Chick Corea & Béla Fleck
Sunday, April 6, 2014 | 7:00 PM
Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts | Muriel Kauffman Theatre
Whenever Chick Corea and Béla Fleck take to the stage, genres always fly fast and furious. With a combined 35 Grammy awards, Corea and Fleck expand the horizons of musical composition, blending jazz piano and bluegrass banjo into a new realm of imagination. Performing together, these two master musicians weave out duets of staggering virtuosity, creating mind-blowing, magical performances.
Chick Corea
Called “a luminary” by the New York Times and “a venerated maestro” by the BBC, Chick Corea’s restless creativity knows no bounds. The 20-time Grammy Award winner’s groundbreaking band Return To Forever launched the fusion era of the 1970s. From his work with flamenco great Paco de Lucia to headlining the Vienna’s Mozart Celebrations this year, Chick’s whole career is the stuff of jazz lore, an amalgamation of influential, limit-stretching, genre-bending musical experiences.
Béla Fleck
Béla Fleck, considered the premiere banjo player in the world, lives to improvise and loves to work with unexpected musical fusions. His “blu-bop” mix of jazz and bluegrass with his Flecktones was an unexpected commercial success, as well as critically acclaimed and award-winning. Fleck has won 8 Grammys and is the only musician to be nominated for Grammys in jazz, bluegrass, pop, country, gospel, composition and world music categories.
Video
Watch this fun clip of Chick and Béla rehearsing one of their many duets.
Béla Fleck has said, “Chick is my guy — the musician I would want to play with, if there was anybody I could play with, or learn from,” and seeing them play together is an incredible experience.
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Watch the video below to hear what inspired Regina Carter’s latest album:
REGINA CARTER: Southern Comfort
Sunday, March 23rd | 7:00 PM
Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts | Helzberg Hall
Update: Hear Regina Carter’s recent interview on NPR’s All Things Considered here and read the Wall Street Journal Story about her here
Regina Carter
Violinist Regina Carter is considered the foremost jazz violinist of her generation. She has brought curiosity, passion, and a quest for beauty to every stop on her full musical journey. Recognizing Carter as an artist engaged in important creative work, the MacArthur Foundation named her one of its 2006 MacArthur Fellows, awarding her what is often known as a “genius grant.”
Southern Comfort
Her recent project “Southern Comfort” thematically connects Carter’s earlier albums exploring her musical heritage, which feature her mother’s favorite early jazz standards and celebrate the tradition of African music.
On her new album she explores the folk tunes her paternal grandfather, a coalminer, would have heard as he toiled in Alabama – and the project expanded to include other folk tunes of the region. “This disc was to pay homage to my family,” said Carter, “but it turned out to be so much more.”
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Read the Wall Street Journal’s article about Regina Carter’s latest work
Read Rolling Stone Magazine’s review of Southern Comfort
Regina Carter’s performance is generously supported by
The GRAMMY Museum encourages Greater Kansas City-area students ages 14-21 to apply.
Apply for the 2014 GRAMMY Museum Music Revolution Project, deadline March 21st!
The GRAMMY Museum’s Music Revolution Project will offer creative and gifted musicians the opportunity to engage in musical discourse and performance with other talented young people from their area. High school students from genres including classical, jazz, pop, Hip-Hop, folk, sacred and Rock & Roll, will be encouraged to apply to this world-class music academy, created to broaden their musical and creative skill while helping them establish relationships, increase self-esteem, develop entrepreneurial skills and grow their passion for music. This four-week summer academy will begin in Kansas City on June 16, 2014 and culminate on July 11, 2014 with a formal student concert for their family, friends and community. Students will participate in music history and composition classes; have mentoring sessions with GRAMMY Award nominees or winners and form ensembles with their fellow classmates.
Forms –Everything you need to apply
Registration Form (PDF)
Student Criteria (PDF)
Student Contract (PDF)
Parent Contract (PDF)
Music Revolution Project FAQs (PDF)
The GRAMMY Museum’s Music Revolution Project is open to interested students ages 14-21 from the Greater Kansas City area. The deadline for application is March 21st, so apply today!
Community Youth are Provided with Transportation
DID YOU KNOW…
52,994 children from schools across the metro have been provided school bus transportation assistance to a student matinee through the Kauffman Center Open Doors program?
Hundreds of individuals and their families experience extraordinary performances with free and reduced tickets, thanks to the Kauffman Center Open Doors program?
Will you provide a tax-deductible gift of at least $5 to help us continue this great work?
$5 provides school bus transportation assistance for two children to attend a performance.
$50 allows 20 children to experience a student matinee.
$100 can provide free and reduced tickets to families in need.
What people are saying about Open Doors
“I can’t tell you enough how generous everyone is who is involved with making it financially possible to attend a symphony concert at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. Your generosity and the teachers who share the power of music help build a generation of future patrons of the arts. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you!”
–Kody, Music Teacher
“Thank you so much for having us at the Brian Skerry presentation. I had a lot of fun. I loved looking at the underwater photos and learning about the animals I have never heard of. It was an amazing experience.”
–Bailey, 4th Grade Student
“I just wanted to say a big THANK YOU for the tickets for the show on Tuesday night. [The children] enjoyed the music and were very intrigued with the building. It was a great experience for them. Thanks so much for helping us with our mission!”
–Cathy, Non-Profit Organization Program Director
KWTU’s program Sunflower Journeys highlighted the Kauffman Center in their episode “Music Venues,” which aired on October 31. As they note, “It’s been a busy season for the newly-opened Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts as SUNFLOWER JOURNEYS takes a look at this world-class facility, meets the center’s director Jane Chu, and finds out how the center fits into the musical culture of Kansas City and the region.”
The video gives you a behind the scenes look at the Kauffman Center, check out the segment below, and come to a performance at the Kauffman Center to experience it for yourself!
Watch the video
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