pittsburgh’s Dancing with The Stars” as the first classical artist to do so. Passionate about social causes, Sords has performed numerous times for LGBT outreach, including Bruch’s “Scottish Fantasy”, Tchaikovsky, and Beethoven in collaborations with the Minnesota Philharmonic, the Bay Area Rainbow Symphony, and the Atlanta Philharmonic.

Sords is a popular guest for various media platforms: featured four times on Sirius XM’s Derek and Romaine Show; profiled by “OUT Magazine”, NPR’S Morning Edition, Australia’s ABC Music Now, Cleveland’s WCLV, and Colorado Public Radio; Sords also performed the National Anthem for ESPN2’s WNBA Pride Game (2014) and a sold-out Cleveland Indians game at Progressive Field. Sords’ recent collaboration with Sean Christopher on the New-Age album “Transcendence” has been a commercial and critical success, with reviews stating: “much of this is owed to the gorgeous and precise playing by Andrew Sords, whose violin adds a thrumming undercurrent of pure life throughout the album’s stainless steel structure.” This album is available on iTunes, Amazon.com, and CDBaby.

Born in Newark, Delaware, Sords was raised in Shaker Heights, Ohio, and asked for piano lessons at age five. Shortly thereafter, Sords commenced violin lessons, and his studies led him to the ENCORE School for Strings, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and Southern Methodist University. As a teenager, Sords garnered prizes from concerto competitions (including the NFMC National Competition and the Pittsburgh Society Career Grant), signed with management, and cultivated a media and audience following from innumerable interviews, profiles, and appearances. Following Sords’ debut in Australia, the Melbourne Age declared, “Sords made a voluble soloist in Mozart's Turkish concerto, forging his statements with an admirably firm clarity and bringing out the work's virtuosity as often as possible.

His bowing arm showed an attractive suppleness and an attention to variety of phrasing that made even the episodic finale a pleasure.”

Sords makes his home in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, and his website yields up-to-date news and touring activities. http://www.andrewsords.com

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Program Notes Program notes are copyright Susan Halpern, 2022

Swan Lake Suite, Op. 20 Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Born May 7, 1840, in Votkinsk; died November 6, 1893, in St. Petersburg) One of the most popular ballets of all time, Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, composed for the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, premiered on March 4, 1877.

The original choreography and its production were inept, so the ballet initially failed. Tchaikovsky mistakenly thought that the fault lay in his music and decided to rewrite it, but died before he could do so.

In the story line of Swan Lake, the young Prince Siegfried accompanies his companions to hunt swans. In a mysterious, romantic lake, swans float gracefully, becoming lovely young ladies as they touch shore, but the evil magician, Rotbart, only allows them to remain human between midnight and dawn. Siegfried falls in love with Odette, the Queen of the Swans, and invites her to a ball so he can propose to her. She cannot attend the ball unless Rotbart no longer weaves his spell.

At the ball, many seek the Prince’s hand, each performing a national dance from her country. The Prince dances with them all, but he awaits Odette.

Two new guests arrive: Rotbart, dressed as the Knight of the Black Swan, and Rotbart’s daughter Odile, transformed into Odette’s twin. Siegfried, initially deceived, declares he will marry Odile, while Odette, still a swan, beats against the window in vain to warn Siegfried. Rotbart, delighted that he has forced the prince to break his vow, disappears with Odile. Siegfried realizes the truth and rushes out to find Odette. Rotbart creates a storm in hopes that Odette will drown in the lake, but Siegfried risks his life to save her, proclaiming his willingness to die with her. His heroism breaks the magician’s spell. The floodwaters recede, and the girls regain their human form, freed forever.

In 1880, Tchaikovsky’s benefactress, Nadezhda von Meck, wrote that she had commissioned a young Frenchman to make piano arrangements of three dances from the ball scene; it became Debussy’s first published work. In 1882, Tchaikovsky decided to create a suite from the ballet, but unfortunately, he never did. Swan Lake Suite was selected by others and varies greatly in movements from performance to performance.

Legende, Op. 17 Henryk Wieniawski (Born July 10, 1835, in Lublin, Poland; died April 12,1880, in Moscow) The great Polish violinist, Henryk Wieniawski, displayed his rare musical gifts at an early age. Wieniawski’s father was Jewish, but decided to convert to Catholicism, probably to assimilate. As the family came from the Lublin neighborhood of Wieniawa, the father adopted the name Wieniawski.

When young Wieniawski chose the violin as his instrument at age five, he had lessons with Jan Hornziel, a pupil of Louis Spohr; later, he studied with Stanislaw Serwaczynski, who had taught the great violinist-composer Joseph Joachim. Wieniawski made his public début at seven, and at eight, was admitted to the Paris Conservatoire with a special exemption; the minimum age for admission was twelve. When he graduated from the Conservatoire at eleven, Wieniawski received the top prize over all his older classmates.

He immediately began the life of a traveling virtuoso but returned to Paris for further study; at the age of fifteen, he won the first prize in composition. He then became solo violinist to the Czar of Russia, before beginning a teaching post at the St. Petersburg Conservatory.

Wieniawski’s pianist friend Anton Rubinstein introduced the composer to the Hampton family and their daughter Isabella, with whom Wieniawski fell in love. The composer soon wrote to a friend in Brussels of his intention to “marry a young English woman whom I Love more deeply than the finest Stradivarius or Guarneri.” Isabella’s father did not want to accept the violinist/composer, hoping his daughter instead would marry a man with “a more solid financial background.”

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The story goes that in 1860, when Wieniawski composed Légende, a concert piece showcasing violin, which he dedicated to his beloved, he invited Isabella’s parents to a private concert, at which he performed the violin solo. The parents were overwhelmed with the work and its expression of emotion, as well as the passion and sincerity of Wieniawski’s playing, and were convinced by it to allow their daughter to marry him.

In 1872, Wieniawski began a joint tour of the United States with Rubinstein as pianist, and then continued on his own, making solo appearances as far west as California. In 1874, Wieniawski succeeded the composer Vieuxtemps as professor of violin at the Brussels Conservatory. He resigned three years later for health reasons, but, nevertheless, continued to give concerts throughout Europe, which, it has been speculated, hastened his early death. Even as a concert violinist, he found time to compose large quantities of music.

In 1879, Wieniawski began a tour of Russia, but couldn’t complete it. He found himself in a Moscow paupers’ hospital, without the money his tour organizers had promised him, and with no means to survive. Musician friends and well-wishers, notably Nadezhda von Meck, who was the patroness of Tchaikovsky, rallied and organized charity concerts to help Wieniawski and his family. His wife travelled from Brussels to be at his bedside. He died shortly after, only months before his forty-fifth birthday.

As a composer, Wieniawski had a unique style, an amalgam of Paganini’s technical advancements that he combined with Romantic themes and a spirit of Polish nationalism. His most well-known works include his mazurkas, polonaises, and two concertos. The two concertos are very popular staples of violin repertoire, the first virtuosic and the second an expression of sweeping Romanticism, which he dedicated to the violinist Sarasate.

Wieniawski’s etudes are considered among the most musical and technically demanding studies for the violin. The brief Légende Op. 17 has remained a famous showpiece in which Wieniawski emphasizes the Romantic theme of love. The music displays an exemplary combination of technical virtuosity with emotional and lyrical Romantic themes.

In the beginning of the piece, the minor tonality highlights the longing encapsulated in the phrasing; an emotional intensity is created by the use of extreme dynamics, slides, and octaves. In the second section, in a major key, a sequence of double stops climaxes with open string chords, and then ultimately progresses to tonic octaves. A quickly descending chromatic scale resolves in the initial key as the first section returns, now muted and with different coloration.

Zigeunerweisen (Gypsy Airs) Op. 20 Pablo de Sarasate (Born March 10, 1844, in Pamplona, Spain; died September 20, 1908, in Biarritz, France) Pablo Martín Melitón Sarasate y Navascuez is the full name of the Spanish violinist who was one of the great virtuoso-composers of his time. The Queen of Spain first heard him play when he was only a ten-year-old boy and generously presented him with a Stradivarius violin and subsidized his studies at the Paris Conservatory. He made his home in France for most of the rest of his life, but he always made an annual visit to Spain part of his touring itinerary.

George Bernard Shaw, who was a music critic in London in the 1890’s, said that Sarasate played with “a quiet and certain mastery” and with “exclusive attention to the absolutely musical side of his classical repertory.” This comment is testimony enough to the serious, artistic aspect of Sarasate’s performing career. Saint-Saëns, Bruch, and Lalo were among the composers who wrote concertos for him. Sarasate was a brilliant virtuoso with a repertoire of dazzling showpieces among which were many of his own original compositions flavored with recollections of the folk songs and dances of Spain.

Zigeunerweisen is a dazzling virtuosic one-movement medley of Gypsy (Romany) songs, in contrasting fast and slow tempos. They are similar in kind to the Hungarian Rhapsodies that Franz Liszt based on the songs of the Gypsies of his country. In a minor tonality throughout, the work begins Moderato, with a virtuosic introduction, before it transitions to a slow section, Lento, in which the violin plays in melancholy fashion. The violin’s lines are embellished with virtuosic figures including difficult spiccato and ricochet bowings. When the tempo increases to a speedy Allegro molto vivace, the violin soloist is called on to play more lengthy runs with difficult double stops and even left-hand pizzicato. In the final part, the Hungarian csárdás (a Hungarian dance form of alternating slow and fast sections) uses a theme Liszt had used before Sarasate employed it. The orchestral accompaniment is almost completely a support for the soloist who is challenged to create an extravagant technical display.

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Symphony No. 5, in E-Flat, Op. 82 Jean Sibelius (Born December 8, 1865 in Tavastehus, Finland; died September 20, 1957, in Järvenpää, Finland) Jean Sibelius is one of very few composers from the Scandinavian north to become a musical figure of worldwide importance. There was a time when serious critics, especially in England and the United States, even described his seven symphonies in terms usually reserved for Beethoven and Brahms, but a later generation assigned him a place with the finest national composers of Europe: Tchaikovsky, Dvorák and Grieg, for example.

The old idea of Sibelius as a solitary figure, alone and separate from Europe on the distant Karelian peninsula, was never correct. He studied in Berlin and Vienna, and he was published in Leipzig. He made concert tours to the principal cities of Europe, and quite often he went to England, where his works were very popular. He taught for a while at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston and was awarded an honorary degree by Yale. He was a cosmopolitan musician and an international figure. When Sibelius wrote his Symphony No. 1 in 1899, he was experimenting with a form that was a new means of musical expression for him. It is clear that he looked backward for models and found them in the symphonies of Tchaikovsky, yet in Symphony No. 2, he set out on a new and independent path with music of great individuality with a strong Nordic flavor and only a nod in the direction of his earlier Russian models.

At the time of the writing of Symphony No. 5 in 1915, life became difficult for him. The First World War was shaking Europe. Because Finland was part of the troubled Czarist Empire, Sibelius could not collect his royalties from his German publisher. Work on the symphony provided an escape from the concerns and the hardships of everyday life. On the composer’s fiftieth birthday, December 8, 1915, the new symphony had its first performance in Helsinki. He revised it somewhat for a performance a year later. The first version had four movements, with a scherzo following the slow opening movement. When he reworked it, he compressed the two opening movements into one, and made other substantial revisions.

Soon after the second version was performed, Sibelius, then suffering ill health, had several operations for what was misdiagnosed as throat cancer.

In 1917, he began a final revision of Symphony No. 5, but unfortunately, the Russian Revolution and other social upheavals prevented further progress on the score until 1919, when it finally took its present shape. Sibelius wrote in a letter, “The Fifth Symphony is in a new form, practically newly composed. I am working on it every day. A lively climax at the end, triumphal.” The final product is a noble work, one of the finest of the composer’s seven symphonies.

The final version replaced his four-movement work with one of three-movements with an almost completely new finale. The opening movement, Tempo molto moderato, still resembles the original two separate movements, but they have been blended into a single movement with the scherzo, Allegro moderato, ma poco a poco stretto, now transformed into more of a recapitulation. The new version has more boldness, which immediately becomes evident in the horn call of the opening. The wind instruments introduce all the subject matter of this first movement.

The second movement, Andante mosso, quasi allegretto, has a feeling of pastoral tranquility and develops in a simple, charming, and loosely structured theme and variations with a constant rhythmic figure and a continuously changing melody. The theme is made up of an intense rhythmic pattern stated by pizzicato strings. That rhythmic figure is then used in several melodies that follow. Woodwinds, which begin the movement, provide a background for the variations. At the conclusion, the strings have an expansive theme that is an outgrowth of the opening woodwind figure.

The landscape and animals near Sibelius’ home outside of Järvenpää inspired the music of the last movement, Allegro molto, which alternates between rapid, running passages and a memorable grand theme that the composer slowly assembles out of tiny fragments of melody. Sibelius wrote in his diary in the spring of 1919, that a flight of swans was flying in circles above his house and motivated him to create a subject in response, which became the foundation for the symphony’s finale. The opening music suggests the fluttering of wings, which leads to the lofty, imposing swan theme first heard in the horns and then in the entire brass section. After a long central section including a dissonant version of the theme in the trumpets, the music returns briefly to the main theme before the symphony concludes with loud chords interspersed with silence.

It is scored for two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, timpani, and strings.

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FIRST CHAIR SOCIETY The First Chair Society is a premier package for Signature Symphony at TCC patrons who support the outstanding musical performances and education engagement programs provided by Signature Symphony. Members enjoy special events with visiting guest artists and members of the orchestra throughout the season. We greatly appreciate the members of this special donor group who help make our work possible.

For information about joining the First Chair Society, call 918-595-7977 or email tccfoundation@tccfoundation.org.

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Signature Symphony truly appreciates the generous planned giving donation from the estate of Carolyn Grove, a long-time patron of the orchestra. Her gift will help Signature Symphony continue to provide rich musical experiences in Tulsa through live performances and music education and community engagement programs.

SIGNATURE SYMPHONY ADVISORY BOARD The Signature Symphony Advisory Board supports the mission of the Signature Symphony at TCC and promotes the growth of the orchestra through fundraising, advocacy, and education. The commitment and dedication of these community leaders to the Signature Symphony through membership on our board are greatly appreciated.

Shelby Beil Chair Corbin Bodley Marcia Brueggenjohann Cathy Campbell Laura Cowan Dr. Noam Faingold

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202 3 OVE RTU R E FU N D R AI S E R GAL A April 13, 2023 • River Spirit Casino Resort Celebrate the 2022–2023 Signature Season during this evening of music and cuisine benefiting Signature Symphony and our music education and community engagement programs.

The seventh annual Overture event will feature a cocktail hour, dinner, program, live auction, silent auction, and other activities with a tantalizing musical atmosphere to complement the evening.

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N EW BEGIN N IN G S 2022–2023 SEASON October 1, 2022

February 25, 2023

R AC H M A N I N O F F A N D T H E DA N C E F LO O R

LEG E N DS A N D SWA N S Andrew Sords, violin

Charlie Albright, piano December 16 & 17, 2022

April 8, 2023

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TU LS A S I N G S !

AM E R I C A N J U K E B OX

Tulsa Opera Signature Chorale

Scott Coulter and 2023 Tulsa Sings! Finalists

ALL CONCERTS START AT 7:30 P.M. VanTrease Performing Arts Center for Education 81st Street and Highway 169

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