Orpheus at Galapagos

Gabriel Kahane, Curator and Composer-In-Residence

Experience Orpheus as you've never heard it before:

Out of the box. From Kahane to Copland, open your ears to new sounds and classics in new contexts.

Up close and personal. Enjoy the intimacy of chamber music with a drink in hand at Galapagos, an Obie Award-winning, 250-seat venue featuring an indoor lake, full bar, and concert hall acoustics.

Across the bridge. Just steps from Grimaldi's Pizzeria and the charms of DUMBO and Brooklyn Heights, Galapagos is located at 16 Main Street, at the corner of Main Street and Water Street. Click here to learn more.

Tickets at just $20. That's right, tickets start at $20 with premier seats at $35. Tickets are limited, so buy now.

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(718) 222-8500 | boxoffice@galapagosartspace.com

About Gabriel Kahane
Writing and performing music that moves effortlessly from dense modernism to vernacular song, Gabriel Kahane has established himself as a leading voice among a generation of young composers redefining music for the 21st century. Hailed by the Los Angeles Times for “an all around dazzling performance” in his orchestral debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic earlier this year, Kahane’s collaborations have included sold-out concerts with artists as varied as Chris Thile and Brad Mehldau, Alisa Weilerstein, and his father–noted pianist and conductor Jeffrey Kahane–as well as Sufjan Stevens, Rufus Wainwright, and Audra McDonald. For more information, visit http://gabrielkahane.tumblr.com.

The Residency of Gabriel Kahane is made possible through Music Alive, a residency program of the League of American Orchestras and New Music USA. This national program is designed to provide orchestras with resources and tools to support their presentation of new music to the public and build support for new music within their institutions. Funding for Music Alive is provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, and The ASCAP Foundation.

New this season, Orpheus teams up with Music Alive Composer-in-Residence Gabriel Kahane for two concerts at Galapagos Art Space in DUMBO, Brooklyn. Kahane joins Orpheus as composer, curator, and performer–fusing chamber music, art song, and indie rock into a musical language all his own.

Sunday, March 18, 2012
at 8:00 pm

Galapagos Art Space
Brooklyn, NY

Sunday, March 18, 2012
Featuring Chris Thile, mandolin

JOHN ADAMS Selections from John’s Book of Alleged Dances
THILE (arr.) Fiddle Tunes
COPLAND Appalachian Spring Suite (original version)

Witness a collage of Americana interpreted by two of our foremost composers, John Adams and Aaron Copland, and bluegrass phenomenon Chris Thile (who performs his Mandolin Concerto with Orpheus at Carnegie Hall on March 24). Thile's inventive take on traditional fiddle tunes will be interspersed with movements from Adams' quirky and bittersweet Alleged Dances. We conclude with Copland's Appalachian Spring Suite in its original version for 13 players, a masterwork infused with homespun beauty that continues to define the American sound.

PAST CONCERT

Gabriel Kahane

Sunday, November 20, 2011
Featuring Gabriel Kahane, voice, piano, and guitar

HINDEMITH Kammermusik No. 1
KAHANE Orinoco Sketches (New York Premiere)
KAHANE Songs from Where Are the Arms

Orpheus presents music inspired by the rhythms of a world in flux. Hindemith’s wry and raucous Kammermusik No. 1 put the young composer on the map in 1921, before he fled his native Germany. Receiving its New York premiere this evening, Kahane’s Orinoco Sketches for chamber orchestra and voice draws from the diary of another figure who fled Nazi Germany–the composer’s grandmother, whose journey took her to Los Angeles via Havana. The program concludes with selections from Kahane’s brand new album, Where Are the Arms–songs that are hauntingly beautiful, “sinewy and direct, elevating common-place subjects with intricate arrangements (Brooklyn Vegan).”