Grammy Award-winning saxophonist Kenny G is the top-selling instrumental musician of our time. His easy style and smooth sounds will transport you to Havana and beyond. Hear Songbird, Forever in Love, Heart and Soul, Silhouette, and My Heart Will Go On. Kenny G will captivate and carry you away. Sponsored by Country Club Bank.
On March 11, 2023, Park University’s International Center for Music (ICM) will commemorate the 20th anniversary of its founding here just outside of Kansas City. As part of the commemoration, the ICM will feature its young stars, alums and friends of its founder and artistic director, Stanislav Ioudenitch, in a special concert which promises to…
Deep in the shadows of the Colorado Rockies and miles from where anyone can hear you scream; the Overlook Hotel awaits. For its new caretakers, the Torrance family, the only thing more unnerving than their profound seclusion and solitude is the realization that they are not the hotel’s only guests. While the young son with…
Guest conductor Matthias Pintscher brings his unique insight to György Ligeti’s San Francisco Polyphony. Composed while Ligeti was living near San Francisco, the work’s melodic patterns rise out of the fog but fall back into a miasma of sound. Two marvelous works by Maurice Ravel form the heart of this program. Pianist extraordinaire George Li returns…
Founded in 1891, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra is consistently hailed as one of the greatest orchestras in the world. Performing more than 150 concerts each year, the orchestra’s talented musicians are the driving force behind the famous sound heard on best- selling recordings as well as in performance. Their concert in Kansas City will feature one…
The Kansas City Jazz Orchestra embraces the future of music through performance and education. The Future is built wholly upon that tenet, providing the stage for this art to emerge, featuring current and future legends one and all. Along with our lively big band, the great vocalists Eboni Fondren and Lee Langston will put their modern spin on great tunes from…
With landscapes spanning the towering Himalaya, arid plains and dense jungles, India is home to an unmatched diversity of wild cats. While many of the big cats are well known and thoroughly documented, photographer and filmmaker Sandesh Kadur is on a mission to highlight the country’s lesser-known felines in order to protect their future. Discover…
Take the ultimate flight of fancy with iconic creative pioneer Laurie Anderson as she channels Atchison, Kansas’ own Amelia Earhart in an expansive work for Filharmonie Brno under the baton of renowned American conductor Dennis Russell Davies. Earhart’s own radio transmissions, diaries, and news clippings are used in Anderson’s sweeping sonic score that show off…
Ruth Reinhardt, a young conductor from Germany with a master’s degree in that discipline from The Juilliard School, makes her Kansas City Symphony debut from February 10 to 12 with “programmatic imagination,” something she is known for. She’ll also introduce us to a work by little-known Polish composer and violinist Grażyna Bacewicz whose spirited Overture…
Director Bartlett Sher’s glowing production of My Fair Lady is “thrilling, glorious and better than it ever was” (The New York Times). Boasting such classic songs as I Could Have Danced All Night, The Rain in Spain, Wouldn’t It Be Loverly, and On the Street Where You Live, My Fair Lady tells the story of Eliza…
