Arts council grants boost Lawton groups this season
Oklahoma Arts and Humanities Council grants exceed ten thousand to local groups, with McMahon Foundation and Arts for All funding adding to a total of fifty thousand four hundred thirty one dollars. Lawton Philharmonic receives sixty ten from the state council. Lawton Fort Sill Art Council gains four hundred for the autumn show.
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Andy Hanks
National Endowment For the Arts
Senate House
Lawton
Oklahoma Arts and Humanities Council
McMahon Foundatio
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Arts For
McMahon Foundation
Lawton Philharmonic
AFA
State Council
LCT
William Merrill
William E. Guilford
Central Oklahoma Multi- Media Association
COMMA
Oklahoma
National Endowment of the Arts
Washingtonian Diane Walsh Wins Top Prize in Munich Contest
Diane Walsh 24 of Washington D C won first prize in Munich earning 2500 dollars with engagements in Germany and Austria this season and next. No first prizes were awarded in violin organ bassoon and wind quartet. Walsh to perform a solo recital in the Young Concert Artists series at Hunter College Playhouse New York on May 4. The United States had the most record players.
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Munich
Diane Walsh
Washington, D.C
Germany
Austria
Miss Walsh
New York
Hunter College Playhouse
Philharmonic Youth Winners Named in Lawton
Eddie Weisenburger Jr. and Leslie Cullen are named Lawton Philharmonic Youth winners. They will perform solo movements from Hayden and Mozart at two children’s concerts March 9 in McMahon Memorial Auditorium. Auditions were held Sunday at Cameron with a panel including Dr. Gene C. Smith Alan Bostwick and Dr. Robert Watkins.
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Lawton Philharmonic Orchestra
Eddie Weisenburger Jr
CWO
Edward J. Weisenburger
NW Compass
Leslie Cullen
Col
Paul S. Cullen
The
Philharmonic
McMahon Memorial Auditorium
Weisenburger
Central Junior High
Hayden
Marjorie Farrell
Tomlinson Junior High
Leslie
Jeannine Edwards
Mozart
Cameron
Gene C. Smith
Alan Bostwick
Oberlin President to Play New York Piano Concert
Oberlin College President Emil Danenberg will give a piano concert at Alice Tully Hall in New York on February 17. He will perform Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor with the New Hungarian Quartet, in residence at Oberlin since 1972. This marks his first New York appearance since becoming president last April. Danenberg, a long time concert pianist, earned his advanced music degree from UCLA in 1944 and was born in Hong Kong in 1917, debuting at age five.
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Oberlin, Ohio
Emil Danenberg
Oberlin College
New York
Alice Tully Hall
Danenberg
Brahms
New Hungarian Quartet
University of California At
Los Angeles
Hong Kong
Bruce Marks Named Ballet West Co Artistic Director
Bruce Marks named co artistic director of Ballet West joining William Christensen on June 1. Marks, a principal dancer with the Royal Danish Ballet, has choreographed for that company and danced with American Ballet Theatre in the 1960s with his wife Toni Lander. They live in Copenhagen with three children. Lander will teach and stage ballets for Ballet West. New York AP reports the Modern Jazz Quartet plans tours in Oct Nov 1976 and Apr May 1977 with John Lewis Milt Jackson Percy Heath and Connie Kay.
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Salt Lake City, Utah
Ballet West
Bruce Marks
Marks
William F. Christensen
Royal Danish Ballet
Toni Lander
American Ballet Theater
Copenhagen
Miss Lander
New York
Modern Jazz Quartet
John Lewis
Milt Jackson
Percy Heath
Connie Kay
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