newEar celebrates its sixteenth season of challenging and innovative music-making with Crossings, a series of concerts that explores all manner of encounters, intersections, collisions, crossplay and merging of disparate elements. Whether it is in the variety of ways that some composers have engaged with a challenging new stylistic movement, the influence of the geographical crossroads of Kansas City, the exploration of acoustic space, or an account of how one composer confronted and transformed all of the music that he encountered over a long and productive career, this season promises to be one of our most exciting ever and one you won’t want to miss.

Kansas City has historically been known as a crossroads for trade and culture. This concert presents the work of several composers who have had significant crossings with our great city and also features bouzouki virtuoso Roger Landes. His brilliant musicianship will be featured on Paul Elwood’s In Blue Space and a new work for bouzouki and electronics by Paul Rudy—Sibling Rivalries. Also on the program: a commissioned work by Thailand’s rising star Narong Prangcharoen, as well as new works by Ingrid Stölzel, William J. Lackey and David D. McIntire.

Tickets for are $20 and $8 for students with ID. For ticket information call the Central Ticket Office at 816.235.6222 or toll-free at 1.888.286.4849.

Financial assistance for newEar has been provided by the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, DST Systems, Inc., the Carolyn L. Hart Memorial Trust and the Missouri Arts Council, a state agency.