Contact information
Phone:
(610) 330-5009
Email:
williamscenter@lafayette.edu
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When:
Friday, April 26, 2013 - 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Where:
Williams Center for the Arts
Presenter:
Chamber Music series
Price:
$33 public; $6 students; $5 staff and faculty; FREE Lafayette students
7:00 pm Composer’s Chat with Gabriel Kahane
J. Mahlon and Grace Buck Concert
Heralded young musician Gabriel Kahane blends the troubadour traditions of Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan with the contemporary stylishness of urban song. As Orpheus’s first composer-in-residence, Kahane is embarking on a bold musical excursion through journals from writers and musicians active in the 1930s WPA program. As a pianist and a singer, Kahane has created for himself and for Orpheus an orchestral song cycle of musical courage and imagination, rich in homage to a bygone era in the American experience. The flood of critical praise Kahane has received includes this from Prefix Magazine: “There is nobody else…making music even remotely as sophisticated as what you’ll hear on from Gabriel Kahane. This is music for the ears, the intellect, and the soul, and an auspicious debut recording from one of the most prodigious talents we’ve got.” This final Orpheus program for the year also includes Hugo Wolf’s Italian Serenade and Arnold Schoenberg’s sensuous and enthralling tone poem, Transfigured Night.
J. Mahlon and Grace Buck Concert
Heralded young musician Gabriel Kahane blends the troubadour traditions of Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan with the contemporary stylishness of urban song. As Orpheus’s first composer-in-residence, Kahane is embarking on a bold musical excursion through journals from writers and musicians active in the 1930s WPA program. As a pianist and a singer, Kahane has created for himself and for Orpheus an orchestral song cycle of musical courage and imagination, rich in homage to a bygone era in the American experience. The flood of critical praise Kahane has received includes this from Prefix Magazine: “There is nobody else…making music even remotely as sophisticated as what you’ll hear on from Gabriel Kahane. This is music for the ears, the intellect, and the soul, and an auspicious debut recording from one of the most prodigious talents we’ve got.” This final Orpheus program for the year also includes Hugo Wolf’s Italian Serenade and Arnold Schoenberg’s sensuous and enthralling tone poem, Transfigured Night.
Sponsored by:
Williams Center for the Arts