Kronos Festival: Here and Now presents Carrying the Past featuring the Kronos Quartet with special guests, the Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts’ Dragon String Quartet, Soo Yeon Lyuh, and Van Dyke Parks
Robert M. Miner Auditorium
SFJAZZ Center, 205 Franklin St, San Francisco, CA 94102 USA
7:30 PM, Friday, February 3, 2017

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Kronos will perform works by Parks, Terry Riley, Hamza El Din, Aleksandra Vrebalov, Dan Becker, Lyuh, and Mohammad-Reza Shajarian & Kayhan Kalhor

[7:35 PM lights down, announcements from Janet Cowperthwaite and David Harrington]

1. [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]
2. [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]
3. [8:02 PM] Terry Riley: The Autodaydreamographical Anteriopod (1996); featuring Terry Riley: recitation
4. [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]
5. [8:23 PM] Hamza El Din (realized by Tohru Ueda): Escalay (Water Wheel)
   [8:33 PM David Harrington introduces Soo Yeon Lyuh]
6. [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]

[9:06 PM lights down, band out with Van Dyke Parks]

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

1. [9:07 PM] Goya
2. [9:11 PM] Straits of Demos
3. [9:16 PM] I Am Waiting
   [work ends 9:25 PM]
   [9:26 PM David Harrington introduces the next piece]
4. [9:28 PM] Dan Becker: Carrying the Past
   [set ends 9:41 PM]
    
   Encore
   [9:43 PM David Harrington announces the final piece]
5. [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

• Hank Dutt: viola;
• David Harrington: violin;
• John Sherba: violin;
• Sunny Jungin Yang: cello.

• Soo Yeon Lyuh: composer, haegeum;
• Van Dyke Parks: composer, narrator.

• Christine Blair: cello;
• Theo Haber: violin;
• Kana Luzmoor: violin;
• Laila Zaidi: viola.

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Rebecca Wishnia posted a review of the gig at SFCV.

• My Desert, My Rose
• the Serquent Risadome
• Yessori
• Carrying the Past
• Sun Rings

Back to the previous event! ☸ Up to the 2017 yearbox! ☸ Up to the 2017 event list! ☸ On to the next event!