Community Concerts at Shawnee Presbyterian

02/24/2024

One week from today! CCSP is proud to present Trinity Jazz in a special Lenten program. Come join in scripture, hymn singing, and jazz! Then meet the artists at the reception following the concert. Bring friends and family!

02/22/2024

02/22/2024

Thanks to all who came out to our concert last weekend! Here are some pics of the event. It was a fun concert. Yes, those are bee antennae.... enhancement for our encore - Bumble Boogie. Next Saturday, March 2, we welcome TRINITY JAZZ to our stage. Stay tuned for details!

02/17/2024

TOMORROW! Duo Piano Concert at 3:00. Music by Gluck, Mozart, Poulenc, Lecuona, Hayes, Holst, and Milhaud. Sounds like it will be a long concert, but all pieces are short and fun! Come hear this free concert and join us for a chat at the reception following. Bring friends and family!

02/11/2024

We are so excited to present our February concert on Saturday, February 17 at 3:00 - The Stroth-Hackleman Duo! Here is the program - as you can see, it is quited varied and audience-friendly (and not as long as it looks....😊) Come hear the concert and bring friends and family. As always, there will be meet-and-greet reception following the concert. Hope to see you there!

01/22/2024

Just 6 days until our next Concert! Check out the beautiful sound of the combination of flute, viola, and harp in this excerpt of Debussy's Sonata, performed by Trio Lawrence in a Kansas Public Radio broadcast.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/19mbRVTrhRkGK5r1hIZCcYMTbuF-p2oeY/view
They will be playing this for us on Saturday! Come for the concert and stay for the reception to meet the artists. Erin will give us a demonstration of how the harp works, too!
Trio Lawrence is comprised of University of Kansas faculty members, Boris Vayner, Daniel Velasco, and Erin Wood. Hailing from around the globe, they met in Lawrence and have been performing together for over five years. Their first performance was at the Lawrence Public Library as part of the inaugural Kansas Public Radio Live Day, and they have continued to perform all over the state. Upcoming projects include a CD recording, commissioning new music, and a performance at the American Viola Society Festival in Los Angeles this summer.

01/15/2024

Coming soon to CCSP! Trio Lawrence - flute, viola, and harp. Stay tuned for more information!

01/10/2024

Get ready for an exciting 2024 in concerts!

12/08/2023

TOMORROW! December 9, we host the UMKC Conservatory RooHorns for our annual Christmas Concert and Carol Sing-Along! Join us at 3:00 for the concert and stay after for holiday treats and conversation with the artists! Free and open to the public. Bring Friends and Family!
6837 Nieman Rd, Shawnee, KS

12/02/2023

Next Saturday, December 9, we host the UMKC Conservatory RooHorns for our annual Christmas Concert and Carol Sing-Along! Join us at 3:00 for the concert and stay after for holiday treats and conversation with the artists! Free and open to the public. Bring Friends and Family!
6837 Nieman Rd, Shawnee, KS

11/11/2023

Here is the program for tomorrow!

11/11/2023

The Sextet for Woodwind Quintet and Piano by Gordon Jacob was written in memory of Aubrey Brain, the great horn player and father of the equally distinguished Dennis Brain. Very shortly after its first performance by the Dennis Brain Ensemble Dennis Brain himself was killed in a motor accident. The work can therefore be regarded as a double tribute to the memory of father and son.

The musical notes, A, B, E, B, A, taken from the name Aubrey Brain, are used as a thematic basis for all the movements but one.

Come hear this beautiful work and others tomorrow afternoon at 3:00, played by the renowned Beaufort Winds!

11/04/2023

Our November concert is coming up soon! Next Saturday, November 11 at 3:00 p.m. Please join us for some amazing playing by the Beaufort Winds, Kansas City's newest professional woodwind quintet! Meet-and-greet the artists reception to follow. All concerts are free and open to the public.

10/20/2023

CONCERT TOMORROW! Please join us for an afternoon of fantastic music!

10/11/2023

10 days! Mark your calendars! Saturday, October 21 at 3:00 p.m.
Bring family and friends! Reception following the concert.

09/25/2023

ANNOUNCING OUR THIRD SEASON!
We expect this one to be the best one yet!
We have a new email address, too. If you wish to be added to our email list (will NOT be shared) send us a message to: [email protected]
Hope to see you at our first concert in October!

07/24/2023

Announcing our Third Season! Our first concert is October 21, 2023 at 3:00 p.m. All concerts are free and open to the public! A "Meet and Greet the Musicians" reception will follow the performance. Wine and cheese, and cookies and punch offered.
Bring family and friends!

03/25/2023

Hello dear music lovers - here is what you will hear on the program next Saturday. Getting excited - only one week away!
Hope to see you there!

03/20/2023

Join us for our final concert of the season! We are excited to host the Doug Talley Quartet for some jazz-infused spring inspiration! Come to hear this renowned Kansas City group play a mix of old standards, bebop, and original tunes. Free and open to the public - meet-and-greet-the-artists reception to follow the concert.

03/03/2023

The program for Saturday.

03/03/2023

For our next concert, we're going topless! Join us next Saturday, March 11, at 3:00 for the glorious sound of two pianos played at the same time!

02/25/2023

Just two weeks from today! Music for two pianos - J.S. Bach, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, and continuing our celebration Sergei Rachmaninov's 150th birthday!

02/08/2023

And now, for something completely different! Join us for a talented group of brass players for a fun afternoon of music and cookies! These top-notch players will not disappoint! Saturday, February 11, 3:00 p.m.

01/25/2023

Here are some photos from our January concert.

01/13/2023

To say that Claude Debussy resisted conformity would be an understatement. As a young student at the Paris Conservatoire, he constantly questioned his teachers, “Why must I avoid parallel fifths?” when they insisted upon his mastering the traditional functional harmony accepted as standard as far back as Johann Sebastian Bach.

Debussy’s interest in the ancient and exotic, (as well as pleasure in defying conformity) is precisely what led him to to use both parallels and open fifths in one of the pieces you will hear on the program this Saturday - La Cathédrale Engloutie (Engulfed Cathedral.) The sound of an “open” fifth - a chord with absence of a middle note to make it neither major or minor - pervades the piece, making it sound like the ancient chant that was the standard before Bach’s time. Come hear this landmark piece by Monsieur Debussy and learn more about the master who changed the face of classical music with his willful disobedience!
See you Saturday!