Fountain City Quartet is scheduled to bring Candlelight: A Haunted Evening of Halloween Classics to Unity Temple on the Plaza on Friday, October 30. The program combines classical selections with screen music, including Michael Jackson’s “Thriller,” the Stranger Things theme by S U R V I V E, and Charles Gounod’s Funeral March of a Marionette, according to Fever’s event listing. The concert is planned for the sanctuary at 707 West 47th Street.
Fever describes the performance as about 60 minutes, with doors opening 45 minutes before showtime and no late entry after it begins. The Kansas City Pitch also reports the October 30 date. Unity Temple’s events page lists performances at 6:30 p.m. and 8:45 p.m.; because the available listings do not make clear which details apply to each booking, attendees should confirm their showtime with the venue or ticket provider.
A concert setting with its own history
The sanctuary is part of a building with roots well before the Candlelight series. Unity Temple’s official history records construction beginning in 1945 and says the building opened to the public on June 20, 1948, after years of planning and construction. Fever’s listing identifies the sanctuary as the concert space; the historic setting is a distinct backdrop for a program that moves between classical music and popular screen themes.
A different local model for live screen music
Kansas City has also hosted a larger-scale version of music performed alongside film: the Kansas City Symphony’s 2024 presentation of Home Alone in Concert at the Kauffman Center paired a screening with John Williams’ score performed live. The Symphony’s season announcement lists the performances for November 29–December 1, 2024. That was a full-orchestra film presentation, unlike the Unity Temple concert’s string-quartet arrangement of selected Halloween and screen-music pieces.
The Unity Temple date is one example of the Candlelight series’ themed programming in Kansas City, not evidence by itself of a broader trend. Fever’s local listings also show a separate Hans Zimmer program at the same sanctuary on November 14, 2026. The listings establish different musical themes at one venue; they do not establish how often such concerts occur or whether the Halloween program’s final set list will match every listed selection.
