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Saturday, April 9, 2022, Program #3, 7:30pm

Kronos Quartet with special guests Soo Yeon Lyuh, Mahsa Vahdat, and Wu Man

Program #3 closes Kronos Festival with three world premieres written for Kronos. inti figgis-vizueta’s music by yourself is a piece about “connecting to people who are and aren’t still here.” Iranian singer Mahsa Vahdat performs in Where Is Your Voice, a new, original song arranged by Aftab Darvishi. Korean-American composer and master of the haegeum Soo Yeon Lyuh takes the stage in Tattoo (Extended Version), the artist’s powerful response to a harrowing incident in Berkeley, California in which someone fired a gun at her car. Philip Glass’ Orion: China, written on the occasion of the Athens Cultural Olympiad in Summer 2004, contemplates the Earth’s relationship to the constellations as interpreted by the world’s many cultures, and features pipa virtuoso Wu Man.

The program also includes Russian nonagenarian composer Sofia Gubaidulina’s Quartet No. 4, one of Kronos’ signature works its vast body of commissions; and Jacob Garchik’s Storyteller, a 16-minute work featuring archival recordings of the legendary Pete Seeger singing, speaking, and playing his banjo. Storyteller was one of the works in Long Time Passing: Kronos Quartet and Friends Celebrate Pete Seeger, a tribute to the late folk musician and activist.

Program #3
Kronos Quartet with special guests Soo Yeon Lyuh, Mahsa Vahdat, and Wu Man

PROGRAM TO INCLUDE:

Soo Yeon Lyuh / Tattoo (Extended Version) * world premiere

with special guest Soo Yeon Lyuh, haegeum

Mahsa Vahdat (arr. Aftab Darvishi) / Where Is Your Voice * world premiere

with special guest Mahsa Vahdat, vocals

Philip Glass (arr. Michael Riesman) / Orion: China +

with special guest Wu Man, pipa

inti figgis-vizueta / music by yourself * world premiere

Sofia Gubaidulina / Quartet No. 4*

Jacob Garchik / Storyteller *