Letters to My Daughters: Josh Halpern & Yannick Rafalimanana
Thu, Oct 01
|Pine Street Church
When composer Scott Ordway sought to explain a frightening world to his young daughters, he wrote them five real letters. The music that grew from them—alongside Debussy, Bernstein, and songs smuggled out of Theresienstadt—returns to the stage where it debuted, before it becomes a studio album.
Time & Location
Oct 01, 2026, 7:00 PM
Pine Street Church, 1237 Pine St, Boulder, CO 80302, USA
About the event
Letters to My Daughters received its world premiere on the Cultural Caravan stage in June of 2025. Now—ahead of a studio recording for upcoming album release—Josh Halpern brings this special commission back to the Caravan’s stage with his longtime musical collaborator and a Cultural Caravan alum, pianist Yannick Rafalimanana.
Josh first met with composer Scott Ordway to discuss this project in November 2024. Like so many, Scott was reckoning with the uncertainty of the world—in particular, how to discuss it with his two daughters, four and seven at the time. Their collaboration began to take shape as a love letter, time capsule, and urgent appeal to decency for his girls.
Scott began by writing five real letters—and generously allowed Josh to serve as his editor. They shared long calls and essayistic email threads, and their questions increasingly led them away from defensiveness and toward kindness, generosity, and humility: Can we experience…
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