Interval 4.1 Gabriel Kahane interviewed

PART III: In this third and final installment: a composer's and an audience's dialogue with the past and present.[youtube id="z20B-AQYlMA"]PART II: Kahane talks about his own music and the newly-composed works he will premiere on November 17th, at Issue Project Room. What binds these nine very stylistically-different composers he chose to commission?[youtube id="eqNLGJ5mV00"]PART I: Kahane discusses his upcoming curatorship of MATA's Interval 4.1 at Brooklyn's Issue Project Room with MATA Artistic Director Yotam Haber. We discuss his programming choices: Schumann's Dichterliebe cycle along with world premiere from ten young composers. We touch on issues such as pop music, 80s power ballads, distinctions between highbrow and lowbrow music, and his own music's relationship to the past.[youtube id="bppWh60fCrs"]