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Music and Dance through March 24
Mon, Mar 15, 2010
The Lyric Opera opens" Rigoletto," the classic Italian melodrama by Verdi, on Saturday night. With a cast of all-stars including three Metropolitan Opera singers, the production should be one of the finest in the Company’s history. The Harriman Jewell series also reaches a high point this weekend with the recital appearance of cellist Yo-Yo Ma in selections by Schubert, Shostakovich and Franck, along with three South American composers who should add an interesting Latin flavor to the proceedings. For fans of smaller orchestral ensembles, you have three wind symphonies performing this weekend, two of them in tandem: the Kansas City Wind Symphony and St. Louis Wind Symphony perform a joint concert on Sunday afternoon at Village Presbyterian Church, while the UMKC Wind Symphony appears at the Conservatory on Tuesday evening. Arnold Epley’s Musica Vocale gives a concert on Sunday afternoon, as does UMKC Conservatory faculty member Jane Carl, clarinetist, with several of her fellow instructors in tow.