Every Love Song Is a Protest

Love transcends political division and darkness in a timely new song cycle by Gabriel Kahane, “one of the finest, most searching songwriters of the day” (The New Yorker), who was dubbed a “one-man cultural Cuisinart” (The New York Times) after his Carnegie Hall debut. In this solo program co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall, Kahane interweaves a pocket history of civil resistance and nonviolent protest—drawing inspiration from Sojourner Truth, Vaclav Havel, Martin Luther King Jr., the songs of the 1960s, and more—with a set of new tunes animated by a sincere belief in the power of love and our inescapable interconnectedness.