By Tanner Holubar
CNHI News Oklahoma May 15, 2021
5 hrs ago
With the announcement of its third season lineup, the McKnight Center for the Performing Arts at Oklahoma State University is setting itself up to emerge from the pandemic while reigniting peopleâs passion for the arts.Â
During an announcement Saturday, the McKnight Center unveiled its season lineup headlined by country megastar Tim McGraw and Broadway legend Bernadette Peters.Â
With the goal of providing as entertaining of a season as possible and plenty of educational opportunities for OSU and Stillwater Public Schools students, this season is shaping up to be the best so far for the McKnight Center.
The McKnight Center for the Performing Arts announced its 2021-2022 Season includes legendary Country musician, Tim McGraw, and Broadway icon, Bernadette Peters as part of its impressive slate of performers.
Ken Krause
“You’ve never heard anything like this!”
That was a common refrain in the early 1920s when the grand movie palaces across the country began to introduce audiences to a new musical invention: the theater pipe organ.
A century later, the same may soon be said at the city of Medford’s historic Chevalier Theatre, where the installation of a 1922 Wurlitzer theater organ is approaching completion.
The theater pipe organ was an early 1900s creation of a British inventor and telephone engineer, Robert Hope-Jones. He called his instrument a Unit Orchestra, because it was designed to imitate and sound of a full orchestra – some 300 instruments worth – at the hands (and feet) of just one person: the organist.