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Kronos Quartet
with special guest Mahsa Vahdat

Ticketed, in-person event

For more than 45 years, Kronos Quartet – “the most far-ranging ensemble geographically, nationally, and stylistically the world has known” (Los Angeles Times) – has performed music that responds to societal issues, both contemporary and historic.

In this concert, Kronos is joined by Mahsa Vahdat, a prominent performer of Persian vocal music, who collaborated with the quartet on the evocative 2019 recording Placeless. The project features melodies Vahdat composed to classical poems by Hafez and Rumi, as well as contemporary texts by Iranian poets. “[Vahdat] is an alluring, descriptive singer… The sheer seductiveness of her voice and style proved compelling” (Los Angeles Times).

Program

Jlin (arr. Jacob Garchik) / Little Black Book **
Aleksandra Vrebalov / My Desert, My Rose **
Antonio Haskell (arr. Jacob Garchik) / God Shall Wipe All Tears Away (inspired by Mahalia Jackson) +
Stacy Garrop / Glorious Mahalia *

I. Hold on
II. Stave in the ground
III. Are you being treated right
IV. Sometime I feel like a motherless child
V. This world will make you think

featuring the recorded voices of Mahalia Jackson and Studs Terkel

John Coltrane (arr. Jacob Garchik) / Alabama +

Kronos Quartet & Mahsa Vahdat
Mahsa Vahdat (arr. Sahba Aminikia) / The Sun Rises +

The Sun Rises
Vanishing Lines
My Ruthless Companion

Mahsa Vahdat (arr. Aftab Darvishi) / Where is your voice? *
Mahsa Vahdat (arr. Sahba Aminikia) / Placeless +
Mahsa Vahdat (arr. Atabak Elyasi) / I Was Dead +