KCUR + NPR Arts

Ongoing concerns about the coronavirus keep venues closed. Two Liberty-based opera artists, a singer and a stage director, try to embrace the situation instead of fighting it.

The National Virtual Medical Orchestra brings together health care workers and gives them a creative outlet during the pandemic.

Theater companies respond to COVID-19 with mix of small-scale live performances, outdoor events, and digital experiences.

The beloved pianist was a young lion of his generation until a hand injury forced him to rethink his relationship to music.

Even before the age of social-distancing, composer and conductor Eric Whitacre had been leading an online chorus for a decade. Choir members say the connection they foster is more important than ever.

Women rarely received credit for their creative work in Colonial America. But with a new album, one scholar is reviving the works of the women who lived and composed at the Ephrata Cloister.

July 21 marks the centennial of the birth of violinist Isaac Stern. He was not only an acclaimed musician and advocate for the arts, but a devoted teacher who was a mentor to generations of musicians.

With ongoing concerns about the coronavirus, Kansas City Ballet, Kansas City Symphony, Lyric Opera Of Kansas City, and Harriman-Jewell Series opt out of large gatherings at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts.

The iconic Italian composer, who scored The Good, the Bad and the Uglyand more than 500 other films, died Monday in Rome.

In Our Daily Breather, we ask artists to recommend ways to find calm in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis. Davóne Tines has been reconnecting with family and enjoying the ritual of making coffee.

After he was released from a juvenile detention facility, with the help of a series of teachers, Ryan Speedo Green turned his life around.

Broadcast nationwide in 1934 and praised by listeners and critics alike, a masterful symphony soon fell silent. A new recording hopes to help revive an American treasure.