Apr22

Kansas City Symphony: Holst, Haydn and Hindemith

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The Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, 1601 Broadway Blvd, Kansas City, MO 64108

[from the KC Symphony website:]

Michael Stern, conductor

Kansas City Symphony Chorus, Charles Bruffy, chorus director

Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano

Scott Hendricks, baritone

GUSTAV HOLST Walt Whitman Overture

FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN Symphony No. 96, “The Miracle”

PAUL HINDEMITH When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d

Gustav Holst’s Walt Whitman Overture evokes Mendelssohn with its shimmering strings and exuberant brass. Haydn’s “Miracle” Symphony is gracious, joyous and inventive. Paul Hindemith’s moving oratorio When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d was written to commemorate the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and is based on the poem of the same name by Walt Whitman. Mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke and baritone Scott Hendricks join the Symphony and Chorus in this eloquent music which gives powerful shape to feelings of loss and grief.

I'll be playing the Julia Irene Kauffman Casavant pipe organ on the Hindemith.