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WEB EXTRA: A Conversation with Michael Stern and Michael Kaiser, Part 2

As part of the 50-state tour called "Arts in Crisis," John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts President Michael Kaiser stopped in Kansas City, Missouri.

By Laura Spencer

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Kansas City, MO – Here, the Kennedy Center's Michael Kaiser talks to Kansas City Symphony Music Director Michael Stern and takes questions from the audience. In this segment, Kaiser talks about arts education, how to argue for the importance of the arts in a tough economic climate, and answers the question,"What animal would a healthy or unhealthy arts organization be?"

For more on Arts in Crisis: A Kennedy Center Initiative, check here.

Laura Spencer is staff writer/editor at the Kansas City Public Library and a former arts reporter at KCUR.
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