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PREVIEW: Spring 2011 pianists and guitarists

PREVIEW: Spring 2011 pianists and guitarists

by Topher Levin

Tue, Jan 04, 2011

Have a passion for those who tickle the ivories or finger the fretboard? Check out Topher Levin's spring preview of pianists and guitarists who will appear in Kansas City over the next few months.

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PREVIEW: Kansas City theatre hits 2011 in full stride

by Victor Wishna

PREVIEW: Kansas City theatre hits 2011 in full stride

Tue, Jan 04, 2011

As the new year gets underway, here is a preview of what’s coming up on stages around town for spring 2011.

PREVIEW: 11 for ’11—Prime time for orchestras and bands

by Libby Hanssen

PREVIEW: 11 for ’11—Prime time for orchestras and bands

Tue, Jan 04, 2011

Looking for that live sonic experience that only orchestras and bands can offer? Libby Hanssen previews eleven ensemble offerings for spring 2011.

KCMetropolis film critic's best films of 2010

by Michael D. Smith

KCMetropolis film critic's best films of 2010

Tue, Jan 04, 2011

"Black Swan," "True Grit," "Social Network," "Toy Story 3," "Inception," or perhaps "Piranha 3D" or "Hot Tub Time Machine"? Did your favorite film of the year make KCM's Michael D. Smith's top 10 of 2010 list?

Articles : Local Arts News

Arts Council to host "Finding the Perfect Match"

Tue, Jan 04, 2011

The Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City is offering an opportunity to build greater diversity within the Arts Community and respective arts organizations through "Finding the Perfect Match", a board member matchmaking event. It will be held on February 15th from 5:30 to 8:30 PM at AIA, 1801 McGee, Suite 100, Kansas City, MO 64108.

Michael Stern extends contract with Kansas City Symphony

Tue, Jan 04, 2011

On the threshold of the much-anticipated inaugural season in the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, the Board of Directors of the Kansas City Symphony has announced that Music Director Michael Stern’s contract has been extended by five years, through June 2016.

Topeka Symphony announces Youth Talent Audition Winners

Tue, Jan 04, 2011

The 58th annual Youth Talent Auditions, sponsored by the Topeka Symphony and Capitol Federal, were held November 20 in White Concert Hall at Washburn University. Capitol Federal will present the awards to the winners at the Topeka Symphony Orchestra concert on January 15, 2011.

Columns : City Classics

Music and Dance through January

by Don Dagenais

Tue, Jan 04, 2011

As we move into January, several Kansas City music organizations are beginning their winter seasons. It will be a grand two weeks for audience members seeking virtuoso instrumentalists, as three great pianists, Andre Watts, Radu Lupu and Jean Yves Thibaudet, take the stage for the Kansas City Symphony, The Friends of Chamber Music and Harriman-Jewell Series, respectively, and are matched by two great string players, Joshua Bell, violin (Harriman-Jewell Series) and Alisa Weilerstein, cello (Kansas City Symphony). Fans of medieval music have a rare chance to hear the sonorous tones of Sequentia, Benjamin Bagby’s famous early music vocal ensemble, in the appropriate surroundings of Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral for The Friends of Chamber Music. Meanwhile, dance aficionados will not be disappointed as the Wylliams/Henry Contemporary Dance Company reprises its popular program from last fall, The Cypress Avenue Concert, at the Folly Theater, and Lar Lubovitch, one of today’s most celebrated modern dance choreographers, brings his inimitable ensemble to the Carlsen Center in Johnson County.

Columns : City Stage

Theatre through mid-January

by Victor Wishna

Tue, Dec 14, 2010

“Plaid Tidings” at American Heartland Theatre; “A Christmas Carol” at Kansas City Repertory Theatre; “A Very Joan Crawford Christmas” at the Unicorn Theatre; “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day – The Musical” at the Coterie Theatre. And coming in January—“Blues in the Night: The Lyrics of Johnny Mercer” at Quality Hill Playhouse; “Another American: Asking and Telling” at Kansas City Repertory Theatre.