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Caroline Shaw
Image credit: © Kait Moreno

Caroline Shaw and Gabriel Kahane
Caroline Shaw composer, singer; Gabriel Kahane composer, singer, piano; Siglo de Oro
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Date
Sat 08 Mar 2025, 7.30pm
Tickets
£40 £36 £32 £26 £18
Duration

This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval

Availability

Ticket bookings are subject to a £4.00 booking fee. This fee covers the whole booking and is not per ticket

Artists

  • Caroline Shawcomposer, singer
  • Gabriel Kahane composer, singer, piano
  • Siglo de Oro

    Programme

    Programme to include:
        • Fly Away I
        • and the swallow
        • Dolce Cantavi
        • How to fold the wind
    1. Commissioned by Newman Center for the Performing Arts, San Francisco Performances, University Musical Society, Duke Arts, Philharmonie de Paris, Philharmonic Society of Orange County, Wigmore Hall, and the Oregon Symphony.

    Overview

    Collaboration has always been close to Caroline Shaw’s heart, whether as performer or composer. She connects here with pioneering vocal ensemble Siglo de Oro and her fellow composer, singer-songwriter and storyteller Gabriel Kahane.


    Hexagons is a new work, co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall, inspired by the magical realism of Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges’s 1939 short story, 'The Library of Babel'. In this enigmatic narrative, Borges conjures a captivating and perplexing universe where the notion of infinity collides with the fragility of human understanding. Randomly arranged books fill the Library of Babel’s infinite expanse of interlocking hexagonal rooms, encompassing all knowledge that currently exists or may exist in the future while paradoxically offering no true enlightenment. Shaw and Kahane invite audiences to contemplate the joy, grief, wonder, and bewilderment that spring from a life oversaturated in information.

    Booking Information

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    Composer in Residence is supported by Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne

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