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Gabriel Kahane's 'Orinoco Sketches,' in a New York premiere, highlights his paradoxical position :

A preview of the New York premiere of Gabriel Kahane's Orinoco Sketches with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.

Bio: Daniel J. Kushner is an arts journalist and music critic whose work has been published in Opera News, NewMusicBox, Symphony, The Brooklyn Rail, and elsewhere. He is Classical Music & Opera Editor at ArtsAmerica.org, blogs regularly for The Huffington Post, and hosts his own blog, You're So Post-Post-Rock Right Now.

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Gabriel Kahane's 'Orinoco Sketches,' in a New York premiere, highlights his paradoxical position

While Kahane's music seems to be constantly hosting a dialogue between the academic and the vernacular, the distant past and the immediate present, his classical background and his pop leanings, engaging with the work requires the listener to willfully ignore the expectations that so often accompany one medium or the other. More

Posted on November 20th, 2011 12:00pm