Song of the Day: February 23

In category: Song of the Day

Published February 23, 2016

CaramoorThis week our curators of the Song of the Day blog are the Artistic Administration staff of the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts (our next concert, “At Home,” which will take place both at Caramoor and at Merkin Hall, features Caramoor’s 2016 Schwab Vocal Rising Stars). Caramoor’s Managing Director, Paul Rosenblum, brings us this selection:

Craigslistlieder are an intriguing and very diverting excursion into the creative mind of Gabriel Kahane, an amazing, but very unassuming musician, performer and composer. “Neurotic and Lonely” is my favorite song from this work, except perhaps for all of the others. To my ear, Gabe’s influences, reflected in this one song, include Hindemith, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Debussy and Gershwin.

neurotic and lonely – 20
Reply to: pers-134000159@craigslist.org Date: 2006-02-14, 9:45PM EST

average height, brown eyes (slightly disportionate), brown curly hair (jewfro), 20 y/o, slightly hunched, occasionally employed anthropologist, chainsmoking jew, currently living with parents, off from school to deal with emotional problems (medicated), seeks gorgeous artsy genius woman interested in philosophical discourse, making out, television, woody allen movies, thelonious monk, the nazis, chinese food, thomas pynchon, digestive disorders. must enjoy video games. must own a video game system. (my parents refuse to buy one for me) no ugg boots. no long island.

 

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