INFOTAINMENT

The Kansas City, Missouri, Public Library cranks the Handel on its air conditioning today until it’s baroque. If you’re still reading, you either love puns or you love chamber music. The ensemble Summerfest makes the latter (and, like most people, probably loathes the former) and offers up excerpts from Handel’s “Gloria” with guest soprano Gwendolyn Coleman Detwiler, in an informal performance this evening that the library is calling an “informance.” Lovers of more modern sounds may stick around for American composer Alexandra du Bois’ “Tempête de Sable (Storm of Sand),” from 2003. And come back July 23 for another tasty set by Summerfest, this one showcasing a string piece by opera heavyweight Puccini and a woodwind quintet by the restless 20th-century Hungarian composer Endre Szervánszky. Both concerts start at 7 p.m. at the library’s Plaza Branch (4801 Main, 816-701-3481). Admission is free; RSVP online at kclibrary.org or call 816-701-3407.

Thu., July 9, 7 p.m.; Thu., July 23, 7 p.m., 2009