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03/20/2020 |
Two members of the Kansas City professional musician's ensemble NAVO play the first movement
of Beethoven's 2nd Sonata for Piano and Cello in g minor, Opus 5.
Cellist: Sunnat Ibrahim. Pianist: Benjamin Dominguez.
https://www.navoarts.com/sunnat-ibrahim
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03/13/2020 |
The Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra, a chamber quintet from Colorado, was in town for
the Kansas Silent Film Festival on February 28-29. As part of the festival, they stopped by
the Kansas Public Radio live performance studio with Tracey Goessel author of the definitive biography
of silent film star Douglas Fairbanks, and Bill Shaffer, producer/director at KTWU TV. The group played excerpts
from the scores to the silent films Leap Year and Robin Hood, which were featured at this year’s festival. |
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02/27/2020 |
Violinist Tessa Lark came to play for us Friday, February 21, 2020, and to tell us about her concert with the Topeka Symphony Orchestra the next night. She was the soloist in SKY, a Bluegrass-inspired violin concerto written for her by Michael Torke. |
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02/26/2020 |
Kansas City's Opus 76 String Quartet is celebrating the 250th birthday year of Beethoven by playing this stunning and heartfelt performance of Beethoven's mysterious last string quartet, his String Quartet No 14 in c#, Op 131. Learn more at Opus76.org about their elegant yet urban endeavors to bring more classical music into Kansas Citians' lives.
https://opus76.org. |
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02/21/2020 |
Cellist Lawrence Figg and pianist Robert Pherigo came by to tell us about their free Brown Bag concert this Friday, February 21, at the Westport Center for the Arts in the Westport Presbyterian Church in KC. Listen to their agile and amazingly fresh renditions of Beethoven's Fourth Cello and Piano Sonata, 3 Short Pieces by Anton Webern, and the Debussy Cello and Piano Sonata.
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02/12/2020 |
The piano duo Anderson and Roe. Greg Anderson and Elizabeth Roe came to play a classical
version of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah, and a very hands-on performance of Astor Piazzolla's Libertango.
https://www.andersonroe.com/
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01/22/2020 |
Winston Sullivan, bass/baritone, sings the first aria from Cox and Box, a very funny one-act show by Burnand and Sullivan. KU Opera presents a double-bill Friday at 7:30 p.m./Sunday at 2:30 p.m. with Cox and Box plus the short Ralph Vaughan Williams opera Riders to the Sea.
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01/16/2020 |
Marika Bournaki, pianist, with the Schumann Arabeske in C Major, 3 Novelettes by
Francis Poulenc, and the Brahms Rhapsody in G Minor from Op 79.
http://www.marikabournaki.com/
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01/07/2020 |
Kansas City pianist Miles Swaminathan came to play Debussy, Chopin, Liszt and Norman Dello Joio
for us before his winter break ended at Olathe Northwest High School. An active sophomore at age 15
Miles is already well on his way to becoming a top concert pianist. Currently studying piano with
Professor of Piano at UMKC Conservatory of Music, Dr Robert Weirich, Miles is working on the
Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No 1. Miles Swaminathan has played at the Kauffman Center for the |
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12/19/2019 |
Kenny Broberg, who is the 2019 winner of a Bronze Medal at The XVI International
Tchaikovsky Competition as well as being the 2017 winner of the silver medal at the |
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Join Kansas Public Radio's Retro Cocktail Hour on May 9 for a concert featuring 