OKCMOA FREE
ADMISSION TO
TEACHERS &
CHILDREN DURING
TEACHER WALKOUT

OKCMOA will offer free admission to Oklahoma public school teachers and kids 18 and under during the duration of the teacher walkout scheduled to begin April 2. While the Museum is closed Monday, April 2, and each Monday, the Museum will be open regular hours, Tuesday - Saturday: 10 am - 5 pm, Thursday: 10 am-9 pm, and Sunday, noon - 5 pm. "We have a unique role as a state leader in arts education," stated OKCMOA President and CEO, E. Michael Whittington. He added, "Providing free access to the Museum and our programs during this time is just one of the many ways we serve the people of Oklahoma." The statewide walkout is scheduled to take place just after opening weekend of OKCMOA's spring exhibition, "Apichatpong Weerasethakul: The Serenity of Madness," the museum's first video art exhibition. "Apichatpong Weerasethakul: The Serenity of Madness" presents a selected survey of rarely seen experimental short films and video installations by Thai filmmaker, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, alongside his photography, sketches and archival materials that explore threads of socio-political commentary. In addition to OKCMOA's newest exhibition, the Museum offers family-friendly activities. Discovery Packs are free to pick up and contain hands-on items such as sketching materials, picture books relating to creativity and kid-friendly information about works of art on view. Families will also encounter kids labels throughout the galleries as well as a new search activity inside the exhibition "The New Art: A Milestone Collection Fifty Years Later." "The Museum is part of a network of learning that stretches across our state," said Tracy Truels, director of learning and engagement. "We want to be a resource for Oklahoma families and educators who may seek out the Museum during this time as a place for connection, creativity and togetherness." Oklahoma public school teachers will be granted free admission with a valid teacher ID.

PERSIAN CLASSICAL AND
FOLK MUSIC FESTIVAL 
AT UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA
 

The Nowruz Persian Music Festival is scheduled for March 30-31 at the University of Oklahoma. The festival includes a workshop and concert of Nowruz Classical and Folk Persian Music as performed by special guest musicians Ghazaleh Faylinejad, vocal; Farhad Fathieh, kamancheh; Shahin Shahbazi, tar and setar; Farzan Roohparvar, tar and bam tar; and Nariman Assadi, tombak and daf.

 

Presented by OU School of Music, as part of the Masala World Music series. Zoe Sherinian, associate professor of ethnomusicology, serves as festival coordinator.

 

The music workshop is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. Friday, March 30, in Pitman Recital Hall of the Catlett Music Center, 500 W. Boyd St., on the Norman campus. The workshop is open to the public at no charge.

 

The Nowruz Persian Music Concert is set for 8:00 p.m. Saturday, March 31, in Sharp Concert Hall of the Catlett Music Center; and is a ticketed event.

 

For tickets to the Nowruz Persian Music Concert call the OU Fine Arts Box Office at (405) 325-4101, or in person at the Catlett Music Center located at 500 W. Boyd St. Advance purchase tickets are $9 for adults, $5 for students. Tickets sold at the door are $10.

 

For accommodations on the basis of disability call the box office at (405) 325-4101. For additional information or to schedule an interview contact Dr. Zoe Sherinian at zsherinian@ou.edu.

OKLAHOMA CITY
BALLET 
2018 - 2019 SEASON

Oklahoma City Ballet has announced its 2018-2019 lineup of performances. Season ticket subscriptions are available for three or four performance packages.

Leading off the season will be Septime Webre's Alice (In Wonderland),  October 26-28, 2018 at Civic Center Music Hall.  Webre's choreography and Matthew Pierce's musical score bring the Lewis Carroll imaginative classic hurtling into the 21st century with sensational costumes, ingenious sets, and more than its fair share of outlandish characters. This stylish production is an incredible spectacle of dance, theater, and puppetry, and features numerous students from the Oklahoma City Ballet Yvonne Chouteau School. When it premiered at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C., the Washington Post called it a "giddy parade, a pop-art dream, a feat of fevered imagination."

The Nutcracker, presented by Devon Energy, will return to the stage December 14-23, 2018. Choreographed by Oklahoma City Ballet’s Artistic Director Robert Mills, The Nutcracker is Oklahoma City’s favorite holiday tradition and is the perfect way to fill your heart with the spirit of the season. Close to 100 children from The Oklahoma City Ballet Yvonne Chouteau School join Oklahoma City Ballet’s stunning professional dancers, plus the Oklahoma City Philharmonic will perform Tchaikovsky’s famous score live to complete this dreamlike production the whole family will enjoy.

The first production of the new year will be one of the world's oldest surviving ballets and the first major ballet of the Romantic era, La Sylphide,  February 22-24, 2019. This classic story tells the tale of James, a young Scotsman, who on the eve of his wedding day, falls in love with a sylph, a beautiful fairy of the forest. The glorious score from Herman Severin Lovenskiold will be played live by the incomparable Oklahoma City Philharmonic, while August Bournonville's original choreography tells the story that will unravel in a mist of uncertainty as an evil witch vows to keep James from true love of any kind.

The season will end on a high note with a triple bill entitled Visionaries that will thrill ballet enthusiasts and new patrons alike.

The April 19-20, 2019 triple lineup of ballets includes Robert Joffrey’s Pas de Deesses, an Oklahoma Premiere, featuring live piano music performed onstage. Meaning “Dance of the Goddesses,” Pas de Deesses is a delicate remembrance of the Romantic era created by Robert Joffrey in 1954. Inspired by a 19th century lithograph, the ballet is an imaginary glimpse of three great ballerinas – Lucille Grahn, Marie Taglioni, and Fanny Cerrito – meeting and competing for the attentions of the great male dancer and partner Arthur Saint-Leon (who was married to Cerrito). Oklahoma City Ballet is pleased to honor Mr. Joffrey during the 30th anniversary year of his passing by presenting this ballet.

George Balanchine’s The Four Temperaments, a Company Premiere, is one of George Balanchine’s earliest works in his signature neo-classical style, fusing ballet steps with a lean and angular modern sensibility. The ballet is inspired by the medieval belief that humans are made up of four different humors that determine a person’s temperament: melancholic, sanguinic, phlegmatic, and choleric. First performed in 1946 and set to a commissioned score by Paul Hindemith, The Four Temperaments is one of Balanchine’s most iconic ballets and is performed by companies around the world.

The final choreographer on the bill will be Cayetano Soto Ramirez, a new dance maker with a profound talent. His choreography has won numerous awards, and his technical, contemporary, and often unexpected works are in the repertoires of major international dance companies. Oklahoma City Ballet is pleased to debut a world premiere from this forward-thinking artist created especially for our dancers.

Season tickets to three or four performances may be purchased by calling 405-848-TOES (8637).  All performances take place at the Civic Center Music Hall, 201 North Walker, Oklahoma City.  The Oklahoma City Ballet Box Office is open Monday through Friday from 9:00 am-5:00 pm, and is located at 6800 North Classen, Oklahoma City. 

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BRIGHTMUSIC'S 
FOURTH CONCERT
"MONTAGE OF SOUND"
TONIGHT:
7:30 P.M. MARCH 20

“Montage of Sound”

Tuesday, March 20, 2018, 7:30 pm

St. Paul’s Cathedral

127 NW 7^th Street (at Robinson)

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Please see previous post for more complete details, or go to 
http://www.brightmusic.org.  

THE ENDURING ART
OF JEROME TIGER
TALK BY 
M.J. VAN DEVENTER-SHELTON
NOON 3/21/18 
COWBOY & WESTERN 
HERITAGE MUSEUM 

THE ENDURING ART OF JEROME TIGER

March 21, 2018  Brown Bag Noon Luncheon Program 

Tangle at Stick Ball by Jerome Richard Tiger, courtesy of National Cowboy Hall of and Western Heritage Museum

         Author M.J. Van Deventer-Shelton will give a talk "The Enduring Work 
of Jerome Tiger," very influential Muscogee Creek-Seminole artist, at 12 noon at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, 1700 N. E. 63rd Street in Oklahoma City. For more information call 405.478.2250.

               M.J. Van Deventer-Shelton grew up in Muskogee and became acquainted with Jerome Tiger through an English class at Muskogee Central High School in the late 1950s.  Sitting next to Jerome in that class, she often watched him draw while the rest of the class labored over diagramming complex sentences.

          Fast forward to 1967 and the untimely accidental death of Jerome Tiger. By the late 1970s, M. J. embarked on a research journey to piece together the fragments of Jerome's life, visit the artists and collectors he influenced and research the enduring quality of his art ~ paintings that changed the face of Native American art.

          While serving as the Director of Publications and editor of Persimmon Hill for the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum for 18 years, she had the opportunity to study Jerome's art and become friends with Arthur and Shifra Silberman, whose gift of Jerome's art has made this museum's Jerome Tiger paintings the largest archive of his art.

          M.J. is a graduate of  Northeastern State University in Tahlequah and received a Master's Degree in Communications from Oklahoma State University. She did post graduate work in the pre-law program at Tulsa Junior College and at Syracuse University in New York on a Wall Street Journal Fellowship.

          For 25 years, she was a newspaper reporter/editor for the Stillwater News Press, Tulsa World, the Daily Oklahoman, Fort Worth Star Telegram and the Tulsa Tribune, which nominated her for a Pulitzer Prize for public service reporting. During that time, she also was an adjunct professor of journalism at OSU and the University of Central Oklahoma.

          An award-winning journalist, her articles have appeared in Southwest Art, Oklahoma Today, Tulsa People, Oklahoma Magazine, Traditional Home, Cowboys & Indians and Triple AAA's Home & Away. She is the author or co-author of 10 books, and is currently completing a biography on the well-known Oklahoma sculptor, Harold T. Holden.

          Her passions are writing, cooking and gardening. She is the past chairman of the Muskogee Area Master Gardeners, and the current president of the Muskogee Area Arts Council and a board member of the Five Civilized Tribes Museum, which has the second largest holding of Jerome's art, including his only sculpture and his last work, The Stickballer.

Editor's note: The biography was provided courtesy of   
Ms. Van De Venter-Shelton, a long-time friend and teacher of the editor. 

CITY REP'S
"GREATER TUNA"
RUNS MAR. 15-APRIL 8
AT FREEDE LITTLE
THEATER IN CIVIC CENTER

Call 297 - 2264, or go to cityrep.com
for more information.