The Path of the Butterfly The butterfly was once simply an icon of transformation. But that, too, is changing. Butterflies have become canaries in the coal mines of climate change—the return of…
An Interview with Charles Bruffy Artistic Director of the Kansas City Chorale
Five-time Grammy Award-winner Charles Bruffy started out as a tenor…
Review: The Kansas City Chorale’s Artifacts: The Music of Michael McGlynn
Just as the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams evokes images…
Review: The Kansas City Symphony Performs Copland’s Appalachian Spring
If you happen to be a Francophile who also loves…
Four Art Events You Should Not Miss in April
Frida Kahlo’s Garden After a winter of seven kinds of…
Review: The Kansas City Symphony Performs Gershwin, Hanson, and Dvořák
Antonín Dvořák’s beloved Symphony No. 9 (“from the New World”) is a master class in thematic…
Four Not-to-Miss Art Events in February
Gimme Shelter The inaugural exhibit Refuge: Art at the Savoy continues at the 21c Museum…
Composer Susan Kander Answers Three Questions
Kansas City native and internationally acclaimed composer Susan Kander comes home this month for a…
Review: Winterreise with Joyce DiDonato & Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Review presented by UMB Private Wealth Management There’s an album review from the New York Times in…
Review: The Texas Tenors & The Kansas City Symphony
Review presented by UMB Private Wealth Management The fog that enveloped Kansas City on Friday night…
Back to the Future: Christmas Eve 1968
Fifty years ago, Kansas Citians lived through a tumultuous time not unlike today, with the…