photo: Mayumi Ando
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yMusic &
Gabriel Kahane
Featuring Gabriel Kahane’s
For the Union Dead written for yMusic;
Instrumental arrangements by
Avro Pärt and Sufjan Stevens;
New works by Son Lux and
New Amsterdam Records founder
Judd Greenstein
April 16 & 17, 2010
Fri. & Sat. at 8pm
Pre-show reception each night
at 7:00pm
sponsored by
The Red Stag Supperclub
Tickets:$20
$5 discount for Fringe button holders. Code FRINGE10. Applies to regularly priced tickets purchased by phone or in-person. Offer expires 2-hours prior performance. Offer not available on-line or on previously purchased tickets. Service charges apply.
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"[Gabriel Kahane’s] music absorbs everything from
nineteen-twenties neoclassicism to blue-grass and modern indie pop,
with potent melodies bridging the disparate styles… He brings to mind
Sinatra in his wee-small-hours mood."
–
The New Yorker
Armed with astounding technical virtuosity and a
rare gift for composition, singer, pianist and composer Gabriel Kahane
is at the forefront of a generation of musicians who find their
voices, outlets and audiences in unexpected and exciting places. On the heels of his Lincoln Center debut, Kahane brings his “music for the ears, the intellect and the soul” (Prefix
Magazine) to the Southern Theater by way of For the Union Dead, a song cycle on poems by Robert Lowell, written specifically for yMusic.
The collective of conservatory-trained performers of yMusic
find common space in the often overlapping classical and pop music
worlds.
In addition to accompanying Kahane in For the Union Dead, yMusic will play new works by Shara Worden, Son Lux, and New Amsterdam Records founders Judd Greenstein and Sarah Kirkland Snider, as well as instrumental arrangements by collaborators Sufjan Stevens and Ryuichi Sakamoto.
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