With “Shifting Ground,” a commissioning and recording project, Kenney is approaching Baroque music as the start of something contemporary.
Hear how composer Paul Moravec and librettist Mark Campbell approached the adaptation in a new recording from Lyric Opera of Kansas City.
Brett Mitchell’s inaugural season as music director is the next chapter in the orchestra’s nearly century-long history.
Montero offers a brilliant improvised encore, in addition to a Mozart concerto, on this program that also includes a new work by Nina Shekhar.
With a new director at the helm, the organization is looking ahead to a vibrant year of performances.
Thomas is set to premiere Fire and Blue Sky, a song cycle written for him by composer Joel Thompson and poet Imani Tolliver.
