A celebration of Tchaikovsky and Haydn's 'beginning of all things'

By Dan Margolies,

Published May 3, 2023 at 3:24 PM CDT

Music director Michael Stern leads the Kansas City Symphony in a performance of Peter Tchaikovsky's "Symphony No. 3" in Helzberg Hall, May 2016

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.

An agreement with the Kansas City Symphony allows us to share audio for this program up to four weeks after the program's original air date. You can listen to currently available episodes here.

Hosts

Michael Stern
Dan Margolies

Program

Overture to "The Creation"
by Franz Joseph Haydn
Live performance, May 2011

Symphony No. 3 in D Major, Op. 29 - "Polish"
by Peter Tchaikovsky
Live performance, May 2016

Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64
by Peter Tchaikovsky
Live performance, September 2014