UP NEXT: MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP AND JUAN DIEGO FLóREZ
Kansas City Star
Patrick Neas
November 10, 2023
MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP
“What the world needs now is love sweet love.” Boy, doesn’t it. The Harriman-Jewell Series will fill the Muriel Kau!man Theatre with those much-needed love vibes when it presents the “The Look of Love” performed by the Mark Morris Dance Group on Nov. 17. “The Look of Love” is based on the songs of Burt Bacharach, which will be performed live with a combo and acclaimed Broadway singer Marcy Harriell.
Bacharach, who died in February at the age of 94, is one of Kansas City’s most illustrious native sons. His family’s home was on Warwick Boulevard, and Bacharach once mentioned at a concert in Kansas City how ironic it was that the singer Dionne Warwick would become the foremost interpreter of his songs.
Morris has a special way of taking pop music and turning it into brilliant dance, as he did with The Beatles in “Pepperland.” One anticipates he’ll do the same with Bacharach’s witty and poignant love songs.
7:30 p.m. Nov. 17. Muriel Kauffman Theatre, Kau!man Center for the Performing Arts. $12.50-$90. 816-415-5025 or hjseries.org.
JUAN DIEGO FLÓREZ
Tickets to this concert are going to be a hot item. The Harriman-Jewell Series presents Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez on Nov. 26 at the Folly Theater. The opera superstar made his American recital debut on the Harriman-Jewell Series, which has presented him several times. Along the way, Flórez developed a deep friendship with the founder of the series, Richard Harriman. In fact, Harriman accepted Flórez’s invitation to attend his wedding in Peru.
Flórez will sing a program of opera arias and art songs, and there will be some surprises, too.
3 p.m. Nov. 26. Folly Theater, 300 W. 12th St. $12.50-$90. 816-415-5025 or hjseries.org.