Lee Hartman

Celebrating with pride

23 Apr 2013

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The Mid America Freedom Band hosted quite a shindig for its Tenth Anniversary Celebration this past Saturday, performing celebratory pieces, film scores, pop music, and a commissioned work by musical director Lee Hartman.

INTERVIEW: Cameron Carpenter, organist

30 Oct 2012

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Lee Hartman posed a series of questions to Grammy-nominated Cameron Carpenter, the bad boy of the organ, as his November 4 performance at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts fast approaches.

INTERVIEW: Jeremy Denk, pianist

2 Oct 2012

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Lee Hartman spoke this week with pianist Jeremy Denk, who has earned equally stellar reputations as a solo performer, chamber collaborator extraordinaire, and prolific writer. In this interview Hartman and Denk discuss the pianist’s fast-approachi...

Editor’s Picks 2011–12 season: Lee

21 Aug 2012

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To get the in the spirit of the upcoming season, Editor-in-Chief Lee Hartman picks his top ten favorite events from Kansas City's 2011–12 season.

Mid America Freedom Band announces new artistic director

21 Aug 2012

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The Mid America Freedom Band is pleased to announce that Lee Hartman has accepted the position of artistic director for the organization.

Alumnus Lee Hartman (MM & DMA composition) was just appointed artistic director...

21 Aug 2012

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Alumnus Lee Hartman (MM & DMA composition) was just appointed artistic director of Mid America Freedom Band ! Way to do, dude! News Release: Composition Alum Lee Hartman Named Artistic Director of Mid America New Freedom Band - conservator...

Composition Alum Lee Hartman Named Artistic Director of Mid America New Freedom Band

20 Aug 2012

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Lee Hartman (DMA, Composition, 2009, MM, Composition, 2005) has been named artistic director of the Mid America Freedom Band , Kansas City, MO. Hartman teaches at the University of ...

Fall 2012 preview: Opera/choral/vocal offerings

14 Aug 2012

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Lee Hartman gives us a look at what the many voices of Kansas City will have to offer this fall season.

Liberty Symphony bonds with Brahms

1 May 2012

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With a double dose of Brahms and a splash of Mendelssohn the Liberty Symphony Orchestra and William Jewell College Choir performed to a well attended house on Saturday evening.

Artistry inside the machine

24 Apr 2012

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A wonderfully diverse selection of electroacoustic works was presented by the Kansas City Electronic Music and Arts Alliance in its final concert of the season on Saturday evening at Unity Temple.

Movers, Shakers, Stalwarts: Christopher Kelts

17 Apr 2012

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Lee Hartman recently interviewed Christopher Kelts, music director of Kansas City Civic Orchestra; founder, artistic director, and music director of Kinnor Philharmonic and assistant professor at Washburn University where he teaches orchestra, con...

Frigid “Passion”

10 Apr 2012

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Clean, crisp, and tight, the UMKC Conservatory Singers celebrated a harrowing winter fable in David Lang’s Pulitzer Prize-winning adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s “Little Match Girl.”

Symphonic study in musical variety

3 Apr 2012

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With the unconventional pairing of Bartók with Mozart, and a new commission by Daniel Kellogg, the Kansas City Symphony with soloist Yefim Bronfman, found the unfortunate cracks in Helzberg Hall’s acoustics.

French Baroque receives its due

3 Apr 2012

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Arnold Epley’s Musica Vocale sang works from and inspired by the oft-neglected French Baroque composers Charpentier, Mouton, and Goudimel.

Te Deum’s Lenten feast

27 Mar 2012

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Te Deum Chamber Choir’s “Lenten Meditations” concert was a diverse look at sacred texts in five sets that spanned nations, faiths, and eras.

Goldenberg Duo keeps it light and lyrical

20 Mar 2012

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Veteran brother-sister musical act the Goldenberg Duo performed an evening of character pieces for violin and piano for the Alliance Française de Kansas City last Tuesday.

INTERVIEW: Adam Schoenberg, composer

20 Mar 2012

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In January, the Kansas City Symphony announced that Adam Schoenberg will serve as Composer-in-Residence for its upcoming sophomore season at the Kauffman Center—the first composer chosen to fill this role at the Symphony in more than a decade. Thi...

Spire's modern masterpieces

13 Mar 2012

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The Spire Chamber Ensemble, a choir based out of the Community of Christ Temple, presented a spring concert of “Modern Masterpieces” with works by Lauridsen, Dove, Gjeilo, Stroope, and more.

Christie on the Casavant

13 Mar 2012

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Capacity audiences experienced the first sounds of Helzberg Hall’s Casavant Pipe Organ over the weekend during the "king of instruments" inaugural concerts.

Opera in the age of the sound bite

12 Mar 2012

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March 10th is the day that the Lyric Opera of Kansas City declared its artistic viability and integrity for the future. With the production team from the Vancouver Opera’s 2010 run and key singers from last year’s Met staging, John Adams’s "Nixon ...

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