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2023 Summer Festival "Scenes from Childhood"

Saturday, June 10, 2023 - 7:30pm
Sunday, June 11, 2023 - 4:00pm
Tuesday, June 13, 2023 - 7:30pm
Thursday, June 15, 2023 - 7:30pm
First Baptist Church of Oklahoma City
Admission: 
$20 per concert (students and active-duty military free with ID)

Save $30 off individual admission by purchasing a Summer Festival Pass! Subscribers who already have a full season pass do not need a separate festival pass. 

Program: 

CONCERT NO. 1, CHILD PRODIGY – 7:30 PM, SATURDAY, JUNE 10

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sonata in G Major for Violin and Piano, K. 301
  • Aaron Jay Kernis, Mozart en route (or, A Little Travelling Music) for String Trio
  • Felix Mendelssohn, Piano Trio in C Minor, Op.66
  • Carl Maria von Weber, Piano Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 8

Musicians

CONCERT NO. 2, STORIES AND RHYMES (CHILDREN’S CONCERT FOR CHILDREN OF ALL AGES) – 4:00 PM, SUNDAY, JUNE 11

THE MAE RUTH SWANSON MEMORIAL CONCERT

  • Francis Poulenc, L’histoire de Babar for Piano Four Hands and Narrator
  • Robert Schumann, Scenes from Childhood for Solo Piano
  • Paul Hindemith, A Frog He Went A Courting: Variations on an English Nursery Rhyme for Cello and Piano

CONCERT NO. 3, ONCE UPON A TIME – 7:30 PM, TUESDAY, JUNE 13

  • Maurice Ravel, Ma mère l’Oye for Piano Four Hands
  • Robert Schumann, Fantasy Pieces for Clarinet and Piano
  • Ennio Morricone, Selections from Cinema Paradiso, Once Upon a Time in the West, and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Arranged for Clarinet and Piano by Michelle Mangani
  • Jerod Tate (Chickasaw), Snake Oil for Saxophone, Cello, and Piano

CONCERT NO. 4, YOUTHFUL BRILLIANCE – 7:30 PM, THURSDAY, JUNE 15

  • Francis Poulenc, Trio for Oboe, Bassoon, and Piano
  • Ludwig van Beethoven, Trio in G Major, WoO 37 for Flute, Bassoon, and Piano
  • Joseph Miroslav Weber, Septet in E Major, “Aus Meinem Leben”
Musicians: 
Parthena Owens, Flute
Lisa Harvey-Reed, Oboe
Chad Burrow, Clarinet
Rodney Ackmann, Bassoon
Jonathan Nichol, Saxophone
Mirella Gable, Horn
James Rester, Horn
Katrin Stamatis, Violin
Brent Williams, Violin
Marat Gabdullin, Violin
Mark Neumann, Viola
Jonathan Ruck, Cello
Erin Yeaman, Cello
Meredith Blecha-Wells, Cello
Amy I-Lin Cheng, Piano
Hyejin Cho, Piano
Ruirui Ouyang Johnson, Piano
Sallie Pollack, Piano

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Our Venue

2022 Festival Venue

St. Paul's Cathedral
127 NW 7th St
Oklahoma City, OK 73102

New Venue!


First Baptist Church
1201 N Robinson Ave
Oklahoma City, OK 73103

Season Support

Regular Season concerts are made possible in part by grants from the Oklahoma Arts Council.

Season Musicians

Jonathan Nichol, Saxophone

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