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Sounds Like with Sean Chen
Wednesdays at 5:01 p.m. and 10:01 p.m., Thursdays at 12:01 p.m. and Saturdays at 7:01 a.m.

Beethoven and Billy Joel? Electric Vehicles and Arvo Pärt? Brahms and Jiminy Cricket? Experience unexpected musical connections and custom mashups with Sean Chen, award winning pianist and Jack Strandberg/Missouri Endowed Professor of Piano at the UMKC Conservatory.

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“Sounds Like with Sean Chen” is made possible with support from the UMKC Friends of the Conservatory.

Ep. 1 - "Not All By Myself"
While struggling to write his second piano concerto, composer Sergei Rachmaninoff sought the help of a hypnotherapist. The work that emerged has become an audience favorite, and thanks to a singer-songwriter from Cleveland, Rachmaninoff would land on the pop charts 75 years later.