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. Oratorio meets opera meets musical theatre in this UK premiere by the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Concert Orchestra.
The classical tradition collides with the voices - and the lived experience - of homeless people and the result is passionate, direct and startlingly sincere.