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Gabriel Kahane Interview: Heirloom, Songwriting, and Creative Practice
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- Jan 3, 2026
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Summary
I’m honoured to bring to you this in-depth conversation with the brilliant musician, writer, composer and storyteller Gabriel Kahane as my first episode of Season 6 of this podcast. You’ll be hearing many short clips from several of his albums including his piano concerto Heirloom, written for his father Jeffrey Kahane. This is a wide-ranging interview and you’ll hear about Gabriel’s upcoming book project, the impact of his early theatre training, how learning to conduct is helping him as a composer, and reflections from his hiatus from the internet and social media. Fans who love Book of Travelers and Magnificent Bird will hear clips and insights from those projects and we also got into his work as an artist-citizen in his large-scale work “emergency shelter intake form” commissioned by the Oregon Symphony about homelessness and the housing crisis. The track and album names are specified in the timestamps and everything is linked in the show notes, including other suggested episodes and ways to support this independent podcast: Complete Show Notes Gabriel Kahane Website 00:00) Intro (02:25) Book of Travelers, train trip, American Guide Series, Baedeker with clip from Book of Travelers (08:19) Book of Travelers, Pattern of the Rail, November with clip (10:45) Book of Travelers, arranging songs for ensembles, clip of Model Trains (16:24) train trip, more stories (19:20) piano concerto Heirloom, decimated press landscape, clip of beginning of first movement “Guitars in the Attic”, Heirloom piano concerto (22:58) Jeffrey Kahane, Heirloom bringing vernacular music into the concert hall with clip of first movement “Guitars in the Attic”, Heirloom piano concerto which uses Where Are the Arms (29:24) orchestration of Where Are the Arms and how it relates to the concerto with…