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This week we begin a series of programs highlighting firsts by great composers. Co-hosts Michael Stern and Dan Margolies explain why it took so long for Johannes Brahms to write his first symphony, plus we'll hear masterful first concertos by Sergei Prokofiev and Dimitri Shostakovich.

This week we continue a series of programs highlighting firsts by great composers. Co-hosts Michael Stern and Dan Margolies talk about Frédéric Chopin, Ludwig van Beethoven and Robert Schumann and their maiden concerto and symphony compositions.

This week we'll listen to the Kansas City Symphony perform another trio of twos: Beethoven's Second Piano Concerto, Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto and Leonard Bernstein's Symphony No. 2, "The Age of Anxiety."

Join co-hosts Michael Stern and Dan Margolies as they explore Gustav Mahler's monumental Symphony No. 2 in C minor, known as the "Resurrection." We'll also hear the trumpet blasts and celebratory bells of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Russian Easter Overture led by guest conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto.

Michael Stern and Dan Margolies will explore music by three Russian composers in live performances by the Kansas City Symphony. We'll hear Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5, Shostakovich's Symphony No. 2 and Daniil Trifonov's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in E-flat minor with the composer as soloist.

Co-hosts Michael Stern and Dan Margolies present a diverse selection of music exploring the darkness of the world's deepest cave, the rugged beauty of the Finnish countryside, the lush possibilities of a 100-year old concerto and the power of a modern orchestral showpiece.

This week we'll hear virtuosic playing by three soloists performing five different works spanning four centuries. Augustin Hadelich, Garrick Ohlsson and Behzod Abduraimov tackle music by Haydn, Saint-Saëns, Copland, Gershwin and Thomas Adés.

How sports teams are convincing as many players as possible to get vaccinated, and why this is a risky time to be a member of news media.

Get to know seven-time Grammy winner David Frost and go behind the scenes during a recording session with Michael Stern and The Kansas City Symphony. We'll also hear music from the Symphony's brand new David Frost-produced CD of one movement symphonies by Samuel Barber, Jean Sibelius and Alexander Scriabin.

Missouri's senior senator and the representative from Kansas' 3rd congressional district talk infrastructure and the child tax credit, and we meet the principal of one of the few Black-owned architecture firms in the nation.