Michael Stern

After 19 seasons, outgoing Kansas City Symphony music director Michael Stern conducted his final concert over the weekend. Plus: One Kansas City opera company is bringing the show to residents of local retirement communities.

Violinist Susan Goldenberg and her brother, pianist William Goldenberg, have played in concert halls and nursing homes around the globe. And she's played for the Kansas City Symphony long enough to know exactly what it needs in a new music director.

Paseo Academy's choir director, Willie Thornton, says it's going to be a life-changing experience for his students, some of whom have never set foot outside of Kansas City.

The grand concert hall may not host experimental music as much as traditional performances, but musicians creating new, more avant-garde compositions are finding homes and audiences for their work.

At least seven artists with Kansas City ties were up for a Grammy nomination. Three shared in the top honor.

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It's been a decade since Michael Stern started his appointment as the fourth music director of the Kansas City Symphony.Stern's contract with the Symphony…

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