On the Town: Armstrong Auditorium to showcase ‘Two Fathers, Two Sons’ By: Lillie-Beth Brinkman The Journal Record December 31, 2020
Lillie-Beth Brinkman
Armstrong Auditorium, the stunning performance venue in far north Edmond, continues to bring quality and world-renowned music to live audiences. It will kick off its new season with “Two Fathers, Two Sons” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 7.
The program features acclaimed cellist Julian Schwarz and his father, internationally recognized conductor Gerard Schwarz, performing with the Mozart Orchestra of New York. Gerard Schwarz has won seven Emmy Awards and eight American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) awards and received 14 Grammy nominations. Thursday’s show also includes Armstrong’s music director, Ryan Malone, on harpsicord and his son Seth Malone on cello.
The Oklahoma City Museum of Art names two new curators
Catherine Shotick.
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK
.- Two former OKCMOA employees Dr. Bryn Schockmel and Catherine Shotick have been named curators at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. Schockmel previously worked at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Harvard Art Museums and the Clark Art Institute. Shoticks previous experience includes working for the Richard H. Driehaus Museum in Chicago.
Schockmel was a research fellow at OKCMOA from fall 2019 through summer 2020. She will focus on the Museums collection of European art and works on paper. Shotick served the Museum as an assistant curator from 2013 to 2016. She will concentrate on 19th and 20th century American and modern art.