Two upcoming concerts will celebrate the end of the semester at KCKCC.
The KCKCC Chamber Choir will perform the Winter Choral Concert, “Don’t Give Up,” at 7 p.m. Dec. 4 at the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed building, Community Christian Church, 4601 Main St. in Kansas City, Missouri. The church is on the Country Club Plaza.
The concert is a vocal showcase of a variety of music expressing the palette of the human condition, joy, sorrow, hope, laughter and beauty.
The concert will feature two guest artists, who both serve on the voice faculty at KCKCC, Lauren Auge, soprano, and Julia Scozzafava, mezzo-soprano. The choir will perform works by Whitacre, Pedersen, Esenvalds, Parker-Shaw, Mealor and a new commission by Michael Engelhardt and Robert T. Gibson.
The second concert is the KCKCC Jazz Showcase at The Blue Room, which is in the American Jazz Museum, 1616 E. 18th St. in Kansas City, Missouri. It is from 6:30 to 10 p.m. Dec. 13. The concert will feature the four student ensembles attending and performing at the National Conference of the Jazz Education Network in Orlando, Florida, Jan. 4-7.
The showcase will feature the Blue Devil Funk Band, Advanced Jazz Combo and two student vocal jazz ensembles – Fusion and The Standard. The event is sponsored by the KCKCC Student Chapter of the Jazz Education Network.
Both concerts are free and open to the public, but donations will be taken for the department’s upcoming travel this spring.
- Story from KCKCC