In a competition traditionally dominated by larger schools, senior Mason Drumm snatched the title of Oklahoma’s Outstanding University Jazz Musician of the Year.
Drumm is a Bible major at Oklahoma Christian University and has not only the gift of ministry, but also the gift of music. When asked about his motivations, Drumm speaks of a love for God partnered with a love for people that keeps him wanting to teach wherever he plays. Although he has played in many venues, including with a ...
The Oklahoma Christian University Music Department presents its 23rd-annual Valentine Cabaret dinner theater on Thursday through Saturday, February 9-11.
The festivities will start at 6 p.m. each evening, with a catered candlelight dinner in the McIntosh Conservatory, located inside the Garvey Center on the OC campus, followed by the Cabaret performance at 7 p.m. in the adjacent Recital Hall.
The dinner menu will be a tossed green salad with dressing, followed by a hot London Broil steak, whole ...
The internationally-renowned Christian singing group Acappella has added two more members of the Oklahoma Christian University family.
Raymond Mobley, a 2008 family studies graduate, and Malcolm Himes, a student at OC, have joined the group and will begin touring later this month.
Mobley, a native of Midwest City, Okla., toured with Acappella in May and filled in for members Zac George and Anthony Lancaster at select events in California and Texas.
In 2007, he appeared on national television as ...
Oklahoma Christian University is one of the best colleges in the West according to the nationally known education services company, The Princeton Review. It is one of 121 institutions The Princeton Review recommends in its “Best in the West” section of its website feature, “2012 Best Colleges: Region by Region.”
“We are honored to be ranked among the best universities in the West region,” said Mike O’Neal, president of Oklahoma Christian. “...
Beverly Floyd is a schoolteacher. Keith Floyd is a self-employed electrician whose business has suffered due to changing technologies.
They’re in important professions. They’re doing things they love. But they don’t make the kind of money that makes having three college students easy (if there is such a thing).
The Floyds have had three kids make the short trip from Mesquite, Texas (a Dallas suburb) to Oklahoma Christian. All three were at OC together until Lindsey, the oldest,...
Lauren Wheeler still gets a personalized tour when she walks around campus with her parents, OC grads Heather and Carl Wheeler.
“Well, Mom always takes a few minutes to point out the first place she saw Dad, where they first talked, first kissed, and where he proposed. The proposal story is definitely my favorite,” said Lauren, a senior biology major from Topeka, Kansas.
Indeed, that proposal story is legendary to alumni, circa 1984. It was during Homecoming, and Heather was starring...
The public is invited to donate used, musical instruments to Japan at a free benefit concert held at Oklahoma Christian University on May 22. Organized by Miho Fisher, a native of Japan and a piano accompanist for Oklahoma Christian and OCU, the classical-music concert will feature two pianists, a baritone, three cellists and a violinist. Monetary donations will be accepted as well.
“Many public schools lost their music instruments in the tsunami, and they are asking for help collecting ...
It is not very often that Oklahoma hosts a North American premiere of a classic, European opera. Oklahoma Christian University will do just that on April 17 when the music department offers free admission to its performance of the comedy “Ten Brides and No Groom.”
The U.S. premiere of this new, authoritative edition will be conducted by Ken Adams, professor of music at Oklahoma Christian, and directed by Vince Leseney, associate professor of musical theatre at the University of ...
Oklahoma Christian’s department of music had a very successful and busy week. Three symphonic band majors performed in the Oklahoma Intercollegiate Honor Band in Tulsa at the meeting of the Oklahoma Music Educators Association last Thursday. OC’s entire symphonic band, as well as the Chorale, led by Dr. Ken Adams, also performed at OC’s Libertas Dinner, which honored former President Ronald Reagan that night.
In addition, the Oklahoma Community Orchestra was selected as an ...
The Oklahoma Christian University Music Department has “something coming” on Thursday through Saturday, Feb. 10-12: the 22nd annual Valentine Cabaret dinner theater, featuring the music of the legendary Broadway composer Leonard Bernstein.
The festivities will start at 6 p.m. each evening, with a catered candlelight dinner in the McIntosh Conservatory, located inside the Garvey Center on the OC campus, followed by the Cabaret performance at 7 p.m. in the adjacent Recital Hall. The...
A free massed choir concert of almost 400 singers from six colleges and universities will be the concluding event of the 38th Christian College Choral Festival this weekend. The concert, which is open to the public, will be Saturday, Jan. 15 at 7:30 p.m. at Oklahoma Christian University’s Hardeman Auditorium.
The six university choirs which will perform are Crowley’s Ridge College (Crowley’s Ridge, Ark.), Freed-Hardeman University (Henderson, Tenn.), Harding University (...
OC will host its 34th annual holiday gift to the community, “Cocoa and Carols,” tonight at 7:30 p.m. in Hardeman Auditorium. This free performance features a masterwork for chorus and orchestra, followed by a selection of much loved holiday music. Hot cocoa and cider will be served during intermission of the concert, which is open to the public.
A wide variety of holiday selections will be performed by more than 200 students and faculty of the university’s music department, ...
OC will celebrate the holiday season with its Third Annual Winter Wonderland Week, beginning with the Lighting of the Commons Tuesday night. The family event includes pictures with Santa, live music and horse drawn carriage rides from 6-9 p.m.
The holiday theme will continue Thursday through Saturday as the theater program presents the comedy, “Inspecting Carol,” at 8 p.m. in Judd Theatre. At the risk of losing precious grant sponsorship, a fractious community theater embarks on ...
New York City in the 1920s is coming to the stage at Oklahoma Christian University in the musical “Thoroughly Modern Millie.” The production is part of OC’s homecoming weekend and is directed by alumnus Chad Anderson. It will run Nov. 4-6 at 8 p.m. in Hardeman Auditorium on the OC campus.
The show, with a cast of 25, focuses on the story of Millie Dillmount, who has just moved to the city to start a new life during the Roaring Twenties. This was a time when women were ...
The Oklahoma Community Orchestra opens its 27th season with “A Celtic Connection” Sept. 28. The performance will feature instrumental Celtic group, “Mithril,” and will be held in Hardeman Auditorium on the OC campus at 7:30 p.m. A campus map can be found here.
Oklahoma Christian music professor John Fletcher will conduct the concert, which will also include “Somerset Rhapsody” by Gustav Holst and Aaron Copland’s “Billy The Kid” suite.
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