Kansas City Symphony

The Kansas City Symphony serves the Kansas City area with a full season of concerts and also performs with the city's Lyric Opera and Ballet. The orchestra has been heard in a popular series of audiophile releases on the Reference Recordings label under conductor Michael Stern. The Kansas City Symphony (the name does not include the word "orchestra") is one of the youngest among American big-city orchestras, having been founded in the early 1980s. An earlier Kansas City Symphony existed from 1911 to 1917 but was dissolved due to wartime shortages of personnel. It was replaced...