Organization

Conductor

Kwamé Ryan

Singer

Soprano

Alicia Hall Moran

Maria

Mezzo-soprano

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BBC Concert Orchestra

Southbank Centre

BBC Concert Orchestra: Streets of America

London

United Kingdom

Queen Elizabeth Hall

BBC Concert Orchestra: Streets of America: Poster

Public

West Side Story

Skyline from City Scape

emergency shelter intake form

Approved

South Bank Centre

What brings you here? Have you ever been evicted? Have you ever been denied a lease or loan? The American composer Gabriel Kahane didn’t have any answers until he started talking to the homeless of contemporary America.

emergency shelter intake form is his response: a very modern oratorio, performed for the first time in the UK by the BBC Concert Orchestra in collaboration with the community chorus of Streetwise Opera.

The classical tradition collides with the voices – and the lived experience – of homeless people and the result is passionate, direct and startlingly sincere.

Conductor Kwamé Ryan opens with two more American cityscapes: West Side Story is as thrilling now as it was in 1957, but the tragedy at its heart is as raw, and as real, as ever.

English

BBC Concert Orchestra: Streets of America by Bernstein, Higdon, Kahane, From (2024/2024), Conductor Kwamé Ryan, South Bank Centre, London, United Kingdom

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