Performance - Music of Memory and Reconciliation

Our 2024-2025 season explores music that connects our common humanity to the world around us. This program grapples with generational legacies: how we deal with the past, come to terms with the present, and look to our future.

Celebrated singer/songwriter Gabriel Kahane joins as host, and sings with Orchestra Lumos in songs of his family’s flight from Europe to America during World War II. Their family salvation inspired Gabriel to write a piano concerto for his father, the renowned pianist Jeffrey Kahane, who will perform it with us.

This emotional concept unfolds with Franz Schubert’s glorious Symphony No. 2, and music by American composer Carlos Simon inspired by the exodus of Black American families from the South to the North during what we now call the Great Migration.

This will be a moving performance of memory and music.

Gabriel Kahane, host, vocal, piano, guitar
Jeffrey Kahane, piano
Michael Stern, conductor
Full Orchestra

Musical Program to include
Gustav Mahler Adagietto from Symphony No. 5, Strings and harp
Gabriel Kahane Heirloom, Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
Gabriel Kahane Three Songs
Where are the Arms
October 1, 1939/Port of Hamburg
Sit Shiva
Franz Schubert Symphony No. 2

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