This review of Sunday's Kansas City Symphony Orchestra Concert was submitted by Chuck Berg, a Kansas University professor of theater and film.Maestro Michael Stern, since taking the helm of the Kansas City Symphony just four years ago, has taken his gifted colleagues on an artistic voyage of ...

In music, Matt Kirby tries to perform the same, no matter the size of the audience.“Whether six or 6,000 people show up, for me, it’s really the same,” says Kirby, a member of the Alferd Packer Memorial String Band.The Baldwin City sculptor took the same approach to his latest artwork, ...

Love ’em or hate ’em, the outdoor sculptures that line the streets of downtown Lawrence tend to generate a fair share of conversation.Here’s your chance to have some input into the artworks that wil be part of the landscape from June of this year through April 2010.The Lawrence Cultural ...

Four summers ago, Kuok-Wai Lio came to the United States from China to study piano in Lawrence.As part of the annual International Institute for Young Musicians at Kansas University, he was one of a handful of elite students invited to compete and learn from top teachers. He even won that ...

The quarterly Lawrence Downtown Gallery Walk is scheduled from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday. Here are the featured galleries:• Signs of Life Gallery, 722 Mass., featuring a group show called “Warmth in Winter: Color, Heart, Home.”• 6 Gallery, 716 1/2 Mass., featuring “Bestiary,” with ...

It wasn’t until Steve Riley took a music theory class from John Pozdro that his own music-writing career started to take shape.Pozdro pushed his skills, Riley says. And he was funny.“He had this dry sense of humor,” Riley recalls. “He reminded me a little of Bob Hope.”Riley graduated ...