Gabriel Kahane Interview: Heirloom, Songwriting, and Creative Practice — Composer, songwriter, writer and storyteller Gabriel Kahane joins Leah Roseman on Conversations with Musicians. Hear excerpts from Heirloom, Book of Travelers, and Magnificent Bird, plus insights on songwriting, conducting, theatre training, his upcoming book, and creating socially engaged music. This transcript is linked to the podcast and video version of this interview.

This is the transcript of my interview with Jean Rohe, and the podcast and video versions are linked here. Jean is an acclaimed song-writer and singer, as well as a devoted  mentor, working with incarcerated song-writers,as well as at the New School and privately. She writes powerful narrative songs, and is widely known for her National Anthem:  Arise! Arise! an aspirational alternative which has been performed extensively across the US. She shared with me her perspectives on love, grief, identity, community and creativity.   One of her beautiful collaborations is the wonderful album Beautalina with the band Eureka Shoes, with Skye Soto Steele,  Charlie Burnham and Rashaan Carter. We are featuring music from that project as well as with  Robinson & Rohe.