The Tulsa Symphony Orchestra, with Daniel Hege Conducting, Offers Antonín Dvorák & Leonard Bernstein

Public Radio Tulsa | By Rich Fisher

Published October 11, 2018 at 4:22 PM CDT

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Aired on Friday, October 5th.

The Tulsa Symphony Orchestra will soon kick off its new season with an Opening Night Gala Concert at the Tulsa PAC. (It happens tomorrow night, Saturday the 6th, with more info posted here.) On the program, the lyrical and masterful cello concerto by Dvorák, which will feature a guest appearance by the world-renowned cellist, Lynn Harrell. Principal Guest Conductor Daniel Hege will lead the orchestra in a concert that will also boast exuberant selections by Leonard Bernstein (who would've turned 100 in August). Hege is our guest.

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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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