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On a given weekend, you might find Gabriel Kahane performing a piano sonata in a concert hall … or stumble upon him at a bar, playing with a rock band. He composes classical music for chamber groups and orchestras — plus he's just written a 1940s era musical which combines ...

Video: “Charming Disease” live in the studio

On a given weekend, you might find Gabriel Kahane performing a piano sonata in a concert hall ... or stumble upon him at a bar, playing with a rock band. He composes classical music for chamber groups and orchestras — but he also writes and sings his own indie pop songs. These days, those two worlds ...

Video: “Charming Disease” live in the studio

Gabriel Kahane is a singer and songwriter who is equally at home in the worlds of contemporary classical music and indie rock.  The man who once created a very weird song cycle out of Craigslist postings has a new album and joins us for a live performance.

Jeffrey Kahane is a globe-trotting concert pianist and conductor of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and the Colorado Symphony Orchestra. His son, Gabriel Kahane, is a singer-songwriter whose music blends classical and rock traditions. The two exist in largely separate musical universes but this weekend at Lincoln Center, dad will ...

Singer-songwriter Gabriel Kahane is part of a new generation of art-song composers whose music defies easy classification. On his self-titled debut album, due out this fall, he writes wry observational songs that incorporate the sounds of string quartets, folk, brass chorales and jangly piano pop. He joins us to perform ...