Opera News: Critic’s Choice: “deeply affecting and innovatively conceived”
“The Most Relevant, Hauntingly Evocative New Chamber Opera in Years” (Lucid Culture/New York Music Daily)
“45-minute searing sung drama” (Washington Post)
“Unmissable” (The New York Observer).
"Kander and Gumbel's greatest achievement is to pierce the noise and frenzy of the 24/7 news cycle
and shed light on what it is to be Black in twenty-first century America." (seenandheard-international)
dwb (driving while black)
From Albany Records
Stream on Spotify or your favorite digital platform.
In 2019, two concert performances in Kansas City earned it
Best of Kansas City: Theater Award, 2019
(The Pitch: Kansas City’s Arts and Culture Newspaper)
“In pinpointing and relating the terror racial biases and injustices cause, Kander and Gumbel
created one of the most singularly devastating theatrical moments of the last year.”
Recordings
dwb (driving while black)
Music by Susan Kander, libretto by Roberta GumbelAlbany Records [TROY1858]
Original Cast Recording: Roberta Gumbel, soprano, and New Morse Code : Hannah Collins, cello, and Michael Compitello, percussion
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MSR Classics [MS 1578]Performed by: Jacob Ashworth, violin & viola; Lee Dionne, piano; Jessica Petrus, soprano.
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Overheard
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Susan Kander: Five Movements for my Father
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Eric Bartlett, cello; Thomas Schmidt, piano.
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