SF Performances Presents Nicholas Phan, tenor & Gabriel Kahane, piano

This concert orbits the world premiere of Gabriel Kahane’s Final Privacy Song, a setting of a new text which finds its author—the acclaimed poet Matthew Zapruder—grappling with our ever-shifting relationships to nature and technology. Tracing these themes from present to past and back again, the program juxtaposes Kahane's music with a selection of Schubert songs: prophetic miniatures that chronicle the earth's beauty, its divinity, and the sublime terror—found in nature—that brings us closer to an understanding of the human condition.