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An analysis of Harry Truman's relationship with Winston Churchill and a preview of what the Kansas City Parks and Recreation has planned for 2021.

This program of all British music features works by Benjamin Britten, Edward Elgar and an 18-year-old Arthur Sullivan, who later went on to fame as the Sullivan in Gilbert and Sullivan. Pinchas Zukerman, whom we featured recently on viola, returns as the soloist in Elgar's thrilling Violin Concerto.

Hosts Dan Margolies and Michael Stern welcome Kansas City Symphony Associate Conductor Jason Seber for a look back at his time with the orchestra before his tenure ends this summer. We'll learn what's coming up next for him and listen to performances led by Jason of Elgar's arrangement of Bach's Fantasia and Fugue in C Minor, Michael Daugherty's "Once Upon a Castle" and Johannes Brahms' Fourth Symphony.

Join co-hosts Michael Stern and Dan Margolies as they celebrate the birthdays of Edward Elgar and Richard Strauss. We'll hear Elgar's Concerto in B Minor for Violin and Orchestra featuring Pinchas Zukerman and Strauss' An Alpine Symphony.

Our June celebration continues as co-hosts Michael Stern and Dan Margolies highlight the birthdays of Robert Schumann and Edvard Grieg. We'll hear one of Schumann's earliest orchestral works, Overture, Scherzo and Finale, and Grieg's enduringly popular Piano Concerto. Topping things off, we'll listen to a June 2018 performance of Hector Berlioz's rousing Symphonie Fantastique.

This week we continue our celebration of May birthdays and May performances. We'll hear works by Mozart, Wagner and Mendelssohn. We'll also hear Erich Korngold's Symphonic Serenade in a virtual performance led by Kansas City Symphony Associate Conductor Jason Seber.

Celebrate two years of Classical KC with a Kansas City Symphony performance of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9. Hosts Michael Stern and Dan Margolies will explore the hopeful and enduring message of the work. We'll also hear Anthony McGill as soloist in Richard Danielpour's Concerto for Clarinet dedicated to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and an irreverent mash-up of Beethoven melodies by Louis Andriessen.

Classical KC celebrates the July birthdays of Leoš Janáček and Gustav Mahler. We'll hear Kansas City Symphony performances of Janáček's eerie tone poem The Fiddler's Child and Gustav Mahler's last fully completed work, his Symphony No. 9 in D Major.

What's in the wager between Kansas City's KCUR and Tampa's WUSF, the latest on the Chiefs' players and the Food Critics set you up for all-day Super Bowl Sunday eating.

Portions of the Kansas City metro have limited-to-no access to COVID-19 vaccines and more young adults are living at home now than ever before.