The Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, in partnership with Roof Above, will present Gabriel Kahane’s “emergency shelter intake form.”

The piece will be performed as the centerpiece of its season finale concert on May 15 & 16 at Knight Theater.

Conducted by Music Director Kwamé Ryan the performance will feature mezzo-soprano Alicia Hall Moran and also music by Copland and Higdon.

Commissioned by the Oregon Symphony in response to the growing housing crisis facing cities across the United States, “emergency shelter intake form” examines homelessness, displacement, and economic precarity through an oratorio-style work for voices and orchestra.

In collaboration with Roof Above, the Charlotte Symphony has assembled a local chorus whose participation grounds the performance in lived experience.

In a statement Ryan said, “Gabriel Kahane’s ’emergency shelter intake form’ is an  extraordinarily powerful work that asks us to confront the realities of housing insecurity with empathy and humanity. Those ideas become deeply personal through the voices of those in our community who have experienced these challenges firsthand.”