Kronos Quartet at Miner Auditorium, February 3, 2017
Tentative Program
Kronos will perform works by Parks, Terry Riley, Hamza El Din, Aleksandra Vrebalov, Dan Becker, Lyuh, and Mohammad-Reza Shajarian & Kayhan Kalhor
Set One
[7:35 PM lights down, announcements from Janet Cowperthwaite and David Harrington]
[7:39 PM] Aleksandra Vrebalov: My Desert, My Rose (performed by the Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts’ Dragon String Quartet)
[work ends 7:47 PM]
[pause for DSQ to exit and Kronos to enter]
[7:49 PM comments from David Harrington]
[7:51 PM] Mohammad Reza Shajarian & Kayhan Kalhor (arr. Sahba Aminikia): Rain
[work ends 7:59 PM]
[8:00 PM David Harrington introduces Terry Riley]
[8:02 PM] Terry Riley: The Autodaydreamographical Anteriopod (1996); featuring Terry Riley: recitation
[8:09 PM] Terry Riley: The Serquent Risadome (2014; SF Bay Area premiere)
[work ends 8:21 PM]
[8:22 PM David Harrington talks briefly about Hamza El Din]
[8:23 PM] Hamza El Din (realized by Tohru Ueda): Escalay (Water Wheel)
[8:33 PM David Harrington introduces Soo Yeon Lyuh]
[8:35 PM] Soo Yeon Lyuh: Yessori (Sound from the Past) (World premiere); featuring special guest Soo Yeon Lyuh: haegeum and korean gong
[set ends 8:46 PM, all off after a minute or two]
Set Two
[9:06 PM lights down, band out with Van Dyke Parks]
Van Dyke Parks: A Coney Island of the Mind
Van Dyke Parks: A Coney Island of the Mind (Excerpts; World premiere), based on poetry by Lawrence Ferlinghetti; with special guest Van Dyke Parks, narrator
[9:07 PM] Goya
[9:11 PM] Straits of Demos
[9:16 PM] I Am Waiting
[work ends 9:25 PM]
[9:26 PM David Harrington introduces the next piece]
[9:28 PM] Dan Becker: Carrying the Past
[set ends 9:41 PM]
Encore
[9:43 PM David Harrington announces the final piece]
[9:44 PM] Terry Riley: One Earth, One People, One Love (Tenth and final movement of Sun Rings, 2002)
[show ends 9:53 PM]
Kronos Quartet
Guests
the Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts’ Dragon String Quartet
Christine Blair: cello;
Theo Haber: violin;
Kana Luzmoor: violin;
Laila Zaidi: viola.
Notes
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Rebecca Wishnia posted a review of the gig at SFCV.
Program Notes