The short song "Little Love" by @gabrielkahane.bsky.social is a beautiful vision of aging and dying, suffused with love and hope. 🥹 youtu.be/G9F4XAZN78k?...
Little Love
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Gabriel Kahane
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Words & Music | gabrielkahane.substack.com | Magnificent Bird out now on Nonesuch | gabrielkahane.bandcamp.com | Creative Chair, Oregon Symphony | Portland, OR
I wrote about my kids’ imaginary restaurant, and what it has taught me about the value of play in our lives as artists. gabrielkahane.substack.com/p/garden-noo...
Garden Noodles
Life lessons from the junior proprietors of an imaginary restaurant
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Roses are redde Noble are the manatees For a bettir future Teach artes and humanityes
Concert will be streaming via BBC for the next 55 days, I believe! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
BBC Proms - 2026 - Copland and Stravinsky - BBC Sounds
Live at the BBC Proms: BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Ryan Bancroft.
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Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 4w agoAbsolutely amazing new piece by Gabriel Kahane performed by Anthony McGill at tonight’s Prom.
Ahoy! Single tickets are now on sale for the Carnegie Hall premiere of 'Every love song is a protest' (2/9), as well as warm-up previews at Groton Hill Music Center (2/5) and The Local in Saugerties (2/6), plus Duke Arts @ Motorco (2/18). Get involved! gabrielkahane.com/where.html
GABRIEL KAHANE
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Nick Black@fuzzynick.bsky.social · 2mo agoOne of my favourite records of the century so far. Might not be for everyone but some of you would really, REALLY love it. For a taste, try 'Empire Liquor Mart', start to end, 9 glorious, heartbreaking, soul-soaring minutes: youtu.be/be3pYcJVnJY #amplaying #music @gabrielkahane.bsky.social
I’m turning 45 in a couple weeks and decided to play a little show. There will be special guests. A dozen-and-a-half tickets remain. Get involved, Portland! strumpdx.com/gabriel-kaha...
Composer @gabrielkahane.bsky.social and a cappella group Roomful Of Teeth have shared a new edit of "Put It In My Valise" from 'Elevator Songs,' their concept album about an interdimensional hotel. It's a cheeky highlight from one of the best, most ambitious albums of the year:
Gabriel Kahane & Roomful Of Teeth's Elevator Songs Is A Stirring Visit To An Interdimensional Hotel
Few albums this year have made a stronger impression on me than Elevator Songs, a collaboration between the composer and singer-songwriter Gabriel Kahane and the a cappella group Roomful Of Teeth. It’...
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song of summer? song for those who are perennially capsule wardrobed? who haunt r/onebag? whose tushy is literally freezing bc they would rather suffer than wear a dowdy sweatshirt on that over-air-conditioned redeye en route to fashion week in milan? gabrielkahane.bandcamp.com/track/put-it...
Foods I've written songs about: Hot Dogs Potatoes (Dirty) Horchata Pasta Breakfast Sandwiches Arby's Protein Bowls (Waffle House) Cold Brew (also Waffle House) Salad Pizza Peanuts (Mr. Peanut) Sandwich Relish (super spicy)
Security? Security? There’s a disturbance in aisle two… Music: me Text: Daniel Falatko
calling it now: it’s gonna be a merguez summer. or possibly blood sausage.
Anne Carson once memorably described her process to me as “form and content groping each in the dark.” But what does that actually mean? gabrielkahane.substack.com/p/honest-son...
Is Phoebe Bridgers’ phone policy ableist? Have you noticed how bland fruit and vegetable taste recently? music: me text: Inigo Laguda
Pluribus except it's about everyone you know over the age of 50 getting hacked after opening that DEAR FRIENDS & FAMILY [INVITATION] email hoax
As the descendant of Holocaust survivors, I did not have "being accused of trafficking in antisemitic tropes" on my 2026 bingo card. Anyway, here's an essay I wrote about Mark Mazower's excellent book, 'Antisemitism: A Word in History." gabrielkahane.substack.com/p/the-bibi-w...
The Bibi Who Cried Wolf
how a freighted word became a powerful smokescreen
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I’m working on a new orchestral song cycle, which means that I’m spending a lot of time procrastinating, which means that I wrote an essay about the ways in which I procrastinate when I’m supposed to be writing music. gabrielkahane.substack.com/p/form-and-c...
form and content, groping each other in the dark
creative toil as dissent in the age of AI
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"The associative state does not punch a time card. It shows up when it wants to, and you have to be there when it crosses the threshold of your dreamworld office." gabrielkahane.substack.com/p/form-and-c...
form and content, groping each other in the dark
creative toil as dissent in the age of AI
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Very much looking forward to this conversation with the great @natechinen.bsky.social next week. Be there or be snapping on the 1 and the 3. gabrielkahane.substack.com
RIP Waffle House, RIP USA. 🧇🇺🇸🪦 text by Prester John Andrews music by me
Gandhi teaches us to reject violence in word, thought, and deed. What is the world we’re trying to create in which we indulge in ad hominem, lookist attacks against the architect of the cruelest domestic policy since Jim Crow? Oughtn’t confronting him on the merits be enough?
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 4mo agoMeiselas: Katie Miller has been posting about you. I want to give you the opportunity right now to respond. What do you want to say to her? Paulina Mangubat, Content and Creative Director for @TheDemocrats: I want Katie Miller to know that her husband is an ugly fuck.
Thanks to Hallie Bateman for making these nifty badges. As AI slop becomes increasingly prevalent, you can rest assured that I would sooner endure daily root canals than allow an LLM within a mile of my newsletter. gabrielkahane.substack.com
Unquestionably my finest performance of Tchaikovsky 5.
Thinking of doing a rewrite of Naomi Klein’s ‘Doppelgänger’ except it’s about me and Noah Kahan.
“What prevents consumers from paying musicians for their labor is not the capture of the industry by dirty money, but rather, sheer entitlement: that is, the belief that frictionless access to all music at all times is a right.” gabrielkahane.substack.com/p/streaming-...
streaming & crying: a polemic
You cannot claim to be pro-labor and stream music
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Super proud of my father, Jeffrey Kahane, for going absolute beast mode in starting his own orchestra at the age of sixty-nine. First season to include Emanuel Ax, Joshua Bell, Tessa Lark, & Jeneba Kaneh-Mason; 1/2
“I have a number of friends who expend a great deal of emotional energy being pissed off at Taylor Swift and the people who love her. But as I age, I just don’t have the energy to get exercised about the monoculture. 1/2