A homeless questionnaire set to music becomes an appeal to humanity in Kahane’s oratorio.
Fri. 11.9.2026
19:30, Beethovenhalle, Great Hall
Gabriel Kahane & Beethoven Orchester Bonn
- Orchestra, Vocal
- € 69 / 59 / 49 / 39 / 29 / 19
Gabriel Kahane © Jason Quigley 
Dirk Kaftan & Beethoven Orchester Bonn © Thomas Frey 
Eliza Bagg © Tonje Thielson 
Alicia Hall Moran © Thais Aquino 
Steven Bradshaw © Elisa Sutherland 
© Christian Palm
Contributors
- Beethoven Orchester Bonn
- Philharmonic Choir Bonn
- Eliza Bagg soprano
- Alicia Hall Moran mezzo soprano
- Steven Bradshaw tenor
- Gabriel Kahane baritone
- Paul Krämer choir master
- Dirk Kaftan conductor
Programme
Gabriel Kahane
emergency shelter intake form for four singers, community choir and orchestra (German premiere)
Antonín Dvořák
Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, op. 95 »From the New World«
The concert at a glance
What can I expect?
What does it sound like?
Pre-concert talk
18:45, Great Hall: Pre-concert talk (in German)
Today at the Festival Salon
Opening hours: 16:00–23:00
18:00 Happy Hour – with everything that makes you happy
19:00–20:30 Meet Your Hobby – with recreational groups of all kinds
21:30–22:30 Listening Session – with Rebekka Salomea
Description
Without a home: in his music, Gabriel Kahane shows what happens when cold administrative decisions collide with human destinies. Out of the stilted official language of an emergency shelter questionnaire for the homeless, he creates a haunting oratorio on inequality – at once sad and funny, terse and angry. Kahane’s American musical language combining pop, classical, and minimal music meets Dvořák’s impressions of the USA around 1900, captured in his famous Ninth Symphony.