by Teresa Griffith | Dec 21, 2020 | 2020-2021 Season
While we are not able to hold our annual holiday concert this year, you can still enjoy music of the season played by Kansas City Civic Orchestra members of the strings, brass, and woodwinds sections! Original arrangements of favorite holiday tunes can be yours to...
by Teresa Griffith | Nov 10, 2020 | 2020-2021 Season, Senior Outreach
Appropriately distanced outreach programs continue! Thanks to some days of unseasonably nice weather this fall, our senior outreach team has been able to continue offering limited performances to senior living facilities! Although the format is different – sometimes a...
by Teresa Griffith | Oct 26, 2020 | 2020-2021 Season, Orchestra News
KCCO recently lost a friend and long-time supporter of the orchestra, Carl James. Carl Ray James, 92, of Kansas City, passed away peacefully in his sleep on October 12, 2020.Carl was born on July 3, 1928 to Glendon Otis and Martha Anna (Stone) James in Kansas City,...
by Teresa Griffith | Aug 26, 2020 | 2020-2021 Season, Musician Spotlight
Debbie Allen is principal clarinet and woodwind section leader for the Kansas City Civic Orchestra. She is a music educator with experience teaching at all grade levels in vocal and instrumental music. Debbie also enjoys creating original music for school bands and...
by Teresa Griffith | Jun 9, 2020 | 2019-2020 Season, Outreach Events, Senior Outreach
On Monday, June 1st, outreach coordinator Jennifer Mitchell shared her talents with residents of Jackson Creek Memory Care (performing from her own living room). Later that day she performed outside for residents of Hidden Lake Care Center and TWICE for residents at...
by Teresa Griffith | Jun 1, 2020 | 2022-2023 Season, News, Outreach Events, Upcoming
An expansion of our outreach efforts initiated by violinist Jennifer Mitchell, “Civic in the City” is a series of recitals prepared and performed in various neighborhoods around the metro area. Debbie Allen, KCCO principal clarinetist, began the program with a series...
by Teresa Griffith | Apr 15, 2020 | 2019-2020 Season, Orchestra News
April 15, 2020 Dear Kansas City Civic Orchestra Patrons, We are living in strange times, to say the least. Never before in our nearly 63 seasons has the Civic Orchestra had to cancel part of a concert season, but with great reluctance – and a strong sense of...
by Teresa Griffith | Mar 9, 2020 | 2019-2020 Season
Lauded for being “positively mesmerizing at the piano” by The Times-Tribune, Korean-American pianist Minju Choi has performed throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia as a recitalist, soloist, and chamber musician. She has appeared as a soloist with the...
by Teresa Griffith | Jan 21, 2020 | 2019-2020 Season, Upcoming
Meet Theodore “Teddy” Ohly, winner of this year’s Carol Chatelain Young Artist Concerto Competition. Teddy, 13, began studying violin at age five. He took Skype lessons with Julian Meyer, his mother’s teacher from Philadelphia, for three years....
by Teresa Griffith | Jan 13, 2020 | 2019-2020 Season
Our first concert of 2020 features guest conductor Boris Vayner. Originally from Novosibirsk, Russia, Vayner enjoys a diverse career in music as a violist, educator, and conductor. Russian Winter Saturday, February 29, 2020 Pre-concert talk at 6:45 p.m. Concert at...
