Everything was out of date in Kansas Cityand they went about as far as they could go to make it that way.
At the Nelson Gallery of Art, a stage festooned with candelabras was the setting for a recital of faded favorites by such composers as Rossini, Liszt and Chabrier. On the Liberty Memorial Mall, an old-fashioned fireworks display climaxed a promenade concert of orchestral chestnuts (Suppé's Poet and Peasant Overture, Strauss's Blue Danube). All over town last weekfrom century-old French costumes and sketches at the public library to art nouveau table settings...
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