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Verdi's 'Nabucco Overture,' Janáček's 'Fiddler's Child' and Mahler's Ninth

Michael Stern and the Kansas City receive an ovation inside Helzberg Hall at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, May 2024
Eric T. Williams
Michael Stern and the Kansas City receive an ovation inside Helzberg Hall at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, May 2024

This week we'll hear Kansas City Symphony perform Giuseppi Verdi's Overture to his opera "Nabucco" and Leoš Janáček's haunting work "The Fiddler's Child." The program closes with Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 9, the last symphony that he completed.

An agreement with the Kansas City Symphony allows us to share audio for this program up to four weeks after the program's original air date. You can listen to currently available episodes here.

Host

Dan Margolies

Program

Overture to "Nabucco"
by Giuseppi Verdi
Michael Stern, conductor
Live performance, October 2015

The Fiddler's Child
by Leoš Janáček
Michael Stern, conductor
Live performance, February 2020

Symphony No. 9
by Gustav Mahler
Michael Stern, conductor
Live performance, January 2014

Dan Margolies is a former co-host, The Kansas City Symphony on Classical KC
Sam Wisman is a senior producer for 91.9 Classical KC and a backup announcer for KCUR 89.3