HeyJaredGabriel Kahane: Words & Music
Writings at the intersection of music, literature, and politics
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Garden Noodles (opens the original)
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My children run a restaurant in our backyard. The restaurant is called Garden Noodles. Its handwritten menu, chockablock with endearing misspellings, is scrawled on a sandwich board a few paces from the outdoor mud kitchen, where the kids work with furrowed brows and unflagging concentration to turn out a range of specialities: acorn salads and technicolor chalk soup, canapés of Solomon’s seal leaves bestrewn with twigs and pebbles. So popular is Garden Noodles with the local clientele—which inc
london calling (opens the original)
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Hello, and greetings from London, where the heat has broken and my circadian rhythm has been properly ransacked. For all the sleepless nights, I can’t complain, having crossed the pond to attend this evening’s BBC Proms performance of If love will not swing wide the gates, the clarinet concerto I wrote in 2024 for Anthony McGill. Rehearsals were in Cardiff—the BBC National Orchestra of Wales will accompany Anthony, led by Ryan Bancroft—and it’s all been rather lovely. McGill and the band sound g
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