Kansas City Musical Club
organized to stimulate, encourage, and acquire a broader knowledge of music and musical literature
PROGRAMS -- October 2024 through May 2025

Monday, October 7, 2024 -- 12:00pm, Asbury UMC, Prairie Village, KS

The Goldenberg Duo
Susan Goldenberg*, violin
William Goldenberg, piano
 
Norse Legend -- Frank Bridge

Rondino, op. 81, no. 2 – Jean Sibelius

Sonata No. 1 in F Major Op. 8  -- Edvard Grieg

Notturno in G Minor --  Fanny Mendelssohn

Lieder ohne Worte (Songs Without Words) -- Felix Mendelssohn

op. 85, no. 3, presto in E Flat Major

Berceuse, op. 40, no. 2 -- Amy Marcy Cheney Beach

Liebeslied  "Love's Sorrow" and “Miniature Viennese March” -- Fritz Kreisler

Après un rêve (After a Dream) -- Gabriel Fauré

Ballet from Petite Suite -- Claude Debussy

Encore

"What the World Needs Now is Love" -- Hal David & Burt Bacharach

 
Monday, November 4, 2024 -- 12:00pm, Asbury UMC, Prairie Village, KS

Opera and Jazz from the UMKC Conservatory

Aptes un reve –- Gabriel Faure

Le Colibri -- Ernest Chausson

L'heure exquise –- Reynaldo Hahn

A Charm of Lullabies –- Benjamin Britten

1. A Cradle Song

2. The Highland Balou

3. Sepestia's Lullaby

4. A Charm

5. The Nurse's Song

"Nacquia ll'affono...Non piu mest" from the opera La Cenerentola (Cinderella) –- Giaocchino Rossini

Gwendolyn Delaney***, mezzo soprano
Mary Gossell, piano

Out of Nowhere – Johnny Green

Bluesette – Toots Thielemans

Zigaboogaloo – Nicholas Payton

UMKC Conservatory's Jazz Quintet
Henry Scamurra, alto sax
Loren Broaddus, horn 
Peter Grebenyuk, guitar
Sebastian Arias, electric bass
Levi Birks, drums
Monday, December 2, 2024 -- 12:00pm, Asbury UMC, Prairie Village, KS

Music of Frédéric Chopin
Matthew Liu, piano

Third Ballade in A Flat Major, Op. 47

Etude in A Minor, Op. 10, No. 2

Nocturne in C Minor, Op. 48

Waltz in E Flat Major

Ballade in F Major/A Minor, Op. 38

Selections from the Preludes, Op. 28

Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise

Encore: -- J.S. Bach

An Interlude:  “Infant Dear” -- Sanna Cass**
Grace Ann Mott***, soprano
John Schaefer*, piano 

Monday, February 3, 2025 -- 12:00pm, Asbury UMC, Prairie Village, KS

Park University's International Center for Music
 
Suite No. 6 BWV 1012 -- J. S. Bach
Prelude, Allemand
Iana Korzukhina, viola
(Masters in Music Performance)

Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47 -- Jean Sibelius
I Allegro moderato
Yuren Zhang, violin
(Graduate Certificate in Music Performance)
Lolita Lisovskaya-Sayevich*
Director of Collaborative Piano

Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104, B. 191 -- Dvořák
I Allegro
Nikita Korzukhin, cello
(Masters in Music Performance)
Lolita Lisovskaya-Sayevich*

Monday, March 3, 2025 -- 12:00pm, Asbury UMC, Prairie Village, KS

Aimer, C’est Agir (To Love, is to Act) -- Nicole Chamberlain

Four New England Poems -- Anthony Holland
I. Henry David Thoreau "Walden"
II. Ralph Waldo Emerson "Nature"


Stillness -- Robert Paterson

Vertigo -- Etienne Houben
Silver Bow Sound
Leslie Hisman, flute and Abby Foehrkolb, percussion

 
Sea Pictures, Op. 37 -- Sir Edward Elgar
Sea Slumber Song -- Roden Noel
In Haven (Capri) -- Caroline Alice Elgar
Sabbath Morning at Sea -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Where Corals Lie -- Richard Garnett
The Swimmer -- Adam Lindsay Gordon

Liz Cass, mezzo soprano
Karen White, piano 

Monday, April 7, 2025 -- 12:00pm, Asbury UMC, Prairie Village, KS

Annual Business Meeting of Kansas City Musical Club
Election of Officers for 2025-26 Year 

Poetry readings for National Poetry Month
Dr. Marie Asner**

Faded Leaves Song Cycle -- Lowe Finney (in attendance)

A letter from Sullivan Ballou -- John Kander
Stacey Stofferahn Uthe, soprano
Lamar Sims, piano
 
Sonata for Four Hands, FP8 -- Francis Poulenc
 
Sonata in D for Four Hands, KV 381 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 
Slavonic Dance in F major Op. 46, no 4 -- Antonín Dvořák

Fantasy on the Wizard of Oz -- William Hirtz
 88squared
Jeffrey Savage and Karen Savage, duo pianists

Monday, May 5, 2025 -- 12:00pm, Asbury UMC, Prairie Village, KS

Installation of 2025-26 Club Officers and Board Members

Presentation of  KCMC Annual Award
to
Paul Horsley*
Performing Arts Editor
The Independent, Kansas City
 
Barcarolle in F-sharp major, Op.60 -- Frederic Chopin
I. “Noctuelles” (Nocturnes)
 II. “Oiseaux tristes” (Sad Birds)
 III. “Une barque sur l'océan” (A Boat on the Ocean)
 IV. “Alborada del gracioso” (Morning Song of the Jester)
 V. “La vallée des cloches” (The Valley of Bells)
 
Three Mazurkas, Op.59 – Frederic Chopin
I. Mazurka in A minor
III. Mazurka in F-sharp minor
II. Mazurka in A-flat major
 
Miroirs (Mirrors) -- Maurice Ravel
 
The March from the "Love for Three Oranges" -- Sergei Prokofiev
 
Ilya Shmukler***, piano
 

*KC Musical Club Award Winner
**Active member of KC Musical Club
*** KC Musical Club Scholarship Winner

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