Open Rehearsals

MIDDLE SCHOOL - COLLEGE

Select Kansas City Symphony dress rehearsals are open to middle school, high school, and college music students. This program offers a unique look inside the rehearsal of a professional symphony orchestra and may include a brief Q&A with the guest artist, conductor and/or Symphony musicians. Open dress rehearsals take place on Friday mornings at 10am unless otherwise noted. Please contact Stephanie Brimhall at sbrimhall@kcsymphony.org or (816) 218-2639 with questions or for more information.

Helzberg Hall | Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts
1601 Broadway, Kansas City, MO 64108

$2/person (students and chaperones)

September 15, 2017

Rachmaninoff and Capriccio Espagnol

Michael Stern, conductor

Natasha Paremski, piano

RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 3

CHRISTOPHER ROUSE Odna Zhizn

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Capriccio espagnol

October 27, 2017

DVOŘÁK’S EIGHTH WITH SHOSTAKOVICH

Michael Stern, conductor

Mayu Kishima, violin

SUK Scherzo fantastique

SHOSTAKOVICH Violin Concerto No. 1

DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 8

January 12, 2018

GELLER AND GROSSMAN PLAY MOZART PLUS SIBELIUS’ FIFTH

Michael Stern, conductor

Noah Geller, violin

Christine Grossman, viola

ESA-PEKKA SALONEN LA Variations

W.A. MOZART Sinfonia concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra

SIBELIUS Symphony No. 5

January 26, 2018

MAHLER’S SEVENTH

Michael Stern, conductor

MAHLER Symphony No. 7

February 2, 2018

BEETHOVEN’S “EROICA” WITH BERNSTEIN’S SERENADE

Michael Stern, conductor

Sharon Roffman, violin

JOHN CORIGLIANO Elegy for Orchestra

BERNSTEIN Serenade for Violin and Orchestra

BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 3, “Eroica”

February 23, 2018

BERNSTEIN, PROKOFIEV AND SCHUMANN

David Zinman, guest conductor

Stephen Waarts, violin

BERNSTEIN Symphonic Suite from On the Waterfront

PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No. 2

SCHUMANN Symphony No. 2

March 16, 2018

JOYCE DIDONATO SINGS BERNSTEIN AND BERLIOZ

Michael Stern, conductor

Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano

BERLIOZ Le corsair Overture

BERLIOZ La mort de Cléopâtre

BERNSTEIN Songs

“Greeting”

“Music I Heard with You”

“What Lips my Lips have kissed”

BERNSTEIN Symphonic Dances from West Side Story