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Hosts Michael Stern and Dan Margolies continue their celebration of September birthdays with an overture and symphony by Dmitri Shostakovich and George Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F featuring Jon Kimura Parker as soloist.

This week, the Kansas City Symphony on Classical KC continues to celebrate the January birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart by showcasing his "Concerto for Piano No. 23" in a performance from Orion Weiss under the direction of the late Bramwell Tovey. You'll also hear Mozart's "Concerto No. 1 for Flute" featuring the Kansas City Symphony's principal flutist, Michael Gordon. The program will close with a recent performance of Gustav Mahler's "Symphony No. 1," which marked the orchestra's full scale return to Helzberg Hall following pandemic restrictions.

Michael Stern and Dan Margolies celebrate the November birthdays of Paul Hindemith and Benjamin Britten. We'll hear three works from Britten including the ever popular "Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra," as well as Hindemith's "Symphonic Metamorphosis" and "Les preludes" by Franz Liszt.

Co-hosts Michael Stern and Dan Margolies celebrate the birthdays of Bedřich Smetana, Maurice Ravel, Samuel Barber and Béla Bartók. We'll hear works such as Smetana's crowd-lpleasing "Overture to the Bartered Bride," Ravel's "La valse," Barber's "Essay No. 2," Bartok's "Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin" and more music that showcases the full range of the Kansas City Symphony.

Celebrate the 150th birthday of Sergei Rachmaninoff with co-hosts Michael Stern and Dan Margolies as they highlight three of his most beloved works. We'll hear Rachmaninoff's choral symphony "The Bells" featuring the Kansas City Symphony Chorus, his "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini" featuring pianist Joyce Yang, and his "Symphonic Dances."

This week, we begin a month long birthday celebration of Peter Tchaikovsky. We'll hear the Kansas City Symphony perform Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 3 and Symphony No. 5, plus Franz Joseph Haydn's "Overture to 'The Creation.'" Co-hosts Michael Stern and Dan Margolies will discuss the mindset of each composer as they wrote these works.

Our birthday celebration of Peter Tchaikovsky and Johannes Brahms continues by featuring three early works from these master composers. We'll hear Tchaikovsky's 'Romeo and Juliet' Overture-Fantasy and Symphony No. 2, plus the Serenade No. 1 from Brahms. Co-hosts Michael Stern and Dan Margolies explore how the two great composers' youthful emotions are depicted in their work.

Michael Stern and Dan Margolies celebrate the birthday of Richard Strauss and explore his musical life. We'll hear early works such as "Also Sprach Zarathustra" and "Don Juan," plus later works like the "Suite from 'Der Rosenkavalier'" and his moving "Four Last Songs."

This week, co-hosts Michael Stern and Dan Margolies celebrate the birthdays of Robert Schumann and George Walker. We'll hear Walker's "Lyric for Strings:" a moving tribute to his mother, who had been enslaved. Also, we'll hear two symphonies by Schumann and his "Konzertstück in F Major for Four Horns," featuring four members of the Kansas City Symphony horn section.