1 Information Ordering Welcome to OK Mozart elcome to the 259th anniversary of Wolfgang Mozart’s birth. This year HOW TO ORDER TICKETS Wthe OK Mozart Festival is celebrating in style by taking a musical trip Guide to 2015 Festival Events to Italy—the place where 17-year-old Wolfgang was given the Papal Order of • Day-by-day schedule of events – Pages 12-18 Knight of the Golden Spur for his extraordinary musical gifts. • Showcase Events (alphabetical order) – Pages 19-29 • OK Mozart Concert Order Form – Pages 31-32 Mozart had heard Allegri’s “Miserere” (have mercy on me, O God) during a performance and went home and wrote the entire score from memory. When PURCHASING TICKETS the authorities discovered that he possessed a score, he was arrested – the score OKM Box Office: (918) 336-9800 BCC Box Office: (918) 337-2787 was sacred to the church. But after discovering that Mozart could write it again, Monday through Friday, 10am to 4pm if need be, the Pope intervened and knighted him. Fax: (918) 336-9525 A big part of OK Mozart’s celebration will begin prior this year’s festival with the opening of our very own Fill out and fax Order Forms on pages 31-32 to OKM small concert venue–Aurora Hall. The hall is located on the north side ground floor of the Aurora Professional Online: www.okmozart.com Building at 415 S. Dewey, in downtown Bartlesville. The entire building was given to OK Mozart through the www.facebook.com/okmfestival generosity of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Ambler. It also houses the offices of the Bartlesville Symphony along with attorneys, doctors, and other occupants. In Person: OKM Box Office 415 S. Dewey, Suite 100, Bartlesville As Spring arrives, be looking for signs of life in our new “multi-purpose” room. Aurora Hall will be available for or… rent for receptions, parties, meetings and, of course, OKM house concerts and chamber music performances. We’ll keep the public informed, and by all means invite everyone who is interested to stop by and check on the Bartlesville Community Center, progress of our new space anytime you’re in the neighborhood. 300 S.E. Adams Blvd., Bartlesville • We gladly accept Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover cards • There will be no additional handling charges or Randy Thompson mailing fees. All costs are covered by OK Mozart. Executive Director • Group rates available OK Mozart International Festival 2 OKM’s Dear Music Lovers, 31st For those of you who attended last year’s OK Mozart of Paganini”, Mozart’s “Requiem” with the International Festival, thank you so very much Season Bartlesville Choral Society and the triumphant for your overwhelmingly positive response to return of the Canadian Brass. our efforts to put the OK and Mozart back into OK Mozart. We feel very good about what we All of the above is in addition to our renowned accomplished artistically and we are grateful to mid-day chamber music concerts featuring the you for your support. Aeolus Quartet, a promising young group widely recognized for their highly innovative and engaging programs, who have served as For those who are new to OK Mozart, I welcome you with open teaching faculty at Stanford University. arms to our musical family. You’ll have the pleasure of hearing our resident orchestra, Amici New York, whose players include Whether you’ve experienced the glory of the music at the OK Mozart instrumentalists who play in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, New International Festival before or are new to our offerings, this is an York Philharmonic, Broadway pit orchestras and many other venues exciting time for OK Mozart and we want you to revel in what we in the New York area. In addition, you’ll be part of a new tradition at have to give. OK Mozart—our opening concert with the OK Mozart All-State Youth Orchestra and Amici New York sharing the stage for the second year in a row. This year we celebrate the musical bounty of Italy. From Respighi’s glorious “Pines of Rome” to Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons”, with violin Constantine Kitsopoulos sensation Chad Hoopes, to a semi-staged presentation of Mozart’s Artistic Director “Don Giovanni” featuring singers from Oklahoma, to an extravagant OK Mozart International Festival Monday night masked ball entitled L’Amore d’Italia, and Jon Kimura Parker’s performance of Rachmaninoff’s “Rhapsody on a Theme 3 2015 Festival Main Concerts Saturday, June 6 Sunday, June 7 Opening Daytime Celebration A Musical Tour of Italy 9am–1pm ∙ Prairie Song ∙ Admission is FREE Amici New York Orchestra with Chad Hoopes, guest violinist and the OK Mozart All-State Orchestra Start off the 2015 OKM Festival with a full morning of family fun 3pm ∙ Bartlesville Community Center beginning with an early Fun Run at 6:30am jogging along the Tickets $45/$30/$15 Adults ∙ $25/$15/$10 Students natural terrain followed by tours of Prairie Song’s historically recreated 1800s Old West town, including visits to its buildings, Amici New York Orchestra and OKM Artistic Director Constantine live music by the Corky Davis Country Swing Band, pony rides, Kitsopoulos welcome guest artist, Chad Hoopes, for a performance tribal dancing, kid’s petting zoo, do-it-yourself branding irons, of Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons”. Then Amici New York joins some of wagon rides, and more. Oklahoma’s brightest and best young talent in a joint concert with the OK Mozart All-State Orchestra featuring the “Intermezzo” from followed by… Pucccini’s “Madama Butterfly” and Respighi’s thrilling “Pines of Rome”. Free Opening Night Concert Monday, June 8 6pm ∙ Bartlesville Community Center ∙ Admission is FREE L’Amore d’Italia Gala Ball 7pm ∙ Bartlesville Hilton Garden Inn Ballroom OK Mozart Festival welcomes Bartlesville music lovers of all ages $150 per person ∙ Formal attire to hear the Tulsa Youth Orchestra perform composer Joseph Rivers’ symphony, Buffalo Run, composed to celebrate Take a black tie dinner/dance excursion to Italy via the L’Amore the American bison and its essential value to the d’Italia ball. Enjoy cocktails and dinner followed by Native American way of life, along with Tulsa dancing to romantic strains of Italian music provided instructor Judy Fu’s adult Tai Chi dancers. by members of the Amici New York Orchestra, conducted by Artistic Director Constantine Kitsopoulos with seductive arias by singers from the Don Giovanni opera cast. 2014 Gala 4 Tuesday, June 9 Friday, June 12 Spencer Prentiss/Becky Wallace Chamber Concert Woolaroc Outdoor Concert 8pm ∙ Bartlesville Community Center (on stage) 8pm ∙ Woolaroc Museum and $25 Adults ∙ $15 Students Wildlife Preserve, Clyde Lake $25 Adults ∙ $15 Students ∙ $15 Bus This performance will feature the Aeolus Quartet, a powerful group of (bus not included in ticket price) young award-winning musicians who have been plotting an ascending Advance ticket purchase course throughout the country, currently serving as the Graduate recommended ∙ Children 14 and Resident String Quartet at the Juilliard School. In addition, renowned under FREE pianist Jon Kimura Parker and the Amici New York Orchestra wind Woolaroc principals will offer a moving performance of Mozart’s “Quintet for OKM’s 2015 Festival continues outdoors Outdoor Concert Piano and Winds”. at Woolaroc with a selection of favorite Italian opera excerpts as presented by the Amici Wednesday, June 10 New York Orchestra and singers from the Don Giovanni Mozart’s Don Giovanni cast. Topping off the evening will be a medley of rousing patriotic 7:30pm ∙ Bartlesville Community Center music followed by the visual thrill of fireworks. $45/$30/$15 Adults ∙ $25/$15/$10 Students Saturday, June 13 Characters of Mozart’s enchanting opera, “Don Giovanni”, have The Grand Finale Concert intrigued audiences all over the world. The story of Don Giovanni and with Jon Kimura Parker, piano his many conquests, attempted or otherwise, is one of a rascally fellow and the Amici New York Orchestra who claims that wine and women are the essence of humankind. The 8pm ∙ Bartlesville Community center Amici New York Orchestra and Bartlesville Choral Society will perform $55/$40/$20 Adults ∙ $25/$15/$10 Students a semi-staged version conducted by OKM Artistic Director Constantine Kitsopoulos. The performance will feature gifted singers auditioned Bartlesville Choral Society and Tulsa Oratorio Chorus under the and hand-picked from throughout the state of Oklahoma. direction of Susan Mueller joins the Amici New York Orchestra and Artistic Director Constantine Kitsopoulos in presenting Mozart’s final Thursday, June 11 work, his inspirational “Requiem”, with guest artist, pianist Jon Kimura Canadian Brass Parker performing Rachmaninoff’s “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini”. 8pm ∙ Bartlesville Community Center This performance is one that promises to bring the house down. $35/$25/$15 Adults ∙ $25/$15/$10 Students This concert features the internationally renowned Canadian Brass founded by Charles Daellenbach and Gene Watts. The first chamber ensemble to solo on the main stage at Carnegie Hall, they are known as the “Kings of Brass” and for their unique brand of performance attire consisting of formal black suits with white running shoes. 5 Main Concerts 2015 Festival Festival Artists CONSTANTINE KITSOPOULOS Constantine Kitsopoulos, Artistic Director, returns to the OK Mozart Festival for his third season. Acclaimed worldwide, he has made a name for himself as a conductor whose musical experiences comfortably span the worlds of opera and symphony in such venues as Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall and Royal Albert Hall, and also musical theater, where he can often be found leading orchestras on Broadway. Kitsopoulos is also enjoying his eighth season as music director of the Queens Symphony Orchestra and continues as music director of the Festival of the Arts Boca.