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The Tulsa Symphony Orchestra Presents an Evening of Film Music by John Williams

Public Radio Tulsa | By Rich Fisher

Published May 8, 2015 at 12:23 PM CDT

John Williams -- the still-active genius who created the music for such classic movies as "Jaws," "Star Wars," "Raiders of the Lost Ark," "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," "E.T.: The Extraterrestrial," and "Schindler's List" (to name just a handful) -- is arguably the greatest composer ever to work in Hollywood. And his memorable, broadly popular music will be the focal point for the final Tulsa Symphony Orchestra concert of this season. Tomorrow night, Saturday the 9th, beginning at 7:30pm, the TSO will present a program entitled "Simply Cinematic: The Music of John Williams" in the Tulsa PAC's Chapman Music Hall. Our guest on ST today is Ron Spigelman, who will be the guest conductor for this concert. You can learn more about the show here, and can read the program notes for the concert at this link.

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Rich Fisher

Rich Fisher passed through KWGS about thirty years ago, and just never left. Today, he is the general manager of Public Radio Tulsa, and the host of KWGS’s public affairs program, StudioTulsa, which celebrated its twentieth anniversary in August 2012 . As host of StudioTulsa, Rich has conducted roughly four thousand long-form interviews with local, national, and international figures in the arts, humanities, sciences, and government. Very few interviews have gone smoothly. Despite this, he has been honored for his work by several organizations including the Governor's Arts Award for Media by the State Arts Council, a Harwelden Award from the Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa, and was named one of the “99 Great Things About Oklahoma” in 2000 by Oklahoma Today magazine.

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