Photo Credit: E. F. Marton Productions

The Knights at Carnegie Hall with Jeffrey Kahane, Colin Jacobsen, Karen Ouzounian, and special guest Gabriel Kahane

This program came about through deep familial relationships and friendships that have yielded profoundly personal and compelling music. Gabriel Kahane's Heirloom, a new piano concerto written for his father, the renowned pianist Jeffrey Kahane, channels numerous themes of cross-generational and cross-cultural musical inspiration; from a paternal grandmother escaping the Holocaust in 1938 ("My Grandmother Knew Alban Berg”), to the tension between classical and popular music forms ("Guitars in the Attic"), to the wonder of seeing the world through the eyes of his young daughter ("Vera's Chicken-Powered Transit Machine").

Kahane’s Heirloom and selected songs are paired with Mozart's “Paris” Symphony, written during a time of great familial upheaval and difficulty, and two gorgeous contemporary works for solo strings and orchestra by Anna Clyne and Jessie Montgomery.

Program:

Jessie Montgomery, orch. Michi Wiancko Rhapsody No. 2 featuring Colin Jacobsen, violin (World Premiere)

Gabriel Kahane Heirloom featuring Jeffrey Kahane, piano (NY Premiere)

Gabriel Kahane Where are the Arms featuring Gabriel Kahane, vocals & Jeffrey Kahane, piano

Anna Clyne Shorthand featuring Karen Ouzounian, cello (NY Premiere)

W.A. Mozart Symphony No. 31 in D major, "Paris"

The Knights thank Gary L. Wasserman and Charles A. Kashner for their generous sponsorship support of the 2023/24 Knights Concert Series at Carnegie Hall.