Join the Kansas City Symphony and Music Director Matthias Pintscher for the return of brilliant pianist Emanuel Ax. He performs Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20, a stormy, atmospheric concerto that was one of only two Mozart wrote in a minor key. Then embark on a heroic journey with Richard Strauss’ Ein Heldenleben, an extended tone poem about the composer’s ideal of a great hero and his feats.

Matthias Pintscher, music director and conductor
Emanuel Ax, piano

JOHANN STRAUSS II Overture to Die Fledermaus
W.A. MOZART Piano Concerto No. 20
RICHARD STRAUSS Ein Heldenleben (A Hero’s Life)