Featured Performers

• Caroline Shaw, Artistic Director
• Gabriel Kahane

Program

• SHAW & KAHANE: Hexagons
  (Commissioned by Newman Center for the Performing Arts, San Francisco Performances, University Musical Society, Duke University, Philharmonie de Paris, Philharmonic Society of Orange County, Wigmore Hall, and the Patricia Reser Center for the Arts)

• Other works to be announced

After more than a decade of musical friendship, composer-performers Caroline Shaw and Gabriel Kahane embark on their first large-scale collaboration, orbiting a new work inspired by Jorge Luis Borges’ story, “The Library of Babel.” In this jointly-written song cycle, Shaw and Kahane invite audiences to contemplate the joy, grief, wonder, and bewilderment that spring from life in a world oversaturated with information. 

**Please note that this concert has changed from its original listing in our 2024/25 Season Brochure.

Sponsors

FESTIVAL UNDERWRITER

Jelinek Family Trust

CONCERT SPONSOR

City of Laguna Beach