2021/2022 Classical Series SUBSCRIBE BEFORE JULY 15 BRAVO OVATION MASTERWORKS 7 CONCERTS 7 CONCERTS 14 CONCERTS LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus CLASSICAL SERIES OPENING WEEKEND! GABRIEL KAHANE Piano Concerto (world premiere, Kansas City Symphony Michael Stern, conductor MAHLER’S “TITAN” WITH KAHANE’S WORLD Sept. 24-26 Sept. 24-26 1 co-commission) Jeffrey Kahane, piano PREMIERE PIANO CONCERTO GUSTAV MAHLER Symphony No. 1, “Titan” STUART MURRAY TURNBULL Odyssey (world premiere) Michael Stern, conductor BRAHMS’ FIRST, BRUCH’S VIOLIN CONCERTO MAX BRUCH Violin Concerto No.1 Oct. 29-31 Oct. 29-31 2 Randall Goosby, violin JOHANNES BRAHMS Symphony No. 1 FLORENCE PRICE The Oak Peter Oundjian, guest conductor SCHEHERAZADE! PLUS STRAUSS RICHARD STRAUSS Burleske in D Minor Nov. 5-7 Nov. 5-7 3 Janice Carissa, piano (Almy Legacy Fund) NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade SAMUEL BARBER Essay No. 2 SCHUMANN’S “RHENISH” WITH BEETHOVEN’S Johannes Debus, guest conductor LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 4 Nov. 26-28 Nov. 26-28 4 FOURTH PIANO CONCERTO Eric Lu, piano (Almy Legacy Fund) ROBERT SCHUMANN Symphony No. 3, “Rhenish” WILLIAM GRANT STILL Poem for Orchestra SHOSTAKOVICH’S FIFTH, PLUS GERSHWIN’S Joshua Weilerstein, guest conductor GEORGE GERSHWIN Piano Concerto in F Jan. 14-16, 2022 Jan. 14-16, 2022 5 PIANO CONCERTO Jon Kimura Parker, piano DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5 RICHARD STRAUSS Tod und Verklärung (Death and Transfiguration) STRAUSS’ DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION, JOEL THOMPSON World Premiere (Kansas City Symphony co-commission) Michael Stern, conductor Jan. 28-30, 2022 Jan. 28-30, 2022 6 PROKOFIEV’S SECOND VIOLIN CONCERTO SERGEI PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No. 2 Vadim Gluzman, violin LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Leonore Overture No. 3 ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK Othello Overture PROKOFIEV’S FIFTH, WITH TCHAIKOVSKY’S Eduardo Strausser, guest conductor PIOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY Variations on a Rococo Theme Feb. 4-6, 2022 Feb. 4-6, 2022 7 ROCOCO VARIATIONS Zlatomir Fung, cello SERGEI PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 5 HENRY PURCELL/BENJAMIN BRITTEN Chacony in G Minor ELGAR’S FIRST, PLUS MOZART’S PIANO CONCERTO Michael Francis, guest conductor WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Piano Concerto No. 24 March 4-6, 2022 March 4-6, 2022 8 NO. 24 Martina Filjak, piano EDWARD ELGAR Symphony No. 1 ANNA CLYNE This Midnight Hour Michael Stern, conductor LA MER AND BRAHMS’ VIOLIN CONCERTO CLAUDE DEBUSSY La mer March 25-27, 2022 March 25-27, 2022 9 Midori, violin JOHANNES BRAHMS Violin Concerto JOAN TOWER Tambor PÉTROUCHKA, PLUS Christian Reif, guest conductor WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Clarinet Concerto April 1-3, 2022 April 1-3, 2022 10 MOZART’S CLARINET CONCERTO Raymond Santos, clarinet IGOR STRAVINSKY Pétrouchka (1947 revision) AARON COPLAND El Salón México MIRACULOUS MANDARIN WITH RACHMANINOFF’S SERGEI RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 4 Paolo Bortolameolli, guest conductor April 22-24, 2022 April 22-24, 2022 11 FOURTH PIANO CONCERTO ZOLTÁN KODÁLY Dances of Galánta Conrad Tao, piano BÉLA BARTÓK Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin
MAURICE RAVEL Mother Goose Suite Gemma New, guest conductor SAINT-SAËNS’ ORGAN SYMPHONY, WORLD CHRIS ROGERSON Violin Concerto (world premiere, Kansas City Symphony Benjamin Beilman, violin June 3-5, 2022 June 3-5, 2022 12 PREMIERE OF ROGERSON’S VIOLIN CONCERTO co-commission) CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS Symphony No. 3, “Organ” Jan Kraybill, organ LILI BOULANGER D’un matin de printemps SLEEPING BEAUTY WITH Ryan Bancroft, guest conductor JEAN SIBELIUS Violin Concerto June 17-19, 2022 June 17-19, 2022 13 SIBELIUS’ VIOLIN CONCERTO Augustin Hadelich, violin PIOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY Suite from The Sleeping Beauty GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL “Zadok the Priest,” Coronation Anthem No. 1 Michael Stern, conductor JESSIE MONTGOMERY Piano Concerto (Kansas City Symphony Awadagin Pratt, piano CLASSICAL SERIES SEASON FINALE! June 24-26, 2022 June 24-26, 2022 14 ODE TO JOY: BEETHOVEN’S NINTH co-commission) Kansas City Symphony Chorus, LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9, “Choral” Charles Bruffy, chorus director