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NEWSLETTER
The latest from "Words & Music," Gabriel's substack newsletter. Read and subscribe here.
PROSE
“A Love Letter to Music Listings”The Atlantic, July 2025
“How The Amtrak Dining Car Could Heal the Nation”The New York Times, November 2017
“Learning to Look at L.A.”The New Yorker, June 2014
PRESS
Andrew Marantz, Almanac, October 2024
“Credible Journey”Nate Chinen, Almanac, October 2024
"Pekka Kuusisto & Gabriel Kahane: a master class on post-genre creation..."Kieran Welch, Limelight, August 2024
"Council: Pekka Kuusisto & Gabriel Kahane"Bill Stevens, Australian Arts Review, August 2024
"Gabriel Kahane straddles musical worlds with elegant ease"Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle, January 2024
"S.F. Symphony, Gabriel Kahane address the housing crisis and inequality in the U.S"Lisa Hirsch, San Francisco Chronicle, February 2023
“In a luminous new song cycle, Gabriel Kahane explores the world of COVID isolation”Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle, March 2022
“Kahane’s emergency shelter gets a brilliant Midwest premiere”Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune, July 2019
“Strangers on a Train: Gabriel Kahane’s Wrenching Book of Travelers”Alex Ross, The New Yorker, January 2019
“Gabriel Kahane’s ‘Book of Travelers’ works its magic in live rendition”Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle, January 2019
“How Gabriel Kahane’s Travels Inspired An Album of Empathy”Ari Shapiro, NPR: All Things Considered, August 2018
“Gabriel Kahane Sings Lieder, Both Old and New”Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle, March 2017
Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, The New York Times, April 2016
“Musical Virtuoso Gabriel Kahane Puts On A Stunning Show in Glasgow”Paul English, Daily Record, March 2016
“Gabriel Kahane, Brooklyn Rider Continue Their Moving Ride”Matthew Guerrieri, The Boston Globe, February 2016
“In Gabriel Kahane’s The Fiction Issue, Timelessness and Sept. 11”Nate Chinen, The New York Times, February 2016
“An Unforgettable Trip Through L.A. from its Ambassador”Josef Woodard, L.A. Times, March 2015
“Guided By Voices”Alex Ross, The New Yorker, January 2015
“The Real Estate of Atmospheric Songs”Ben Brantley, The New York Times, December 2014 (Critic’s Pick)
“Gabriel Kahane’s Music Syntheses Make Classical Music Jaunty, and No One Seems to Mind”Anne Midgette, Washington Post, April 2013
“Traveling 48 States, by Orchestra”William Robin, The New York Times, April 2013
“Gabriel Kahane Is A One-Man Cultural Cuisinart”Zachary Woolfe, The New York Times Magazine, April 2012
“Gabriel Kahane: Where Are the Arms”Jon Stone, American Songwriter, September 2011
“Tied to a Time and Place, but Not a Single Style”Steve Smith, The New York Times, March 2010