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Music and Dance through April 14
Mon, Apr 05, 2010
The Kansas City Symphony performs Gustav Mahler’s expansive Fourth Symphony this weekend, in addition to lighter works by Ravel and Barber, in a concert featuring guest artist Heidi Grant Murphy, an opera soprano. Local audiences don’t have all that many chances to appreciate Mahler, so here is your chance. Grant Murphy should be a sensitive interpreter. The Friends of Chamber Music brings one of today’s leading keyboard artists, Kevin Kenner, to the Folly Theater stage on Friday night. If one grand piano isn’t enough for you, then go to Yardley Hall on Saturday night to hear no fewer than five of them, in a crossover concert by The 5 Browns, an all-sibling group. Opera fans will appreciate the joint recital by Canadians Michael Schade, tenor, and Russell Braun, baritone, on Friday night, and also the chance to hear the young KC Metro Opera company in a Gilbert and Sullivan favorite, The Mikado, in three performances this weekend. Fans of the dance can enjoy City in Motion Dance Theatre’s 25th anniversary concert at the Gem Theatre on Saturday and Sunday (can it really have been a quarter century?). Early next week there are a couple of great opportunities, too, particularly on Tuesday evening when the edgy Kronos Quartet visits the Lied Center performing the music of minimalist Terry Riley and others.