Category: Music and Dance Reviews

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November 10, 2018

Much Rejoicing: Soweto Gospel Choir Honors Nelson Mandela in Kansas

With the spontaneity of a spirit moved, the Soweto Gospel Choir honored the centenary of Nelson Mandela with songs of hope and resistance, songs born..
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November 4, 2018

Lyric Opera of Kansas City’s Traditional “Madama Butterfly” Transforms as Opera of Our Time

It’s been six years since Lyric Opera of Kansas City last staged Giacomo Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly,” its 10th production of the 1904 opera in the..
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October 27, 2018

Playful and Powerful, Kansas City Symphony’s George Gershwin Concert is a Party, featuring Patti Austin and Kenny Broberg

If you were lucky enough invite George Gershwin to your party, you had better have a piano. For hours, he’d delight himself, and to large..
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October 15, 2018

Kansas City Chorale Magnificent in Requiem World Premiere

No composer lightly undertakes the writing of a requiem. Alexander Kastalsky, one of the leading voices of Russian sacred music, was devastated by the results..
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October 13, 2018

Kansas City Ballet Unveils a Spectacular “Wizard” Like No Other

Kansas City Ballet’s world premiere of  “The Wizard of Oz” shows us just what can be accomplished with $1 million: A visually spectacular, elegantly choreographed,..
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