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Bass Center Overview (pdf) |
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1 Black-box Theater |
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5 Music Labs |
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6 Ensemble Rehearsal Rooms |
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11 Recording Venues |
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21st Century Apple Digital Campus |
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38 Teaching Studios |
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60 Sound-isolated Practice Rooms |
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133 Steinway Pianos |
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210 New Conn-Selmer Instruments |
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319 Students |
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113,000 Square Feet |
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Architect: Beck Associates |
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Gen. Contractor: Manhattan Construction |
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Acoustics: Kirkegaard Associates |
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Wanda L. Bass Music Center
The Bass Music Center is an unprecedented creative collaboration between musicians and acousticians, architects and network designers, craftsmen and visionaries. This joyful synergy created a place inspired by a dream: a dream to build the world's finest facility for teaching music. It is an inspiration built to inspire; a finely crafted instrument designed for students and faculty, beckoning them to grow beyond their imagination.
GRAND OPENING
Wanda L. Bass Music Center
Oklahoma City University
10am Saturday
April 1st, 2006
NW 25th and Blackwelder
Oklahoma City
SEALING OF TIME CAPSULE
300-MEMBER FESTIVAL CHOIR & ORCHESTRA
WORLD PREMEIRE FANFARE
TOURS OF BASS MUSIC CENTER
APPEARANCES BY
Wanda Bass, patron of the arts
Brad Henry, Governer of Oklahoma
Erik Lindbergh, grandson of Col. Charles Lindbergh
Bruce Stevens, President, Steinway & Sons
John Stoner, President, Conn-Selmer instruments
John Couch, V.P. for Education, Apple Computer
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