''There's Know Place Like Home'' is

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' fifth live album. It was released as a double CD and also on DVD on October 13, 2009 and

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on November 23, 2009. The DVD charted at No. 5 on the ''

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'' Music DVD chart the week of its release, Kansas's only appearance on that chart. ''There's Know Place Like Home'' is a recording of a concert that took place on February 7, 2009 in

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Washburn University Washburn University (WU), formally Washburn University of Topeka, is a public university in Topeka, Kansas, United States. It offers undergraduate and graduate programs as well as professional programs in law and business. The university enroll ...

(which several members of Kansas attended) along with the Washburn University Symphony Orchestra. The concert featured several orchestral arrangements by Larry Baird of Kansas songs (Baird also served as conductor for this concert) - arrangements the band has been playing with symphony orchestras around the US since the release of 1998's '' Always Never the Same'' which featured the

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accompanying the band. The cover features the old man depicted on the cover of ''

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'' and the papers around him with a black background. A special edition bundle has been released, containing the DVD and two CDs of the concert.

Track listings

DVD, Blu-ray and European double CD edition

US CD track listing

Personnel

;Kansas * Steve Walsh - keyboards, lead vocals *

Rich Williams Richard John Williams (born February 1, 1950) is an American guitarist, primarily known for being one of the only consistent original members of the Rock music, rock band Kansas (band), Kansas alongside drummer Phil Ehart. Both have appeared on ...

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acoustic guitar An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument in the string family. When a string is plucked, its vibration is transmitted from the bridge, resonating throughout the top of the guitar. It is also transmitted to the side and back of the instrument, ...

* David Ragsdale -

violin The violin, sometimes referred to as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family. Smaller violin-type instruments exist, including the violino picc ...

electric guitar An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external electric Guitar amplifier, sound amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar. It uses one or more pickup (music technology), pickups ...

, backing vocals *

Billy Greer Billy Greer (born January 26, 1952) is an American musician who was the bass guitarist for the rock band Kansas from 1985 to 2024. He joined the band when they reformed, making his debut appearance on 1986's '' Power''. He had previously worked ...

bass guitar The bass guitar (), also known as the electric bass guitar, electric bass, or simply the bass, is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is similar in appearance and construction to an Electric guitar, electric but with a longer nec ...

, acoustic guitar, lead and backing vocals * Phil Ehart -

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

, director ;Guest musicians *Larry Baird -

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, orchestral arrangements *

Kerry Livgren Kerry Allen Livgren (born September 18, 1949) is an American musician, best known as one of the founding members and primary songwriters for the American rock band Kansas. Livgren, raised in Topeka, Kansas, developed an early interest in musi ...

- guitar *

Steve Morse Steve J. Morse (born July 28, 1954) is an American guitarist and songwriter. A seven-time Grammy nominee, he is best known as the founder of the Dixie Dregs and as the longest serving guitarist for Deep Purple. Morse also enjoyed a successful ...

- guitar ;Production *

Jeff Glixman Jeff Glixman is an American record producer. He has produced, mixed or remastered artists such as Kansas, Magnum, Gary Moore, Yngwie Malmsteen, The Georgia Satellites and Black Sabbath. Combined sales of his projects exceed 30 million units. Ca ...

- director, producer, mixing *Jim Gentile - producer *Zak Rizvi - director, video editor *Steve Angus - audio/video director and producer *Tom Gregory - audio/video producer *Curt Casassa - associate director *Steve Rawls, Jonathan Beckner - additional

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*Darcy Proper -

audio mastering Mastering is a form of audio post production which is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device called a master recording, the source from which all copies will ...

*Christine Boyd - graphic design

Washburn University Symphony Orchestra

Washburn University Washburn University (WU), formally Washburn University of Topeka, is a public university in Topeka, Kansas, United States. It offers undergraduate and graduate programs as well as professional programs in law and business. The university enroll ...
Staff

*Lori Meador - White Concert Hall Director of Operations *Norman Gamoa - Conductor of the Washburn University Symphony Orchestra *Alex Wise - Assistant conductor *AnnMarie Snook - Chair of the WU Music Department *Lyle Waring - White Concert Hall tech *Mark Noble - Electrician *Lynn Wilson - Theater tech *Elisa Bicker -

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instructor

Violin The violin, sometimes referred to as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family. Smaller violin-type instruments exist, including the violino picc ...

*Carlos Cabezas, ''Principal'' *Román Carranza *Emilio Castro *Manda Chui *Diana Crain *William Darst, ''Concertmaster'' *Amanda Huguenin *Eun Hye Kim *Robert Johnson *Valeriya Kanaeva *Michelle Lassiter *Michael Putnam *Manuel Tábora *Mario Zelaya

Viola The viola ( , () ) is a string instrument of the violin family, and is usually bowed when played. Violas are slightly larger than violins, and have a lower and deeper sound. Since the 18th century, it has been the middle or alto voice of the ...

*Solmer Alvarez *Lucia Darst *Marcela Fernández *Caitlin Givens *Roberto Henríquez, ''Principal'' *Lindsay Paul

Cello The violoncello ( , ), commonly abbreviated as cello ( ), is a middle pitched bowed (sometimes pizzicato, plucked and occasionally col legno, hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually intonation (music), tuned i ...

*Austin Abernathy *Samuel Cho, ''Principal'' *Taryn Doty *Milovan Paz *Esther Valladares *Phillip Watson

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*Courtney Doole *Carrie Drexler, ''Principal'' *Jeff Torrez *Aaron Roeckers *Joel Stratton

Flute The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, producing sound with a vibrating column of air. Flutes produce sound when the player's air flows across an opening. In th ...

*Erica Nightengale, ''Principal'' *Christopher Roth *Jessica Vogel, Piccolo

Oboe The oboe ( ) is a type of double-reed woodwind instrument. Oboes are usually made of wood, but may also be made of synthetic materials, such as plastic, resin, or hybrid composites. The most common type of oboe, the soprano oboe pitched in C, ...

*Robyn Bolton, English Horn *Chelsea Loder *José Salazar, ''Principal''

Clarinet The clarinet is a Single-reed instrument, single-reed musical instrument in the woodwind family, with a nearly cylindrical bore (wind instruments), bore and a flared bell. Clarinets comprise a Family (musical instruments), family of instrume ...

*Amanda Mayo, ''Principal'' *Anthony Roth *Bailey Altman, Bass Clarinet

Bassoon The bassoon is a musical instrument in the woodwind family, which plays in the tenor and bass ranges. It is composed of six pieces, and is usually made of wood. It is known for its distinctive tone color, wide range, versatility, and virtuosity ...

*Natalie Moreland, ''Principal'' *Genni Newsham

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*James Gutiérrez *Anna Lischke, ''Associate Principal'' *Raúl Rodríguez, ''Principal'' *Jacob Trabert *Yiyang Zhang

Trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz musical ensemble, ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest Register (music), register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitche ...

*James Kirkwood *Travis Mott *Juan Pablo Rodríguez, ''Principal'' *Jakub Roštík

Trombone The trombone (, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the Brass instrument, brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's lips vibrate inside a mouthpiece, causing the Standing wave, air c ...

*Neil McKay *Tyson Sterling *Paul Kirkwood, ''Principal''

Tuba The tuba (; ) is the largest and lowest-pitched musical instrument in the brass instrument, brass family. As with all brass instruments, the sound is produced by lip vibrationa buzzinto a mouthpiece (brass), mouthpiece. It first appeared in th ...

*Benjamin Thomson, ''Principal''

Harp The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers. Harps can be made and played in various ways, standing or sitting, and in orchestras or ...

*Lauren Woidela *Mariela Flores, ''Principal''

Keyboards

*Allegra Fisher, ''Principal'' *Jordan Ward, ''Celesta''

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&
percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...

*William Arasmith *Matthew Bell *Jason Degenhardt *Brandon Graves *David Liston *Theodore Musick, ''Principal'' *Lucas Whippo *David Wingerson

References

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