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The Kansas City Symphony wrapped up its seven-month national search for a new executive director and hired Daniel Beckley, the Kansas City Business…
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Segment 1: Former Kansas Senate President Dick Bond on his time in office and Kansas politics today.For the past six decades, Dick Bond influenced over…
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A new ballet with an original score isn’t quite as rare an event as a house falling on a witch, but it is an exciting chance to shape a fresh telling of…
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Singer-songwriter Krista Eyler may be best known around Kansas City by her alias: Funky Mama. As Funky Mama, she’s released eight CDs and played at kids…
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Three Kansas City Symphony musicians recently performed their final concerts with an arts organization they've been with since its inception. Principal…
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Dennis McCurdy had a stroke on October 22, 2000. At the time, he had no idea that the stroke would cause vascular dementia; that diagnosis came nearly a…
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The 13th annual Symphony in the Flint Hills event took place on June 9 in Butler County. KMUW’s Ascha Lee files this Audio Postcard, featuring music...
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Segment 1: Proposed 3/8th-cent sales tax could expand early childhood education.In an effort to provide quality education to more of Kansas City's youth,…
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When the Kansas City Ballet performs George Balanchine's “Diamonds” for its 60th Anniversary Dance Festival next weekend, Elysa Hotchkiss will be in one…
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She's taken her craft from Barcelona to Beijing, but this weekend Joyce DiDonato will grace a stage much closer to home.Before the Grammy-winning…
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Segment 1: Prairie Village's mezzo-soprano presents music of Berlioz and Bernstein with Kansas City Symphony.Joyce DiDonato has performed on famed stages…
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Even Kansas City sports fans love the elite opera star Joyce DiDonato, who grew up in the area and graduated from Bishop Miege High School in…