In memory of Josephine G. Winter, TSO presents 101 Unplugged: Chamber Music Series. The rebranded series features four exclusive musical performances in the heart of the emerging Tulsa Artist District. Located at the northeast corner of East Archer Street and North Boston Avenue,101 Archer is the new venue for Tulsa Symphony Orchestra’s 101 Unplugged Chamber Music Concert Series. Furnished with rotating art exhibitions, the space provides an intimate experience that truly compliments the Chamber Series.

Josephine Grasselli Winter, a mother, philanthropist and supporter of Tulsa society, died of heart disease, on December 30, 2021, at her home near the Philbrook Museum of Art. She was 89.

Friendly and energetic, Josie stood out in any crowd, particularly at the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra where she was usually in the center of a group discussing the ensuing performance or planning future performances. She was the patron of the Tulsa Symphony Loft Series.

Josie was born on January 18, 1932, in Philadelphia, PA, to Caesar Augustin Grasselli II and Elizabeth Hunkin. She lived in London, England, from 1935 - 1939. While her father closed the du Pont offices in Germany, Josie and her mother fled to the United States on the last passenger ship out of England, which zig zagged across the North Atlantic to avoid the attacks by German U Boats. She and her family moved to Wilmington, Delaware, in 1940. Josie Grasselli attended the Madeira School in McLeod, Virginia and graduated in 1949. She spent her college years at Vassar College in New York and Saint Andrews in Scotland and received her BA from Vassar in 1953.

In an era where few women moved into professional careers, Josie Winter started her career as an Intelligence Analyst for the U.S. Government in Washington, D.C. Her work for the U.S. Government took Josie to numerous Middle East countries including Egypt, Iran, Lebanon and Syria. Josie entertained her children with many stories of her adventures in the Middle East. During this period, she led a wonderful social life in Washington where she enjoyed planning the Bachelor and Spinster Ball.

In 1959, Josie turned her attention and the expertise she had acquired to work for NBC News. During her three years working as a research assistant manager for NBC News in Washington, D.C., Josie met the love of her life, Thomas Greeley Winter. Josie and Tom were married in Wilmington, Delaware, on June 3, 1960.

Josie gave birth to her first two children in Washington, D.C., Thomas Augustin Winter, and Frank Cedric Winter II. On June 3,1963, the family moved to Stillwater Oklahoma, where Josie's husband, Tom, eventually became the head of the Physics Department for Oklahoma State University. In Stillwater, she gave birth to two more children, William Hunkin Winter and Clare McGowin Winter.

The Winter family moved to Tulsa in 1971, where Tom Winter became Chairman of the Physics Department at the University of Tulsa. The family grew up happily as members of the Tulsa Tennis Club. Josie was a great supporter of the ASCPA, the Oklahoma Heart Fund, the Junior League of Tulsa, The Holland Hall Book and Art Fair and recruiter in the mid-west region for Vassar College. Josie spent decades serving as a volunteer on boards of a variety of organizations including Planned Parenthood, South Kent School, and the Telluride Chamber Music Festival, but her most important work was for her beloved Tulsa Symphony. Josie Winter had a second home in Telluride, Colorado, where she donated her time to numerous causes, hiked, skied and vacationed with her loving family.