Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts

As Kansas City emerges from the pandemic, live music and performances are making their long-awaited return to the big stage.

The Kansas City Ballet on Friday announced the company’s 2021-2022 season – including a return this fall to the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts.

The national Broadway tour of "Hamilton" has been rescheduled to 2023 — instead of this September at the Music Hall.

The Kansas City Jazz Orchestra will kick off its new season in October with "Bird Lives."

Cellist Yo-Yo Ma joins hosts Michael Stern and Dan Margolies for an in-depth and personal conversation. We'll hear never before aired live performances from the Kansas City Symphony's archives featuring Yo-Yo Ma as soloist.

It's been a year since the Lyric Opera of Kansas City performed at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts.

Over the past year, audiences have stayed home and Kansas City’s concert venues have remained silent. But behind the scenes — one man is making sure the grand pianos will be ready when we can all gather to hear them again.

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.

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.

Through openness, advocacy, commissions and a focus on underrepresented composers, Kansas City's Mid America Freedom Band strives to play music that reflects our diverse community. Classical KC speaks with the group's Artistic Director and Conductor, plus two members of the ensemble. We'll hear music by Julius Eastman, Chen Yi, Jennifer Higdon and more.

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