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Jazz Swing & Blues Great Ernie Fields' Collection Donated to OKPOP Museum
Source: Chris M. Slawecki
Ernie Fields Jr., the music contractor for American Idol, The Voice, and X Factor; and his sister Carmen Fields, an acclaimed journalist in the Boston area, have donated items from their famous father Ernie Fields Sr., and some of their own work, to the Oklahoma Museum of Popular Culture (OKPOP). The gift consists of artifacts, recordings, photographs, posters and documents related to Tulsa musician Ernie Fields Sr. The elder Fields began his career in music in the 1920s in Tulsa ...
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Martin Helmchen
German pianist
Martin Helmchen (born 1982) is a German pianist. He has played with international orchestras and has recorded discs of many classical composers.
Life
[edit]Helmchen was born in Berlin. He began his piano studies at the age of six, and graduated from the Hanns Eisler Music Conservatory as a student of Galina Iwanzowa, and in 2001 from the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover as a student of Arie Vardi.
Career
[edit]He was a featured soloist in the BBC New Generation Artists program from 2005 to 2007.[1] Helmchen has given concerts with the San Francisco Symphony,[2] the Vienna Philharmonic, the Deutschen Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and the NHK Symphony Orchestra. His specialty is chamber music, where he has performed extensively with Heinrich Schiff and Marie-Elisabeth Hecker.[3] Collaborations with further artists have included Gidon Kremer, Christian Tetzlaff, Sharon Kam, Tabea Zimmermann, Juliane Ba
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This Week on The Jimmy Tingle Show…
I talked to journalist, producer and author Carmen Fields about her PBS Documentary “Goin’ back to T – Town” about the 1921 “Tulsa race massacre” in the Greenwood district of Tulsa, OK also known as Black Wallstreet.
A native of Tulsa, Carmen and inom also discuss her new book “Goin’ Back to T-Town” about her father’s legendary and groundbreaking Jazz ensemble “The Ernie Fields Orchestra”. It is a great interview on perseverance, innovation and overcoming racial barriers for both for her dad’s music and her hometown of Tulsa, OK.
Carmen will be discussing her new book at The Harvard Book Store on August 1st in Cambridge, Mass with legendary radio and podcast host of “Open Source” Christopher Lydon.
Carmen’s Bio
Carmen Fields has been a fixture in the greater Boston journalism community for over 30 years. Her experience includes both print a