Prokofiev's Sixth & Barber's Violin Concerto

Name: Prokofiev's Sixth & Barber's Violin Concerto
Start: 2026-10-30T20:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-10-30T22:00:00-05:00
Location: Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts

Schedule

Fri Oct 30 2026 at 08:00 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts | Kansas City, KS

Ludovic Morlot, guest conductor
Stella Chen, violin
SOFIA GUBAIDULINA Fairytale Poem
FELIX MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto
SAMUEL BARBER Violin Concerto
SERGEI PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 6
Come and be swept up in romantic lyricism as violinist Stella Chen joins your Kansas City Symphony to perform Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto. Hear one sublime melody after another and feel the excitement of the nonstop perpetual-motion finale. Sergei Prokofiev’s Sixth Symphony is a profound work dedicated to the victims of World War II, by turns lyrical, austere, bright and unsettling. The final movement, according to the composer, reflects on “questions cast into eternity” and “wounds that cannot be healed,” and ends in a major key but with doubts unresolved.