Elizabeth Kahn Memorial Concert

Presented by Chamber Music Raleigh featuring the
Mallarmé Chamber Players

Daughter of a New York music critic, the late Paul Affelder, Elizabeth Kahn led a charmed life growing up attending any and all concerts, operas and theater free ​in critics’ seats. She majored in voice and piano at Brandeis University and continued at Brandeis as a graduate student in musicology. She transferred to Harvard University, where she received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, studying the relationship between music and text. Over the last 30 years she has worked with many non-profit organizations in the area, especially Chamber Music Raleigh and Arts Access. She and her husband, Joe, owned Word Pros, a concert program note service. Joe Kahn, pictured above with Elizabeth, marks his 50th year supporting Chamber Music Raleigh and will present a eulogy at the start of the program. The program was in part chosen by Elizabeth during her brief illness last Fall. Mallarme mourns the loss of Elizabeth and honors her service to the arts in North Carolina.