Singer Patti Austin Joins Kansas City Chorale for Oct. 15 Show
Conductor Charles Bruffy and the Kansas City Chorale welcome singer Patti Austin to perform as part of the vocal organization’s opening show at the Folly..
Folly Theater Remedies the Sad State of American Popular Music
Pop music is the aural wallpaper of our life and times. From the Broadway show tunes to Top 40 hits which monopolized American listening for the first half of the 20th century, it was primarily a temporal art form.
UMKC Composition Faculty and Alumni Shine Brightly
The UMKC Conservatory’s Composition faculty and alumni shine brightly in the firmament of composers’ awards and commissions. Together they, along with their students, are changing..
Look Who’s Talking: The Real Revolution That was Rock ‘N’ Roll
Before Rock ‘n’ Roll, America’s pop music was made by teams – a songwriter, a lyricist, and an A & R (artists and repertoire) man who chose who would sing the vocal and the producer...
Charlotte Street Foundation Presents Sycamore House
Charlotte Street is pleased to host Sycamore House, a series of performances presented and curated by Kansas City composer and musician, Shawn Hansen. This May..
Rock 'n' Roll was the anthem of a seismic social shift the reverberations of which continue to shake our world. It began in the very middle of the 20th Century in post war America spearheaded by the first generation of Americans duly dubbed “teenagers.”
