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Title: Festivals: An Appetite-Whetting Thing
Description: Photo and article about the Henry Purcell festival (with a "symposium on the composer's works" sponsored by the Kansas City Public Library) centered on the composer's operas performed at the Music Hall and promoted by the Performing Arts Foundation (led by president Cynthia Kemper) and the Kansas City Star, etc.
Date: 1966-06-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Opera: C. C. C. in K. C.
Description: Photo and article about "the formation of a sorely needed Performing Arts Foundation of Kansas City--otherwise known as the C. C. C. movement, Cindy's Culture Crusade," named for 35-year-old promoter Mrs. Cynthia Kemper (nicknamed Cindy), "vivacious wife of Millionaire Banker R. Crosby Kemper, Jr." Photo and description of the effort's first operatic production, "the U. S. premiere of Handel's 241-year-old opera, 'Julius Caesar,'" at the Music Hall.
Date: 1965-06-04
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Music: Everything's Up to Date
Description: Photo and article about "Kansas City's first operatic spectacular--the American premiere of Handel's 'Julius Caesar'" at the Music Hall. Description of the promotion of the movement by Cynthia Kemper, wife of banker R. Crosby Kemper, Jr. "and member of the newly formed Performing Arts Foundation of Kansas City," inspired by similar programs "awaken[ing]" a sense of high culture in other cities such as Dallas, Atlanta, and Saint Louis.
Date: 1965-05-31
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Bartle Deal Clears Way for Ballroom
Description: A preliminary agreement has been reached that will allow construction of the Bartle Hall ballroom and provide a $25 million city contribution to a revised Performing Arts Center. About 1/3 of a 17.5 acre tract at 16th and Central owned by the Performing Arts Center Holdings, Inc., a subsidiary of the Muriel Kauffman Foundation, will be acquired for the ballroom project. A Bartle Hall improvement program approved by voters in November 2002 included the ballroom project. April 18, 2005 the arts center board voted to consider the idea of renovating the historic Lyric Theatre and combine it with a new symphony hall. This process is just beginning.
Date: 2005-05-03
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Folly Theater
Description: View looking north of the Folly Theater at 12th and Central streets during its restoration. A sign explaining the restoration project created by the Performing Arts Foundation can be seen on the front of the building.
Date: 1975~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: SC223 Folly Theater Collection Finding Aid
Description: Open since 1900, the Folly Theater has assumed several names and identities over the decades, from a vaudeville, burlesque, and Shakespearean playhouse to an X-rated movie theater. Today, it serves as Kansas City’s oldest performing arts venue. The Folly Theater Collection contains photographs, scrapbooks, posters, administrative and financial records, building blueprints, and various artifacts that document the theater’s diverse history.
Date: 1877/2014
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: Kansas City Report: Everything's Up to Date in. ..
Description: Overview of Kansas City's "cultural renaissance" in the arts with descriptions of opera at the Lyric Theater, visual arts at "the Nelson Gallery of Art," classical music by the Kansas City Philharmonic, and promotion of all of these by the new Performing Arts Foundation, etc.
Date: 1965-08
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Kansas City Report: A Celebration of Henry Purcell
Description: Photo and article about the operatic performances produced by the Performing Arts Foundation of Kansas City, Missouri, and the work of Henry Purcell (an English composer) at the Music Hall in 1966 (with Dame Margot Fonteyn among the performers) after debuting George Handel's "Giulio Cesare" the previous year.
Date: 1966-08
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Kansas City: Olivero's Miraculous Medea
Description: Photo (of singer Magda Olivero) and article about the operatic performances in Kansas City put on by the Performing Arts Foundation, founded in 1965. Also review of dance routines by Alvin Ailey and "a 'living' exhibition of Kansas City's superb Nelson Gallery called 'Magic Theater,' a combination of structures, light, and sound."
Date: 1968-08
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Reports: Kansas City
Description: Photo, caption, and article about the opera performances in Kansas City produced by the Kansas City Performing Arts Foundation.
Date: 1967-09-09
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Up to Date in Kansas City
Description: Article about the fine arts institutions in Kansas City including opera at the Lyric Theater since 1957 and through the Kansas City Performing Arts Foundation from 1965 to 1969 (bankrupted "even with extraordinary financial backing"). Description of the Lyric's history under director Russell Patterson, held in the Rockhill Theater (until its destruction by fire in 1967) and then the Uptown Theater.
Date: 1973-09
Object Type: Magazine Article

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