Great Kansas City Arts news!

Great news, indeed! Kansas City's (actually, Prairie Village's) own Joyce DiDonato and the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts are going to be in a documentary on PBS. The working title is HOMECOMING: THE KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY PRESENTS JOYCE DIDONATO Their write-up on it: "Architect Moshe Safdie’s extraordinary new Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts provides the stunning backdrop for a 60-minute performance-documentary profiling the young, Grammy Award-winning musicians of the Kansas City Symphony, their vibrant artistic director and conductor Michael Stern, and the radiant, internationally celebrated mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato. A concert wrapped by documentary narratives, this Arts Festival special tracks Ms. DiDonato’s nostalgic return to her hometown, and her thrilling Kauffman Center debut, after a triumphant appearance with Placido Domingo at The Metropolitan Opera in New York. Together, Joyce DiDonato, Maestro Stern and the Kansas City Symphony create a musical program as grand and ambitious as the Kauffman Center itself. Produced by Kansas City Public Television (KCPT) in association with veteran PBS music producers James Arntz & John Paulson." Further proof to all the naysayers that building the Kauffman Center was somehow a bad idea. And thank you, thank you, thank you, to the Kauffman family, Julia and her parents, for this and the many gifts they've given Kansas City. As I've said before, we're eternally grateful. Links: http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/blogsburger/53231413-53/arts-pbs-art-festival.html.csp; http://www.pbs.org/about/news/archive/2012/arts-summer-festival/