Drive-In Classical Music at a Drive-In Theater? We’re In!
Sponsored content: Photo credit: Larry F. Levenson Park University’s International Center for Music’s inaugural “Stanislav and Friends” benefit concert last year was extraordinary. Patrons had a...
View ArticleYou Had Us At Mobile Music Box
What weighs over 4,000 pounds and delights thousands of people every week? It’s the Kansas City Symphony’s new outdoor stage-on-wheels, the aptly named Mobile Music Box. At a time when audiences...
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Photo by: Trae Patton/NBC The Texas Tenors are known in music circles as the good ol’ boys with the big booming voices. Ever since they made it big on the fourth season of America’s Got Talent, the...
View ArticleKansas City Symphony Poised To Move To Webster School Building In Crossroads
Looks like one of Kansas City’s most beloved cultural institutions is about to get new digs. The Kansas City Symphony announced today that it will be creating new headquarters this summer at the...
View ArticleLet the Music Play! The Kansas City Symphony Returns
The Kansas City Symphony announced today they are welcoming in-person audiences to three concerts this May and June inside their performance home at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. “We...
View ArticleFour Art Events You Should Not Miss in May
Holly Addi at Blue Gallery Slowly, tentatively, with masks and social distancing, art galleries in the Crossroads are reopening to the public. On the First Friday in May, Blue Gallery displays the...
View ArticleReady for Live Music? The Kansas City Chamber Orchestra Returns Memorial Day...
The Kansas City Chamber Orchestra is bringing back the music in a series of outdoor performances starting this Sunday at 7 p.m. to celebrate Memorial Day Weekend. Grab your picnic baskets and get ready...
View ArticleAssociate Conductor Jason Seber Answers Four Questions
Associate Conductor of the Kansas City Symphony, Jason Seber. Photo by Todd Rosenberg Now celebrating his fourth year with the Kansas City Symphony, Jason Seber has built a strong rapport with the...
View ArticleFour Art Events You Should Not Miss in June
The Art of Meighan Morrison Collected by Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi, fashion designer Christian Siriano, and interior designer Victoria Hagan, the large abstract paintings of Meighan Morrison...
View ArticleClark Morris, Executive and Artistic Director of the Harriman-Jewell Series,...
Photo by Corie English Clark Morris wears two hats and wears them well. He is the vice president for advancement at William Jewell College in Liberty and also the executive and artistic director for...
View ArticleThe Friends of Chamber Music Returns with a Stellar Line-Up
Sponsored content: Despite the hiccup of 2020, The Friends of Chamber Music recently announced their upcoming 2021/2022 season and it’s a star-studded lineup of performances. “2020 would have been our...
View ArticleFive Things You Don’t Know About Me: Pianist Kenny Broberg
When it comes to playing classical piano, Kenny Broberg is now at the top of his game—and he’s only 27 years old. The Park ICM graduate student recently won the American Pianists Association’s American...
View ArticleFour Art Events You Should Not Miss in November
Top: The Hues of Her Father’s Dreams by Joseph A Newton. Bottom: 20 Odd by Sara Sonié Joi Thompson-Ruffin. Testimony: African American Artists Collective If you want to see Thompson-Ruffin’s moving 20...
View ArticleElizabeth Suh Lane, Executive Artistic Director-Founder of Bach Aria Soloists...
Elizabeth Suh Lane. Photo by Jeff Evrard Acclaimed by renowned music director Michael Tilson Thomas as “among the finest chamber musicians in America today,” violinist Elizabeth Suh Lane has forged a...
View ArticlePianist and Artistic Director Stanislav Ioudenitch Answers Four Questions
Stanislav Ioudenitch It’s a long and winding road from Tashkent, Uzbekistan, to Parkville, Missouri. But it is the path that Stanislav Ioudenitch took from his birthplace to where he now belongs as...
View ArticleFour Art Events You Should Not Miss in March
Cellophane by Hendrik Kerstens Girl with the Pearl Earring, the Paper Towel Collar, the Crown of Ethernet Cables With a deeply dark background, the famous Dutch light catches the milkmaid complexion of...
View ArticleKrista Eyler: The Vocalist, Musician, and Composer Answers Four Questions
Krista Eyler Photo by Manon Halliburton Presented by Equity Bank Everything’s coming up ballads and up-tempo numbers for Krista Eyler. The ringtone on her phone plays the overture to Jesus Christ...
View ArticleFour Art Events Not to Miss in June
Kansas City Artists Coalition: Rodrigo Caraza Portal and Eager Zhang If you work with words, sometimes they’re a blur on the page. But in the hands of artist Eager Zhang, words take on heightened...
View ArticleFive Questions with Jun Iwasaki, Kansas City Symphony’s New Concertmaster
The Kansas City Symphony will have a new concertmaster come September 2022 when Jun Iwasaki joins the orchestra. “Not only am I the first violinist, but as far as the working role goes the most...
View ArticleThe Cellist Trilla Ray-Carter Answers Four Questions
Trilla Ray-Carter. Photo by Richard Fabac We don’t think of musical instruments as having ancestors, but they do. The piano wouldn’t be here today without its forebear, the harpsichord. Ancient harps...
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