Ruth Leon recommends… Gabriel Kahane – Magnificent Bird – Phillips Collection
Ruth Leon recommendsGabriel Kahane – Magnificent Bird – Phillips Collection
Click here to register – livestream tickets are $15.
Ticket holders will be able to watch this performance “On Demand” for 48 hours following the broadcast time
In the fall of 2019, singer-songwriter Gabriel Kahane embarked on a year-long hiatus from the internet in order to better understand our increasingly fraught relationship to technology.
His intimate and achingly vulnerable solo performance, Magnificent Bird, is the culmination not only of that experiment, but of years of inquiry into the impact of machines on the human spirit. By turns irreverent and elegiac, Kahane’s marriage of story and song guides us through his digital sabbatical, and the interlocking crises—a pandemic, global protests, natural disasters, and a contentious presidential election—which intersected with his return to analogue life.
In sum, Magnificent Bird is a rhapsodic, novelistic, and spellbinding cry from the heart: for all the wonders of the digital age, it is only the living who are capable of love.
This event will be broadcast live from the Music Room of the Phillips Collection in Washington DC on Sunday, January 22 at 4 PM ET (9pm UK).
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