Since the dawn of language, we have been storytellers. It’s how we explore our history, try to make sense of the world as it is today, and share our visions of the world as it could be in the days to come. From superheroes and national heroes to lovers and generals to earthen rocks and metaphorical moons, the musical tales of our 2025-26 season rise to delight and challenge us by asking, “Who gets to tell the stories of our nations and heroes, and to whose voices will we choose to listen?”

Legends
Sunday, November 2, 2025
2:00pm @ O’Shaughnessy Auditorium
Samuel Coleridge -Taylor: Othello
Michael Daugherty: “Red Cape Tango” from Metropolis Symphony
David Diamond: Music for Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet

Legends take the stage in the MPO’s 2025-26 season opener! Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and David Diamond translate Shakespearean verse into symphonic sound, while Michael Daugherty summons the Man of Steel through bells and brass.

Saturday, March 14, 2026
7:30pm @ O’Shaughnessy Auditorium
Valerie Coleman: Umoja for wind quintet
Antonin Dvorak: “The Colors of the Flag” from The American Flag
Aaron Copland: Selections from Old American Songs
William Grant Still: Plain Chant for America
Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 2

Who gets to speak for a nation? Who dares to tell its histories, raise its flag, and call its citizens to a more unified future? The MPO joins forces with One Voice Mixed Chorus in an evening of fanfare, song, and symphony.

Rivers & Moons
Saturday, May 16, 2026
7:30pm @ O’Shaughnessy Auditorium
Claude Debussy (orch. Ravel): Danse “Tarantelle styrienne”
Niloufar Nourbakhsh: World Premiere, title TBD
Louis Ballard (a.k.a. Honganozhe – “Stands with Eagles”): Four Moons

Claude Debussy’s jaunty tarantelle frolics at the confluence of two Austrian rivers. A world premiere by Niloufar Nourbakhsh paints a musical autobiography of the earth, as told through the rocks upon which we dance. Louis Ballard’s ballet celebrates four legendary Oklahoma ballerinas of Indigenous North American descent.

2026 Pride Concert
Details TBD – June 2026 – Stay tuned!