大象传媒 Concert Orchestra 2023-2024 Southbank Centre Season Stories from the Streets of America
Stories from the Streets of America
19:30
Thu 18 Jan 2024
Queen Elizabeth Hall
From West Side Story to Biden鈥檚 America: Kwam茅 Ryan shares the USA鈥檚 untold stories, including the UK premiere of Gabriel Kahane鈥檚 extraordinary emergency shelter intake form.
From West Side Story to Biden鈥檚 America: Kwam茅 Ryan shares the USA鈥檚 untold stories, including the UK premiere of Gabriel Kahane鈥檚 extraordinary emergency shelter intake form.
What brings you here? Have you ever been evicted? Have you ever been denied a lease or loan? The American composer Gabriel Kahane didn鈥檛 have any answers until he started talking to the homeless of contemporary America. emergency shelter intake form is his response. Oratorio meets opera meets musical theatre in this UK premiere by the 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra.
The classical tradition collides with the voices - and the lived experience - of homeless people and the result is passionate, direct and startlingly sincere.
Conductor Kwam茅 Ryan opens with two more American cityscapes: West Side Story is as thrilling now as it was in 1957, but the tragedy at its heart is as raw, and as real, as ever.
