by Janet Goodman “It’s been an extremely humbling experience so far…With all the work and the amount of time it’s taking, it feels like I’m working on a Star Wars movie,” said musician/composer Brad Hoyt in the fall of 2012 while in the midst of…
Read the original article By Don Clark » September 30, 2013, 1:00 pm Concert newEar Contemporary Ensemble Shines in Season Opening Luminosity nelson-atkins-museum-logo-250wNow in its 21st season, newEar Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, Kansas City’s first and only professional new music ensemble, continues to challenge and delight…
KCM’s executive editor Kristin Shafel Omiccioli reflects on some of her favorite shows from Kansas City’s performing arts scene during the 2012–13 season. Read the Article
By Kristin Shafel Omiccioli After hitting it off as students at the UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance, Kansas City natives violinist Laurel Morgan and cellist Sascha Groschang maintained their friendship and officially formed alternative strings duo The Wires in 2009. Since then, the pair…
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Not to sound cliché, but the Kansas City girls of the unsigned band The Wires make beautiful music together. It is exciting to entertain the idea that maybe one day we could see a collaboration between Wires members Sascha Groschang (cello) and Laurel Morgan Parks…
album review: The Wires debut broad album April 16th, 2013 The lively rhythmic tales the violin and cello unfold in local group The Wires is spell-binding. Officially together since 2009, UMKC Conservatory alumni and Kansas City natives, violinist Laurel Morgan Parks and cellist Sascha Groschang…
By Sylvia Maria Gross and Monica Sandreczki Cellist Sascha Groschang and violinist Laurel Morgan Parks have been good friends since they trained together as classical musicians at UMKC’s Conservatory of Music and Dance. They perform around the region, and internationally, in symphony orchestras and chamber…
“Get the scoop on urban cinema from Shawn Edwards of Fox News 4 and iloveblackmovies.com. He’ll tell us about the 3rd Annual Black Movie Awards coming up in early January. Later in the show, we’ll be joined by the The Wires for a live in…
By Shea Conner | St. Joe Live | Saint Joseph Symphony music director Rico McNeela has been sitting on some of this music for years, even decades, without performing it in public. Now, however, he feels he has found the perfect team to play it….