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Tulsa’s music history runs deep. Its worldwide influence ranges from the legendary Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys broadcasting live from Cain's Ballroom in the 1920s, to evolving the Tulsa Sound in the 1950s and 1960s.
Situated at a musical crossroads between the twang of Texas country and brooding Chicago blues and filtered through its own distinct sensibility, Tulsa birthed a signature sonic style of feeling, texture, and tone that still resonates decades later.
In this guide you'll find the archives of Tulsa's musical past—places like the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame, Woody Guthrie Center and Leon Russell's Church Studio—as well as the bars, clubs, auditoriums and record stores where our present and future cut their teeth.
21 wrz 2019 · The historic space also boasts an archived collection of over 5,000 items relating to Leon Russell and the Tulsa Sound. The Church Studio has been recognized as a National Historic Landmark due to its significance to American Music Culture and History.
HOLY TRINITY GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH (Tulsa). Tulsa's Greek population derived from the influx of Greeks to America after the turn of the twentieth century. Many of Tulsa's Greeks brought with them the Greek or Eastern Orthodox communion of the Christian faith.
5 sty 2013 · Musical Origins. For the ancient Greeks, music was viewed as quite literally a gift from the gods. The invention of specific instruments is attributed to particular deities: Hermes the lyre, Pan the syrinx (panpipes) and Athena the aulos (flute).
7 lip 2021 · Tulsa 1921 (Pity These Ashes, Pity This Dust), featuring the mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges (above), opens with a cold and eerily distanced echo of the devastation of the violently destroyed neighborhood and black business district known as Greenwood. The body of the text speaks of a conversation among a present-day student of history, a ...
