Yo-Yo Ma just played a KC concert with Ralph Yarl. Now you can see the cellist for free
A day after he played with Ralph Yarl on stage, legendary cellist Yo-Yo Ma is performing a free concert in Kansas City.
The cellist is performing with the Harmony Project, an organization in the Northeast for young musicians in the Kansas City area, as a part of the Kansas City Symphony’s Mobile Music Box. The concert starts at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at Parade Park, 1600 E. 17th Terrace, in the 18th and Vine District.
Yo-Yo Ma was in attendance at the Kauffman Center for Performing Arts on Tuesday and performed with Ralph Yarl, the Northland teenager who was shot in the head and arm after accidentally going to the wrong house to pick up his brothers in April 2023.
At Wednesday’s free show, Kansas City Symphony string players are set to perform works by composers Felix Mendelssohn and Antonín Dvořák. Yo-Yo Ma will then join the combined groups for Leonard Bernstein’s “Make Our Garden Grow” from “Candide” and “Kansas City, Here I Come,” by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller.
The Harmony Project will perform two short pieces by composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, the symphony said in a blog post.
Guests should bring blankets or lawn chairs to the show.
Check out more free concerts and shows happening around Kansas City with The Star’s summer events guide.
This story was originally published June 5, 2024 at 11:18 AM.
