Articles by Hilary Stroh

The composer's powerful When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd anchored a thought-provoking program led by Michael Stern.

Pianist Ray Ushikubo turns violinist in his star turn with the Kansas City Symphony and Thomas Wilkins. 

“Here's Johnny!” Paul Moravec’s opera, based on Stanley Kubrick's film of Stephen King's novel, proves gripping in Eric Simonson's production. 

Matthias Pintscher revels in Scriabin's Poem of Ecstasy, once described as a “bath of ice, cocaine and rainbows”, while George Li plays Ravel. 

Devon Carney's Cinderella is fast-moving and busy, with the stepsisters cavorting across the stage as the epitome of pantomime dames

Maria Ioudenitch joins the Symphony for Samuel Barber's popular Violin Concerto. 

An engaging and emotionally authentic rendition of the 19th-century classic features Kaleena Burks in the title role.

This year's winner in the Piano Category of the George Enescu International Competition opens up about the challenges of being in the spotlight and what now lies ahead of her.

A well-sung, traditional production of Carmen opens the season for the Lyric Opera of Kansas City.

Gil Shaham is the outstanding soloist in Saint-Saëns' Third Violin Concerto as a new season gets under way. 

Beilman plays the world premiere of Chris Rogerson’s Violin Concerto no. 1 “The Little Prince” with the Kansas City Symphony under Gemma New.

Septime Webre's irrepressible reinvention of Dorothy, Kansas and Oz is back at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts.

Ryan McAdams conducts Tosca at the Kansas City Lyric Opera in a production by a famous former Tosca, Carol Vaness. 

We spoke to Hanna Arie-Gaifman, Director Emeritus of the Tisch Center, New York, about the richly layered backstory involving generations of Bachs and Mendelssohns and Itzigs, and how this will be explored in the upcoming festival.

A refined but unromantic rendition of Brahms' Violin Concerto by Midori following compelling account of Anna Clyne's This Midnight Hour and Debussy's La Mer. 

Twilight of a Tech God: The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs at the Lyric Opera of Kansas City.

Liang Fu impresses as a regal and macabre, majestic and creepy Dracula in Michael Pink's ballet.

Tchaikovsky Gold Medallist Zlatamoir Fung also makes his Kansas City debut playing the Rococo Variations. 

Devon Carney’s wittily choreographed Nutcracker returns to charm the Kauffman stage. 

Goosby's decisive Bruch strikes the right tone in a programme which includes the world premiere – of sorts – of Stuart Murray Turnbull's Odyssey.