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Prokofiev’s Sixth & Barber’s Violin Concerto
Sunday, November 1 · 2 p.m. · Muriel Kauffman Theatre at Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts
- When
- Sunday, November 1 · 2 p.m.
- Where
- Muriel Kauffman Theatre at Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts1601 Broadway Blvd · Kansas City, MO · 64108
About this event
Oct. 30-Nov. 1, 2026
Helzberg Hall
Ludovic Morlot, guest conductor
Stella Chen, violin
SOFIA GUBAIDULINA Fairytale Poem
SAMUEL BARBER Violin Concerto
SERGEI PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 6
Come and be swept up in romantic lyricism as violinist Stella Chen joins your Kansas City Symphony to perform Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto. Hear one sublime melody after another and feel the excitement of the nonstop perpetual-motion finale. Sergei Prokofiev’s Sixth Symphony is a profound work dedicated to the victims of World War II, by turns lyrical, austere, bright and unsettling. The final movement, according to the composer, reflects on “questions cast into eternity” and “wounds that cannot be healed,” and ends in a major key but with doubts unresolved.
From Kansas City Symphony
Listed by DoStuff: Kansas City, MO and Vivid Seats: Kansas City, MO, gathered by the Olathe events calendar.