KCUR + NPR Arts

Add some holiday cheer to your regular classical listening with our special fall & winter holiday programming. From Thanksgiving and Hanukkah to Christmas and New Year's Eve, enjoy music fit for any and every celebration this season.

Renowned soprano and arts advocate Renée Fleming speaks with Classical KC about her upcoming Harriman-Jewell Series performance in Kansas City, blurring musical lines, and the meaningful mind-body connection that studying the arts can create.

The Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts allows unvaccinated audience members to bring in a negative PCR test within 72 hours of a performance. Now, two of the resident companies are following suit — for unvaccinated children under 12.

Iconic jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter has completed a long-held dream, an opera based on the mythic Greek character Iphigenia, with help from singer and bassist Esperanza Spalding.

Pianist Isata and cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason are British sibling classical virtuosos. Still in their twenties, the star soloists have just released their first joint album.

This weekend, Lyric Opera of Kansas City celebrates opera's greatest moments in the movies with "Lyric Opera Goes to Hollywood." Hear our conversation with two of the featured vocalists on this weekend's concerts — soprano Talise Trevigne and tenor Limmie Pulliam — as they preview some of their favorite moments from the program.

Darryl Chamberlain has a vision for improving Kansas City’s urban core that has led to national acclaim — and kept him on the lookout for second-hand instruments since 2007.

Boston-based radio producer Brian Bell remembers Bernard Haitink, and the meticulous approach to music that defined one of the finest conductors of the past half-century.

For World Opera Day, watch scenes that will make you fall in love with the art form — from a crazy day at Mozart's diner to a trippy trip to China with Richard Nixon.

Chinese-American composer Huang Ruo has teamed up with the Del Sol Quartet and vocal ensemble Volti to explore the struggles of Chinese immigrants detained at Angel Island in the early 1900s.

The Dutch conductor Bernard Haitink had a six-decade career leading major orchestras across Europe, the U.S. and the U.K. He was hailed as a musician's musician, prizing the art well above glamor.

Seattle percussionist and composer Bonnie Whiting speaks to the importance of independence and the close bond between voice and percussion.