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Saint-Saëns' First Cello Concerto and Strauss

Name: Saint-Saëns' First Cello Concerto and Strauss
Start: 2026-03-15T14:00:00
Location: Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts

Kansas City Symphony

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Embark on an epic journey with Richard Strauss’s tone poem Also sprach Zarathustra, featuring one of the best-known openings in all of classical music thanks to its use at the beginning of the film “2001: A Space Odyssey.” This iconic piece, based on Friedrich Nietzsche’s novel, charts the philosophical journey of the title character and progresses through longing, joy and passion, with songs of the grave, the dance and the night along the way. T...

Program

Kaija Saariaho - Du cristal

Richard Strauss - Also sprach Zarathustra

Composer

Camille Saint-Saëns - Cello Concerto No. 1

Composer

Participants

Santiago Cañón-Valencia

Cello

Samuel Lee

Conductor

Kansas City Symphony

Producer

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3 dates (13 Mar - 15 Mar)

Mar

Fri

8:00 pm

Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts

Kansas City, MO, United States

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Mar

Sat

8:00 pm

Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts

Kansas City, MO, United States

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Mar

Sun

2:00 pm

Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts

Kansas City, MO, United States

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