Why has Kansas City’s performing arts center stalled at the planning stage? Paul Horsley thinks he knows: the culprit is “the musical illiteracy of Kansas City’s political, economic and even intellectual elite… The malaise embraces more than boardrooms and government offices. It infects the city’s media outlets. A recent radio program devoted to discussing the PAC’s future had not one arts person present. To this panel of bureaucrats and business heads, the center was a structure, a shell designed to generate revenue and make Kansas City look snazzy.” Nonetheless, the city appears poised to embrace a watered-down renovation plan…