Kronos Festival 2021: Program No. 2 (on-demand)
Free (Free)
Hawa Kassé Mady Diabaté — Dulen
Vân-Ánh Võ — Adrift
Charlton Singleton — Testimony
Frank Zappa — None of the Above
George Crumb — Black Angels
Aleksandra Vrebalov — My Desert, My Rose
Terry Riley — Sun Rings
Sahba Aminikia — Selected works
Shahram Nazeri, voice
Charlton Singleton, trumpet
David Harrington, violin
John Sherba, violin
Hank Dutt, viola
Sunny Yang, cello
World premieres by Sahba Aminikia, Hawa Kassé Mady Diabaté, and Vân-Ánh Võ (45 minutes)
Program No. 2 ranges widely, both geographically and stylistically. This diversity is reflected in the three world premieres: Iranian composer Sahba Aminikia’s arrangement of Kavuki, a passionate Kurdish love song, sung by Shahram Nazeri; Hawa Kassé Mady Diabaté’s delicate and propulsive Dulen, filmed in Mali with daughter Rokia Kouyaté; and Vietnamese composer/multi- instrumentalist Vân-Ánh Võ’s Adrift. A brief Library of Congress film about the Gullah-Geechee culture of coastal Georgia is followed by composer/trumpeter Charlton Singleton’s stirring Testimony, inspired by his childhood experience of Gullah-Geechee sacred music traditions. Frank Zappa’s None of the Above, written for Kronos, is featured in an excerpt from Alex Winter’s documentary Zappa. Completing the program are three Kronos classics: George Crumb’s "God-music" from Black Angels; Aleksandra Vrebalov’s My Desert, My Rose; and Terry Riley’s "One Earth, One People, One Love" from Sun Rings.
The broadcast will take place at 7pm Pacific.
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