Classics Live brings you exclusive performances from throughout the KPR listening area. Our microphones travel to the Sunflower Music Festival, the Lied Center, the Ruel Joyce Recital series, the Great Spaces Music and Arts series, as well as performances recorded in Kansas Public Radio's live studio. Performers include the Emerson String Quartet, the Zoco Duo, Ensemble Iberica, and members of the Kansas City Symphony, among others. The series producer is KPR's Cordelia Brown, with recording engineer Chuck Smith. Darrell Brogdon hosts the program. Thursdays at 7 p.m.
Upcoming Shows
Marimba Sol de Chiapas
March 7
Classica Live 178: John Currey’s group from Texas, now at UMKC, will play a medley of Zapateados. A Veracruz Dance Medley. Parachicos, La Bamba and many more tunes all played by four people on a huge marimba, with percussion effects. Check them out at MexicanMarimba.com.
The Goldenberg Duo
March 14
Classics Live 179: This charming violin and piano duo has been fascinating audiences young and old for over thirty years! It’s the sister and brother duo of Susan Goldenberg and William Goldenberg. They tell great musical stories along with their classical pieces, helping to bring the music to life.
Sunflower Music Festival Orchestra Night
March 21
Classics Live 180: Andre Raphel directs Three Spirituals for Orchestra by Adolphus Hailstork. Other Black American composers featured are George Walker, Jessie Montgomery, and William Grant Still, including Still’s First Symphony.
The Lyric Arts Trio
March 28
Classics Live 181: Some of Kansas City’s finest musicians – Sarah Tannehill Anderson, soprano, clarinettist Elena Lence Talley with pianist Dan Velicer – with modern music set to poetry by William Shakespeare and Emily Dickinson. Also local composer Brian J Nelson with good Kansas music called Windswept Glory.
The Capriole Duo Plus One
April 4
Classics Live 182: The flute and piano duo Capriole play chamber music by Otar Taktakishvili, Aaron Copland, and then welcome cellist Sally Dorer to sit in for Clara Schumann’s Opus 17. Join these three amazing women for lively music from a recent Ruel Joyce Recital at JCCC.
The St Petersburg String Quartet
April 11
Classics Live 183: Fresh from a European tour, The St Petersburg Quartet brings us a Ruel Joyce Recital of Russian greats: Dmitri Shostakovich’s Eleventh Quartet and the First Quartet of Alexander Borodin.
Sunflower Music Festival’s Concertmaster and Friends
April 18
Classics Live 184: This chamber music night begins with Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Blues Forms for Solo Violin, played by Jesse Thompson. Then an oboe sextet buzzes with Antonio Pasculli’s honeybee version of Flight of the Bumblebee. Before the concluding Piano Trio in D Minor by Anton Arensky.
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These Goldenberg siblings grew up playing together. They've been fascinating Kansas City audiences for over 30 years with their violin and piano concerts full of colorful stories about the music and the composers.
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John Currey's lively group from UMKC gave a Ruel Joyce Recital recently.
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with Kansas City musicians Lamar Sims, piano, with cellist Sascha Groschang.
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Classics Live 176: Chamber music by Mozart, Prokofiev, and Joseph Bologne Chevalier de Saint-GeorgesChamber music night from the summer of 2022 in Topeka
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KU's flute professor Daniel Velasco accompanied by pianist Ellen Sommer bring us a colorful bouquet of chamber music from the Andes region.
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From the Sunflower Music Festival in Topeka, recorded by KPR.
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Besides three masterworks by Mozart, Andre Raphel directs the chamber orchestra of the 2022 Sunflower Music Festival in Topeka through a stunning work by George Walker: Lyric for Strings.
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Classics Live captured this Ruel Joyce Recital at Johnson County Community College's Midwest Trust Center for the Performing Arts.
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