Paul Horsley, Performing Arts Editor
Email: Paul@kcindependent.com
Paul studied piano and musicology at WSU and Cornell University. He also earned a degree in journalism, because writing about the arts in order to inspire others to partake in them was always his first love. After earning a PhD from Cornell, he became Program Annotator for the Philadelphia Orchestra, where he learned firsthand the challenges that non profits face. He moved to KC to join the then-thriving Arts Desk at The Kansas City Star, but in 2008 he happily accepted a post at The Independent. Paul contributes to national publications, including Dance Magazine, Symphony, Musical America, and The New York Times, and has conducted scholarly research in Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic (the latter on a Fulbright Fellowship). He also taught musicology at Cornell, LSU and Park University.
- ABILITY TO ACT: Coterie introduces musical based on Sotomayor’s children’s book
- Paul Horsley’s Best of Spring
- JOSQUIN HERO: Ensemble brings out the vitality of music’s first “world-famous composer”
- PHOENIX FROM THE ASHES: Company reemerges after blaze in historic theater poses existential threat
- SING WE NOW: Local choral groups draw enthusiastic audiences year-round
Features
It was neither barbecue nor Constitutional debate that drew Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to Kansas City this August, but a workshop to prepare a new project for the Coterie…
… in music, theater, and dance JANUARY-FEBRUARY January 29-February 23: Coterie Theatre; Just Ask!; The best-selling book by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, which Fran Sillau and Mark Kurtz have…
Even if you don’t know the name Josquin des Prez (ca. 1450-1521), you will soon have a chance to learn more about the composer who is recognized as the foremost…
Karen Paisley and the board of directors of the Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre have an urgent message for Kansas City theatergoers: We’re still here. Ten months after what appeared to be a…
