• about the symphony
• orchestra personnel
• meet lauren green
• symphony hall
The Symphony’s Home
The Bartlesville Community Center
The Bartlesville Symphony is fortunate to rehearse and perform in one
of Oklahoma’s, if not the nation’s, finest “smaller”
concert halls. The 1700-seat Bartlesville Community Center was built in
1982 and serves the entire region as a multi-purpose facility for all
types of performances and events. Its concert hall is renowned for its
beauty and marvelous acoustics, and it is on this stage that the Bartlesville
Symphony has become such a vital force in the community’s culture.
The hall was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright protégé William
Wesley Peters of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and Taliesin. The striking
architecture, particularly in juxtaposition to Wright’s famous Price
Tower across the street, has made the Community Center a visual
focal point of downtown Bartlesville.
Box Office
The Community Center Box Office handles all single ticket sales for the
Bartlesville Symphony. Click here for a seating chart. Tickets may be
bought in person or over the phone 918-336-ARTS (2787). Credit cards are
accepted. More ticket
info…
Driving Directions
The Bartlesville Community Center is located at the corner of Cherokee
and Adams in downtown Bartlesville. From Highway 75 take Highway 60 (Adams
Blvd.) west approximately 2 miles through downtown. Map…
The Center and our Conductor -- A Side Note
Symphony Music Director Lauren Green has probably the longest continuous
working relationship with the Center, beginning with his involvement in
the final stages of planning when he came to Bartlesville in 1977. In
late 1981, several months before the Center opened to the public, Green
conducted the first performance on the Center’s stage, amassing
members of the Symphony and Choral Society to perform (without audience
as there were no seats yet) Handel’s Messiah amidst the dust, concrete
and scaffolding. And Green’s wedding reception in 1982 was the first
of hundreds that have since been held in the Center’s Community
Hall. Since then he has appeared on its stage regularly as conductor,
performer and even actor and formerly served as Vice Chairman of the Bartlesville Community
Center Trust Authority, the Center’s governing body.
