New Symphony CD
Under the direction of Music Director Michael Stern, the Symphony performs music inspired by Shakespeare's The Tempestcomposed
by Sir Arthur Sullivan and Jean Sibelius. The CD is available at area Barnes & Nobles stores or online at referencerecordings.com.
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Free Hard Hat Concert - Jan. 17 Members of the Kansas City Symphony will perform a free chamber music concert at the offices of JE Dunn Construction at 17th and Baltimore. Learn more about the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts and hear some of the great masterworks of the 20th century and beyond. Space is limited, tickets are required.
Stern Conducts Mahler - Jan. 23-24 Gustav Mahler famously said, "A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything." In his First Symphony, which boasts folk tunes, sounds of nature and funeral marches, Mahler set out to show just what he meant. Brilliant young pianist Kuok-Wai Lio joins the Symphony for Mendelssohn's thrilling Piano Concerto No. 2.
Sandi Patty's Broadway - Jan. 30 Sandi Patty's Broadway revue features some of the most memorable songs from classic musicals such as West Side Story, My Fair Lady, The Phantom of the Opera and many others!
FAMILY CONCERT: Peter and the Wolf - Feb. 7-8 The Kansas City Symphony performs live with the new Academy Award winning animated film of Prokofiev's classic tale. This unique combination of film and live music brings the story to life as never before.
Valentine's Weekend: Beethoven & Mendelssohn - Feb. 13-15 Audience favorite Nicholas McGegan returns Valentine's Weekend for a spectacular program of orchestral and vocal highlights from Beethoven's only opera (Fidelio, first known as Leonore), followed by Mendelssohn's stirring Symphony-Cantata Lobgesang (Hymn of Praise).
