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.
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Features
Social and cultural life got off to a slow start in Kansas City’s dusty early years. But in the late-19th and early-20th centuries several of the area’s most durable and…
Lolita Lisovskaya-Sayevich’s seat at the piano is usually several feet behind those of the other musicians onstage. But when the Tashkent native begins to play, you immediately take notice. Her…
Amy Abels Owen caught the theater bug at the age of eight. It happened in downtown Kansas City, where her aunt and grandmother took her to see the touring Broadway…
Owen/Cox and Gilda’s Club enlist dance, music, and poetry to address cancer’s impact Dance is in many ways an ideal art form for expressing big emotions, for putting forth ideas…
