A Family Songbook (duo recital) Jeffrey Kahane & Gabriel Kahane

Father and Son Duo Jeffrey and Gabriel Kahane Deliver a Musical Journey Through the Ages in Spectacular Recital

In their first joint recital in a decade, father and son Jeffrey and Gabriel Kahane trace their musical roots through a song-obsessed program spanning five centuries. This evening will include solo piano works by J.S. Bach, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Schumann, and Duke Ellington, among others, as well as songs by Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon, Tracy Chapman, Connie Converse, Jerome Kern, and Gabriel Kahane. The performance will culminate in the Oregon premiere of Final Privacy Song, a sprawling meditation on climate crisis and surveillance, composed by the younger Kahane on a text by acclaimed poet Matthew Zapruder.

Jeffrey is one of the most respected pianists and conductors of our time appearing regularly with major orchestras and having served as the Music Director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra for 20 years. Hailed as “one of the finest songwriters of the day” by The New Yorker, Gabriel Kahane is a musician and storyteller whose work spans the theater, club, and concert hall.

Program I

BACH/KURTAG: O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig

SCHUBERT: Impromptu Op. 90, No. 1 in C minor

KAHANE: We are the Saints

KAHANE: Chemex

KAHANE: To Be American

KAHANE: November

KAHANE: Baltimore

KAHANE: Model Trains

BACH/KURTAG: Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr, BWV 711

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BACH/KURTAG: Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir, BWV 687

KAHANE: Baedeker

KAHANE: Friends of Friends of Bill

SCHUBERT: Impromptu Op. 90, No. 3 in G-flat Major

KAHANE: What If I Told You

KAHANE: October 1, 1939 / Port of Hamburg

SCHUBERT: Impromptu Op. 90, No. 4 in A-flat Major

BACH/KURTAG: Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit, BWV 106

Program II

IVES: Tom Sails Away

IVES: The Housatonic at Stockbridge

SHAW: Other Song

SHAW: How Do I Find You

SHAW: And So

SILL: The Kiss

TRADITIONAL/BRITTEN: O Waly, Waly

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