Events

Travel to exotic lands as Tulsa Symphony retells the famous one thousand and one stories of "Arabian Nights" in Rimsky-Korsakov's famous tone poem, Scheherazade. This concert introduces Tulsa Symphony's Principal Guest Conductor, Daniel Hege and continues the tradition of featuring an exciting emerging artist with Crescendo Award Winner, Yun-Chin Zhou performing Liszt's Piano Concerto No. […]

Daniel Hege returns to the podium to conduct Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in A Majorfeaturing Tulsa Symphony's Principal Clarinet, David Carter. The concert opens with Debussy's ethereal tone poem, Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, which paints dreamlike impressions of desire. What the faun sought in love, the revolutionaries sought in freedom in Shostakovich's Symphony […]

From Respighi's majestic setting of Bach's Wachet Auf ("Sleepers Awake") and Mendelssohn's transcendent "Reformation" Symphony, to Beethoven's deptiction of peasants rejoicing after the storm, this program celebrates the desire to renew the human spirit. "Spirit and Awakenings" marks the return of guest conductor Sarah Ioannides, described by the New York Times as a conductor with […]

Conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, inspirational teacher, speaker, and author of The Art of Possibility, the extraordinary Benjamin Zander returns to Tulsa to conduct Mahler's magnificent Symphony No. 2, . For the first of this two-part, momentous concert experience, Maestro Zander and the orchestra invite the audience to go "Beneath the Score" through discussion […]

The concluding performance in the Classic Series presents favorite American composers and some of their most well-known works. Aaron Copland’s Symphony No. 3, which features his powerful Fanfare for the Common Man, George Gershwin’sRhapsody in Blue with soloist, Jeffrey Biegel, and Aaron Jay Kernis’ Musica Celestisall combine to create a spectacular finale to Tulsa Symphony’s […]

Tulsa Oratorio Chorus joins Tulsa Symphony on a work that became the central and longest work of Brahms’ career, the German Requiem. Unconvinced of man’s afterlife, Brahms composed this work after the deaths of his beloved friend and fellow composer Robert Schumann and then his own mother. Ein Deutsches Requiem was not intended as a […]

Conducted by Daniel Hege, this program is sure to elicit a smile from seasoned concertgoers and first-timers alike. Haydn’s Symphony No. 90 is not without glimpses into his humorous, prankster side. Influenced by his love for both folk music and for French impressionistic music, Kodaly was able to paint in impressionistic orchestral colors the comedic […]