

We welcome German guest conductor Ruth Reinhardt for her Kansas City Symphony debut in a wide-ranging program. You’ll find the lush orchestration and seeming endless supply of exquisite sounds in this fantasy totally enchanting.įriday and Saturday, February 10-11, 2023 at 8 p.m.īILLY CHILDS Saxophone Concerto (Kansas City Symphony co-commission) Once more, the sea and love form a backdrop for this program in Zemlinsky’s musical setting of Hans Christian Andersen’s folktale “The Little Mermaid.” Composed in the wake of a failed love affair, The Mermaid was Zemlinsky’s effort at therapy to move on with his life.

Tender song is juxtaposed with fierce waves of sound in a gripping drama. Drawing on his operatic expertise, Edusei leads the orchestra in the overture to Richard Wagner’s early masterpiece The Flying Dutchman, a story of redemption through love. Exceptionally busy in Europe, guest conductor Kevin John Edusei makes his way to this side of the Atlantic for his debut with the Kansas City Symphony.

Fresh from wins in three different international violin competitions, Ioudenitch will touch your heart with one gorgeous melody after another and thrill you with the concluding movement’s explosive perpetual motion. RICHARD WAGNER Overture to Der fliegende Holländerīorn in Russia but raised in Kansas City, violinist Maria Ioudenitch returns home for another superlative appearance with KCS, this time performing Samuel Barber’s lyric Violin Concerto. WAGNER’S “FLYING DUTCHMAN” AND THE BARBER VIOLIN CONCERTOįriday and Saturday, January 20-21, 2023 at 8 p.m. Join Maestro Lecce-Chong and your Kansas City Symphony for this stupendous adventure. Respighi depicts nature and cascades of water in that “other” City of Fountains before turning his attention to the centuries-old trees which so characteristically dominate the Roman landscape. Guest conductor Francesco Lecce-Chong will be your tour guide for a visit to Rome, via Respighi’s colossal Fountains of Rome and Pines of Rome. New Zealand-born violinist Geneva Lewis shares her youthful exuberance - and serious artistry - in performances sure to bring a smile to your face. Written when he was a teenager, Mozart’s Third Violin Concerto is a wonderful gem filled with some of his most irrepressibly joyous music. Bates conjures a quicksilver world out of exotic textures and tunings, taking the music from low-tech garage to hyperkinetic virtual reality. Mason Bates has carved out a reputation as an innovator and he delivers on that promise with Garages of the Valley, a trek through the imagined music of Silicon Valley’s tech geniuses in their garage development days. WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Violin Concerto No.
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Finally we get a cut off the 2023 Madd for Tadd project. We also hear new music from brilliant Kansas City saxophonist Matt Otto. We also hear from a number of up and coming jazz musicians like Javier Nero, Tina Raymond and Dave Meder. The project was in honor of his mentor Joe Morello and we hear with the legendary Dave Brubeck Quartet. We begin the 819th Episode of Neon Jazz with accomplished drummer David Whitman and music off his 2023 album Ode to Joe.
