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Chamber Orchestra

Dates: Wed., Dec. 9 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: James C. Olson Performing Arts Center, White Recital Hall, 4949 Cherry St., Kansas City, Mo.

Conducted by Robert Olson featuring guest artist Benjamin Beilman, violin....

Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Music & Dance

Conservatory Wind Ensemble

Dates: Fri., Dec. 11 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: James C. Olson Performing Arts Center, White Recital Hall, 4949 Cherry St., Kansas City, Mo.

An Ensemble Series conducted by Joseph Parisi. ...

Admission: $8 adults, $6 seniors.
Type: Music & Dance

Conservatory Wind Symphony

Dates: Thu., Dec. 10 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: James C. Olson Performing Arts Center, White Recital Hall, 4949 Cherry St., Kansas City, Mo.

Ensemble Series...

Admission: $8 general, $6 seniors.
Type: Music & Dance

Academy Honors Recital

Dates: Sun., Dec. 13 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: Grant Recital Hall, 5227 Holmes, Kansas City, Mo.

Outstanding Community Music and Dance Academy students, nominated by their instructors, perform in the Fall 2009 Honors Recital....

Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Music & Dance

Thanksgiving with The Schwag

Dates: Nov. 25 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway Blvd., Kansas City, Mo.

The Historic Uptown Theater Complex has four distinct rooms to provide the ultimate setting for Weddings, Holiday Parties, Corporate Events, Fundraisers, Political Events, Banquets, Seminars, Trade Shows and, of course, Concerts....

Type: Concerts,Music & Dance

Black Friday with Black Knights

Dates: Nov. 26 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway Blvd., Kansas City, Mo.

The Historic Uptown Theater Complex has four distinct rooms to provide the ultimate setting for Weddings, Holiday Parties, Corporate Events, Fundraisers, Political Events, Banquets, Seminars, Trade Shows and, of course, Concerts....

Admission: $45
Type: Concerts,Music & Dance

Swell Season

Dates: Nov. 30 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway Blvd., Kansas City, Mo.

The Historic Uptown Theater Complex has four distinct rooms to provide the ultimate setting for Weddings, Holiday Parties, Corporate Events, Fundraisers, Political Events, Banquets, Seminars, Trade Shows and, of course, Concerts....

Admission: $20
Type: Concerts,Music & Dance

Jim Norton

Dates: Sat., Dec. 12 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway Blvd., Kansas City, Mo.

The Historic Uptown Theater Complex has four distinct rooms to provide the ultimate setting for Weddings, Holiday Parties, Corporate Events, Fundraisers, Political Events, Banquets, Seminars, Trade Shows and, of course, Concerts....

Admission: $25
Type: Concerts,Music & Dance

Antonio Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons"

Dates: Tue., Dec. 8 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: Unity Temple on the Plaza, 707 W. 47th St., Kansas City, Mo.

The KCCO will additionally offer humorous readings of the little-known poems prior to each "season," which most scholars believe were written by Vivaldi himself, describing the musical moments depicted and demonstrating how and when they appear in t...

Admission: General $29/22 Seniors $26/19 Students $10/5
Type: Music & Dance,Special Events

Fall Opera: Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel

Dates: Nov. 19-22 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: White Recital Hall, James C. Olson Performing Arts Center, 4949 Cherry St., Kansas City, Mo.

UMKC Opera Theatre performs Humperdinck's magical work set in the Missouri Ozarks with the UMKC Dance Division and a children's chorus from the Community Music and Dance Academy. Sung in German. ...

Admission: $12, $10 seniors, UMKC faculty, staff, and all students free with UMKC or student ID.
Type: Music & Dance

Yifan Wu, cello

Dates: Mon., Nov. 30 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: Grant Recital Hall, 5227 Holmes St., Kansas City, Mo.

Junior Recital...

Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Music & Dance

Live Music

Dates: Every Thu.-Sat. | Location: Crown Center Area | Venue: Benton Steak & Chop House, One E. Pershing Rd., Kansas City, Mo.

Stephanie Laws is the featured vocalist every Thursday through Saturday. ...

Admission: FREE
Type: Music & Dance

Musical Fun for Kids: Jim Cosgrove & Mr. Stinky Feet

Dates: Sat., Dec. 5 | Location: Crown Center Area | Venue: Crown Center, 2450 Grand Blvd., Kansas City, Mo.

Enjoy holiday music for kids and families on three Saturdays in December....

Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Holiday Activities,Music & Dance

Michael Lasser & Company: Music of World War I

Dates: Nov. 28 | Location: Crown Center Area | Venue: National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial, J. C. Nichols Auditorium, 100 W 26th St., Kansas City, Mo.

Michael Lasser, along with performers Cindy Miller and Alan Jones, will present a lively concert of popular songs from World War I. Featuring patriotic, sentimental, and martial music of the period. Lasser, a Peabody Award-winning lecturer on Americ...

Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Music & Dance

Bach Aria Soloists Holiday Concert

Dates: Sat., Dec. 12 | Location: Crown Center Area | Venue: St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 4041 Main St., Kansas City, Mo.

Rebecca Lloyd, soprano; David Adams, tenor; Meredith Barreth, alto; Joshua Lawlor, baritone; Suh Lane, violin; Elisa Bickers, organ; Sascha Groschang, cello Rejoice in the season with Bach's marvelous Cantata 140 "Wachet auf!" and other great fav...

Admission: $25
Type: Holiday Activities,Music & Dance

Musical Fun for Kids: The Doo-Dads

Dates: Sat., Dec. 12 | Location: Crown Center Area | Venue: Crown Center, 2450 Grand Blvd., Kansas City, Mo.

Enjoy holiday music for kids and families on three Saturdays in December....

Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Holiday Activities,Music & Dance

Musical Fun for Kids: Dino O'Dell and the Veloci-Rappers

Dates: Sat., Dec. 19 | Location: Crown Center Area | Venue: Crown Center, 2450 Grand Blvd., Kansas City, Mo.

Enjoy holiday music for kids and families on three Saturdays in December....

Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Holiday Activities,Music & Dance

Kansas City Symphony presents Stern Conducts Sibelius

Dates: Nov. 20-23 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: Lyric Theatre, 1029 Central St., Kansas City, Mo., Fri.-Sat.; Johnson County Community College, Yardley Hall, College Blvd. & Quivira Rd., Overland Park, Kan., Sun.

Two major patriotic works surround an exciting world premiere. Avner Dorman's new piano concerto is preceded by Béla Bartók's homage to a great Hungarian patriot, the revolutionary Lajos Kossuth, who led an attempted revolution against Austria in 18...

Type: Music & Dance

Harriman-Jewell Series presents Parthenia

Dates: Sat., Dec. 19 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: Folly Theater, 12th & Central Sts., Kansas City, Mo.

Parthenia, consort of viols, is joined by the accomplished soprano Julianne Baird for As It Fell on a Holie Eve, a holiday collection of works by William Byrd, Anthony Holborne, and others....

Admission: $20, $25, $40, $55, $70
Type: Holiday Activities,Music & Dance

Kansas City Symphony presents "How the Symphony Saved Christmas"

Dates: Sun., Dec. 12 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: Lyric Theatre, 1020 Central St., Kansas City, Mo.

This all-new Symphony holiday concert captures the wonder and excitement of Christmas morning. Help Santa bring the spirit of the season to Kansas City through story and song. Clap and laugh, sing and dance your way through the yuletide's best-loved...

Type: Holiday Activities,Music & Dance

Harriman-Jewell Series presents Boris Giltburg, pianist

Dates: Thu., Dec. 10 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: Folly Theater, 12th & Central Sts., Kansas City, Mo.

Born in 1984 in Moscow to a family of piano teachers, Giltburg was listed by BBC Music Magazine as one of -Tomorrow's Greats: the pianists to watch - in August 2008....

Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Music & Dance

Kansas City Ballet Presents "The Nutcracker"

Dates: Dec. 16-20, 22-24, 26-27 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: Music Hall, 301 W 13th St., Kansas City, Mo.

Holiday magic sparkles as the curtain goes up for Kansas City Ballet's enchanting presentation of "The Nutcracker" with the music of Tchaikovsky accompanied by live orchestra. Featuring elaborate scenery, stunning choreography and vibrant costumes, ...

Admission: $25-$80
Type: Holiday Activities,Major Events,Music & Dance,Theatre

Kansas City Symphony presents "Handel's Messiah"

Dates: Sat., Nov. 28 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: Community of Christ Auditorium, 1001 W Walnut St., Independence, Mo.

This mosaic of the scriptures remains Handel's most famous work and is one of the most triumphant choral pieces ever written! Warm your holiday season with an enduring favorite, Handel's Messiah, performed by the Kansas City Symphony and Chorus, alo...

Admission: $10 and up
Type: Music & Dance

Kansas City Symphony presents "A Tchaikovsky Holiday"

Dates: Fri., Dec. 4 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: Visitation Church, 5141 Main St., Kansas City, Mo.

Christmas in the Czech Republic is contagious and steeped in tradition, from cookies and cakes to caroling and Christmas trees. Our Chamber Players have captured this Old World enchantment in an intimate holiday program featuring "Saint Wenceslas," ...

Admission: Adults $20, Youth $10
Type: Music & Dance

Friends of Chamber Music presents The Tallis Scholars

Dates: Thu., Dec. 10 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: The Cathedral of Immaculate Conception, 416 West 12th St., Kansas City, Mo.

What does it mean to have more than 50 award-winning recordings, exist without rival in the glorious sound of Renaissance polyphony, and be under the direction of Oxford-educated Peter Phillips? Perfection! Widely known as the finest interpreters of...

Admission: $35 adults, free for students 18 and under
Type: Music & Dance

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