Kansas City Symphony

The orchestra's 2021-22 lineup, which begins Sept. 24 before full audiences in Helzberg Hall, features classical favorites and world premieres and commissions.

The Symphony on Tuesday announced three in-person concerts at Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in May and June.

From producers to choristers, a number of classical artists with Kansas City connections were nominated for the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards. During the virtual "Grammy Award Premiere Ceremony," one took home an individual award.

The Kansas City Symphony is moving across the street from its current home in the Vitagraph Building and will consolidate its operations — administrative, musical and creative.

Special guest Elena Lence Talley, Principal Music Librarian with the Kansas City Symphony, offers her unique perspective on some of her favorite works and also shares what elements of her job keep her up at night. We'll hear performances of Brahms, Stravinsky and Mozart featuring piano soloist Emanuel Ax.

Organist Jan Kraybill selects works that showcase the organ in different roles, including music by Saint-Saëns, Gounod and Guilmant. We'll also be joined by Josh Jones, principal percussionist with the Kansas City Symphony, who will play Vivaldi on marimba with Jan on harpsichord. Plus, we'll hear Yo-Yo Ma in "Three Meditations" from Leonard Bernstein's Mass.

No composer wrote more effectively or beautifully for strings than Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. We’ll hear his beloved Serenade for Strings, Op. 48 in a terrific recording that will be new to most of you and truly captures the spirit of the music. We also feature two other excellent Tchaikovsky string works, one of which is guaranteed to surprise you — in a good way.

The orchestra is gearing up for limited, in-person concerts in the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts starting January 17 after almost a year away from an indoor stage.

The coronavirus has Kansas City Symphony musicians mostly playing their instruments at home these days — and creating music for online audiences.

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.

How a national heritage group is preserving historical sites in Kansas and Missouri, a preview of the third season of a Kansas News Service podcast, and the return of a dedicated classical music station to Kansas City's radio dial.

KCUR officially launches 91.9 Classical KC today, providing the region with 24 hours of classical music programming each day.