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Kansas City Symphony
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The Kansas City Symphony (KCS) is an American symphony orchestra based in Kansas City, Missouri. The orchestra is a regular resident at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. The orchestra performs a 42-week season, and is also the accompanying orchestra for the Lyric Opera of Kansas City and the Kansas City Ballet. The orchestra's current music director is Matthias Pintscher, as of the 2024-2025 season. Michael Stern, the orchestra's music director from 2005 to 2024, is music director laureate of the orchestra. Since July 2019, the orchestra's current executive director is Danny Beckley. History In 1911, the first iteration of the Kansas City Symphony was formed for Carl Busch. The city's first symphony orchestra, it ceased operations at the start of World War I, as many of the musicians were sent to military service. Kansas City's second symphony orchestra was the Kansas City Philharmonic, founded in 1933 and dissolved in 1982. In the same year, businessman and philanthropist R. Crosby Kemper, Jr. and other Kansas City businessmen, including Hallmark Cards chairman and chief executive officer Donald J. Hall, Sr. and H&R Block co-founder Henry W. Bloch, provided funds for the formation of the second iteration of the Kansas City Symphony. The orchestra gave its concerts at the Lyric Theatre. William McGlaughlin was music director from 1986 to 1997. During McGlaughlin's tenure, the orchestra released its first compact disc, American Voices, in 1995. From 1999 to 2003,
top songs
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The Planets, Op. 32, H. 125: II. Venus, the Bringer of Peace
742Symphony No. 1 in One Movement, Op. 9
503I. Mars, the Bringer of War
454Introduction et rondo capriccioso in A Minor, Op. 28, R. 188
315The Planets, Op. 32, H. 125: I. Mars, the Bringer of War
296Ib. Poco adagio
287Symphony No. 7 in C Major, Op. 105
278The Perfect Fool Suite, Op. 39, H. 150
269II. Venus, the Bringer of Peace
2510IV. Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity
23albums
Holst: The Planets, Op. 32, H. 125 & The Perfect Fool Suite, Op. 39, H. 150
Barber, Sibelius & Scriabin: One Movement Symphonies
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Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 in C Minor "Organ Symphony", Introduction et rondo capriccioso in A Minor & La muse et le poète
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Adam Schoenberg: American Symphony, Finding Rothko & Picture Studies
Miraculous Metamorphoses
Brahms: Reimagined Orchestrations
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Incidental Music For Shakespeare's "The Tempest" - Sullivan, Sibelius
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Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 "Organ"
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American Voices
Holst: the Planets; The Perfect Fool
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Britten's Orchestra
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Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 in C Minor "Organ Symphony", Introduction et rondo capriccioso