From cathedral organs to carol sing-a-longs, The City Come Again is a uniquely Kansas City performance from inside Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral. Host Ian Coleman will be your guide through music and poetry for the holiday season presented by William Jewell College.

Host Frank Byrne has prepared a program of carols composed over two centuries. Music by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Morton Gould, and Benjamin Britten will remind us of the long history and musical traditions of the holiday.

What music would you like to have if marooned on a desert island? Host Frank Byrne shares some of his favorites – music by Richard Strauss and Josef Strauss, Mascagni, Chopin, and Bolcom. Get your sunscreen and dream of warmer weather as you listen to these musical masterpieces.

The violin has a musical and spiritual connection with Russian music and this show features works by Sergei Taneyev and Peter Tchaikovsky that may be new to you. They’re melodious, soulful and steeped in the Russian spirit.

Who doesn’t like a good scare once in a while, especially on Halloween? We’ll hear diverse selections from the small screen to the big screen plus some other-worldly sounds from composers such as Béla Bartók, György Ligeti, John Williams and more.

Dmitri Shostakovich was a great Russian composer and is remembered today for his powerful symphonies. But there is one musical genre in which he composed more than any other: film music. We’ll hear selections from his marvelous score for the 1955 film “The Gadfly.”

Mendelssohn’s score to “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is one of the miracles in classical music. Begun as a youthful expression of enthusiasm for the play, he later expanded it while keeping the same enthusiasm and innocence.

The acclaimed French cellist Paul Torelier was a dynamic musician and personality. Get to know this artist and listen to his recordings of a sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven and a concerto by William Walton.

Five is an odd number in math, but not at all odd in music. We have two splendid quintets – one for strings by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, performed by the Griller Quartet, and one for brass by Victor Ewald performed by the Empire Brass.

The "Hammerklavier" sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven is widely considered to be the most difficult of the thirty-two piano sonatas that he composed. It is difficult technically, athletically, and emotionally. We’ll hear an exceptional live performance of this landmark musical work.