MICHEL MARTIN, HOST:

President-elect Joe Biden has compared the challenges he faces coming into office to those faced by Franklin Delano Roosevelt when he became president in 1932. And like FDR, Biden wants to meet the moment with bold action and an ambitious legislative agenda that includes most urgently passage of his proposed $1.9 trillion pandemic economic relief package.

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST:

President-elect Joe Biden has compared the challenges he faces coming into office to those faced by Franklin Delano Roosevelt when he became president in 1932. And like FDR, Biden wants to meet the moment with bold action and an ambitious legislative agenda that includes most urgently passage of his proposed $1.9 trillion pandemic economic relief package.

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)

Program

Members of the Piano Faculty at the UMKC Conservatory

Keyboard Sonata in C Major, K. 15 by Domenico Scarlatti

Alon Goldstein, piano

Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor, K. 466 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

III. Rondo. Allegro assai

Alon Goldstein, piano

Symphony No. 2, Op. 27 by Sergei Rachmaninoff, Arr by Sean Chen

III. Adagio

Sean Chen, piano

Textures by Paul Lansky

VI. Points of Light

Thomas Rosenkranz, Michael Sheppard, Svet Stoyanov, Gwendolyn Burgett

Segment 1, beginning at 5:02: COVID-19 is delaying some office building deals but several residential projects have opened during the pandemic.

What's driving development in Kansas City, Missouri could be a side-effect of the work from home culture that has sprung up since last February or it could be related to the upcoming expansion of the streetcar line. We review the latest building projects in the city.