My dad’s a music director, my mom a psychologist
Daily Comfort ZoneThe latest interviewee on David Krauss’ Speaking Soundly is the composer, singer, songwriter, and sonic storyteller Gabriel Kahane. He’s the son of Jeffrey Kahane, music director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra for 20 years; his mother is a psychologist, so he keeps turning questions into bigger questions.
Kahane composes songs, musicals, albums. He describes himself as a storyteller. He thinks opera ‘should be funnier than it is.
So true.
Listen here.
“All The Things You Could Be By Now If Sigmund Freud’s Wife Was Your Mother”, by Charles Mingus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ULNddTHas0
He needs to study the operas of Cimarosa and Pergolesi they’re really funny.