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KRONOS FESTIVAL: PROGRAM #1

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World premieres by Soo Yeon Lyuh, Hawa Kassé Mady Diabaté, Mahsa Vahdat, and Tadi Todi (45 minutes)

KRONOS FESTIVAL opens with the world premiere of ZonelyHearts, with music and film by Canadian composer Nicole Lizée. In another world premiere, Korean composer Soo Yeon Lyuh performs Tattoo, a new work with film by Danny Kim, written in response to a harrowing incident in Berkeley, California in which someone fired a gun at her car. ‘Wawani,’ the first of three pieces by Malian singer Hawa Kassé Mady Diabaté to premiere at the festival, features Diabaté’s joyous performance with daughter Rokia Kouyaté captured in a vibrant film shot in Mali. Mahsa Vahdat’s Vaya, Vaya, with music and text by the Iranian singer, is a deep expression of longing, with film by Laurie Olinder.  Stacy Garrop‘s Glorious Mahalia, a celebration of the artistry of Gospel icon Mahalia Jackson, in featured in the world premiere of a new film with San Francisco dance artist Tadi Todi. Also on the program: inti figgis-vizueta‘s Music for Transitions, performed by special guest Andrew Yee, Clint Mansell’s ominous ‘Lux Aeterna,’ Jlin’s driving, insistent Little Black Book, and Pete Seeger’s antiwar lament Where Have All the Flowers Gone?, with folksingers Sam Amidon, Brian Carpenter, Lee Knight, and Aoife O’Donovan.