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18-496: The orchestra's current music director is Matthias Pintscher , as of the 2024-2025 season. Michael Stern , the orchestra's music director from 2005 to 2024, is music director laureate of the orchestra. Since July 2019, the orchestra's current executive director is Danny Beckley. In 1911, the first iteration of the Kansas City Symphony was formed for Carl Busch . The city's first symphony orchestra, it ceased operations at

36-541: A further album, The Sound of Kansas City , in 2004, derived from live performances by the orchestra recorded in 2002 and 2003. In 2005, Michael Stern became music director of the orchestra. During Stern's tenure, the orchestra moved to the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in 2011. The orchestra and Stern have made several commercial recordings. These include a recording of Gordon Chin's Formosa Seasons on

54-647: A professor of composition at the Juilliard School . Montepulciano Montepulciano ( Italian: [ˌmontepulˈtʃaːno] ) is a medieval and Renaissance hill town and comune in the Italian province of Siena in southern Tuscany . It sits high on a 605-metre (1,985 ft) limestone ridge, 13 kilometres (8 mi) east of Pienza , 70 kilometres (43 mi) southeast of Siena , 124 kilometres (77 mi) southeast of Florence , and 186 kilometres (116 mi) north of Rome by car. Montepulciano

72-710: A settlement was in existence in the 4th-3rd centuries BC. In Roman times it was the seat of a garrison guarding the main roads of the area. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire , it developed as a religious center under the Lombards . In the 12th century it was repeatedly attacked by the Republic of Siena , which the Poliziani faced with the help of the Perugia and Orvieto , and sometimes Florence , communes. The 14th century

90-652: Is a wine-producing region. The Vino Nobile di Montepulciano has Denominazione di origine controllata e garantita status and is, with the Brunello di Montalcino and Chianti Classico , one of the principal red wines of Tuscany. The Rosso di Montepulciano and Vin Santo di Montepulciano have Denominazione di origine controllata status. According to legend, it was founded by the Etruscan King Lars Porsena of Clusium (modern Chiusi ). Recent findings prove that

108-464: Is headed by a mayor ( sindaco ) assisted by a legislative body, the consiglio comunale , and an executive body, the giunta comunale . Since 1995 the mayor and members of the consiglio comunale are directly elected together by resident citizens, while from 1945 to 1995 the mayor was chosen by the legislative body. The giunta comunale is chaired by the mayor, who appoints others members, called assessori . The offices of

126-669: The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra . In June 2012, the Ensemble intercontemporain announced the appointment of Pintscher as its next music director, beginning in the 2013–2014 season. With the 2014–2015 season, Pintscher became artist-in-residence with the Danish Radio for a period of three years. For the 2014–2015 season, he was the artist-in-residence at the Cologne Philharmonie. Pintscher concluded his tenure with

144-555: The Bravio delle botti has been held on the last Sunday of August since the 14th Century. Since the Second World War, tourism has been a significant aspect in the economy of the urban part of the commune. Many of the streets are designated as car-free. Most of the shops and restaurants are on the main street, which stretches from Porta Al Prato to Piazza Grande for 1.5 kilometres (0.9 mi). The main landmarks include: Montepulciano

162-638: The Hochschule für Musik Detmold in Detmold . In 1990, he met Hans Werner Henze , and in 1991 and 1992, he was invited to Henze's summer school in Montepulciano , Italy . He later studied with German composer and flutist Manfred Trojahn . He held a Daniel R. Lewis Young Composer Fellowship with the Cleveland Orchestra from 2000 to 2002. In October 2010, Pintscher became the first Artist-in-Association with

180-649: The Ensemble intercontemporain at the close of the 2022–2023 season. In March 2023, Pintscher first guest conducted the Kansas City Symphony . On the basis of this appearance, the Kansas City Symphony announced in May 2023 the appointment of Pintscher as its next music director, effective with the 2024–2025 season, with an initial contract of five seasons. Since 2008, Pintscher has lived in New York City. He serves as

198-457: The Naxos label, and two settings for Shakespeare's Tempest (by Arthur Sullivan and Jean Sibelius) with Reference Recordings. The orchestra is also featured on the recording Britten's Orchestra (2009), a Vaughan Williams and Elgar disc from 2013, and a Hindemith, Prokofiev, and Bartók in 2014 also with Reference Recordings. In 2023, controversy arose after the orchestra denied tenure to Josh Jones,

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216-490: The formation of the second iteration of the Kansas City Symphony. The orchestra gave its concerts at the Lyric Theatre . William McGlaughlin was music director from 1986 to 1997. During McGlaughlin's tenure, the orchestra released its first compact disc, American Voices , in 1995. From 1999 to 2003, Anne Manson was music director of the orchestra, the first female conductor to hold the post. During her tenure, in 2002,

234-505: The orchestra announced the appointment of Pintscher as its next music director, effective with the 2024-2025 season, with an initial contract of five seasons. Matthias Pintscher Matthias Pintscher (born 29 January 1971) is a German composer, conductor and academic teacher. Pintscher was born in Marl, North Rhine-Westphalia . As a youth, he studied the violin and conducting. He began his music studies with Giselher Klebe in 1988 at

252-799: The orchestra participated in the development of the ' Concert Companion ', led by then-executive director Roland Valliere. Funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation , John S. and James L. Knight Foundation , the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation , the Concert Companion was tested by the Kansas City Symphony, as well as the New York Philharmonic , Philadelphia Orchestra , Pittsburgh Symphony , Aspen Music Festival , and Oakland East Bay Symphony . The orchestra released

270-414: The orchestra’s first Black tenure-track musician who had originally been appointed to the orchestra effective with the 2020-2021 season. Stern concluded his tenure with the orchestra at the close of the 2023-2024 season, and now has the title of music director laureate of the orchestra. In March 2023, Matthias Pintscher first guest-conducted the orchestra. On the basis of this appearance, in May 2023,

288-525: The start of World War I, as many of the musicians were sent to military service. Kansas City's second symphony orchestra was the Kansas City Philharmonic, founded in 1933 and dissolved in 1982. In the same year, businessman and philanthropist R. Crosby Kemper, Jr. and other Kansas City businessmen, including Hallmark Cards chairman and chief executive officer Donald J. Hall, Sr. and H&R Block co-founder Henry W. Bloch , provided funds for

306-582: Was characterized by constant struggles between the local noble families, until the Del Pecora family became rulers of the town. From 1390, Montepulciano was a loyal ally (and later possession ) of Florence and, until the mid-16th century, lived a period of splendour with architects such as Antonio da Sangallo the Elder , Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola, Baldassarre Peruzzi , Ippolito Scalza and others, building luxurious residences and other edifices here. In 1559, when Siena

324-460: Was conquered by Florence and Montepulciano lost its strategic role, its importance declined. After the unification of Italy and the drying of the Val di Chiana , the town remained the most important agricultural centre in the area, while the industrial activities moved mostly next to Chiusi , which was nearer to the railroad being built in that period. A competitive "barrel race through the city" called

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