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91Èȱ¬ Concert Orchestra
18 Jan 2024, Southbank Centre, London
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91Èȱ¬ Concert Orchestra 2023-2024 Southbank Centre Season Stories from the Streets of America

91Èȱ¬ Concert Orchestra
Stories from the Streets of America
19:30 Thu 18 Jan 2024 Queen Elizabeth Hall
From West Side Story to Biden’s America: Kwamé Ryan shares the USA’s untold stories, including the UK premiere of Gabriel Kahane’s extraordinary emergency shelter intake form.
From West Side Story to Biden’s America: Kwamé Ryan shares the USA’s untold stories, including the UK premiere of Gabriel Kahane’s extraordinary emergency shelter intake form.

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What brings you here? Have you ever been evicted? Have you ever been denied a lease or loan? The American composer Gabriel Kahane didn’t 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 91Èȱ¬ 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 Kwamé 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.