The Lied Center formally celebrated its 10th anniversary April 17 with a concert by Yo-Yo Ma and The Silk Road Ensemble.

The concert was preceded by Gala Signature Dinners in private homes across Lawrence and followed by a private After-Glow Party on the Lied Center stage.

The events benefited the Lied Performance Fund, which was created in 1996 to ensure that the center remains accessible to the regional community and that its outreach and educational programs serve the entire state.

Only one event remains in the anniversary season. On May 1, composers Philip Glass and Terry Riley will join the Bang on a Can All-Stars for a 7:30 p.m. concert.

The 2003-2004 season also marks the 100th anniversary of the Kansas University Concert Series, which began in 1904 as the May Music Festival. It continued to evolve and as early as the 1960s, university officials began dreaming of a multipurpose performing arts facility that would do justice to all the world-class acts the series attracted.

A $10 million donation from The Lied Foundation in 1988 helped make that dream a reality, and five years later, the Lied Center opened its doors with an eight-performance run of the Broadway hit “The Secret Garden.” Eleven thousand five hundred people saw the show, and current Lied Center director Tim Van Leer, who then led the Mahaffey Theater in St. Petersburg, Fla., was among them.