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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