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.”
Near the town of Montignac in southwestern France are the Lascaux Caves where intact drawings of animals adorn the walls. Those drawings date back to the Paleolithic Age – about 17,300 years, give or take.
