Festival ARCHIVE
KRONOS PRESENTS
Kronos Festival 2018
April 26, 27 & 28, 2018
SFJAZZ Center
201 Franklin Street, San Francisco, California
David Coulter, Artist-In-Residence
THE SCHEDULE
OPENING NIGHT
Islam Chipsy (arr. Jacob Garchik) / Zaghlala زغللةً **
Zakir Hussain (arr. Reena Esmail) / Pallavi ** World Premiere
with Zakir Hussain, tabla
CocoRosie / Songs * World Premiere
with CocoRosie, voices
– CocoRosie (arr. Doug Wieselman) / I Fell In Love With A Sailor *
– CocoRosie (arr. Doug Wieselman) / The Void Part 1 *
– CocoRosie (arr. Doug Wieselman) / The Void Part 2 *
– CocoRosie (arr. Doug Wieselman) / The Show Is Almost Over *
John White / Drinking and Hooting Machine
with guests TBD
John Coltrane (arr. Jacob Garchik) / Alabama +
Ralph Carney (arr. Danny Clay) / Lament for Charleston +^
with David Coulter, artist-in-residence
Mahsa Vahdat / Songs +^ World Premiere
with Mahsa Vahdat, voice, and David Coulter, artist-in-residence
– Mahsa Vahdat (arr. Sahba Aminikia) / My place is the Placeless, my trace is the Traceless and Oh lover! Go mad, go mad! +
– Mahsa Vahdat (arr. Sahba Aminikia) / Eternal meadow +
– Mahsa Vahdat (arr. Atabak Elyasi) / Dead yet I was, then came to life +
Special thanks to Alex Kelly for his help in developing Zakir Hussain’s Pallavi.
Miner Auditorium
DAY TWO
Fodé Lassana Diabaté (arr. Jacob Garchik) / Sunjata’s Time: 5. Bara Kala Ta **
Performed by Dragon String Quartet with Fodé Lassana Diabaté, 22-key balafon
- Lucy Nelligan, violin
- Ben Hudak, violin
- Kana Luzmoor, viola
- Isabelle Fromme, cello
Guillermo Galindo / Remote Control ** World Premiere
Philip Glass / Quartet Satz **
Jack Nitzsche (arr. Jacob Garchik) / One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest +^
with David Coulter, artist-in-residence
Kronos Quartet and Jolie Holland
– Jolie Holland (arr. Jacob Garchik) / Saint Dymphna + World Premiere
– Randy Newman (arr. Jolie Holland and Jacob Garchik) / Louisiana, 1927 + World Premiere
– Jolie Holland (arr. Jacob Garchik) / Out on the Wine Dark Sea + World Premiere
with Jolie Holland, guitar, voice, and David Mihaly, drums and David Coulter
KRONOS QUARTET with Trio Da Kali
Kronos Quartet
– David Harrington, violin
– John Sherba, violin
– Hank Dutt, viola
– Sunny Yang, cello
– Tita
– Kanimba
– Eh Ya Ye
– Garaba Mama
– God Shall Wipe All Tears Away
– Lila Bambo
– Kene Bo
– Ladilikan
– Sunjata
Trio Da Kali
– Fodé Lassana Diabaté, 22-key balafon
– Hawa Kassé Mady Diabaté, voice
– Mamadou Kouyaté, bass ngoni
These arrangements by Fodé Lassana Diabaté, Lucy Durán, and Jacob Garchik were commissioned for the Kronos Quartet and Trio Da Kali by the Aga Khan Music Initiative, a program of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, and the Kronos Performing Arts Association. This concert is presented in collaboration with the Aga Khan Music Initiative.
Miner Auditorium
FAMILY CONCERT / AROUND THE WORLD WITH KRONOS
Program to be announced from the stage.
AMARANTH QUARTET PLAYS KRONOS’ FIFTY FOR THE FUTURE
Performed by Amaranth Quartet
- Emily Botel, violin
- Abigail Shiman, violin
- Julie Michael, viola
- Helen Newby, cello
Rhiannon Giddens (arr. Jacob Garchik) / At the Purchaser’s Option with variations **
Fodé Lassana Diabaté (arr. Jacob Garchik) / Sunjata’s Time **
– Sumaworo
– Nana Triban
Nicole Lizée / Another Living Soul **
Aleksandra Vrebalov / My Desert, My Rose **
Garth Knox / Satellites **
I. Geostationary
II. Spectral Sunrise
III. Dimensions
SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 2018 | Joe Henderson Lab
ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE SPOTLIGHT / DAVID COULTER AND FRIENDS
Performed by David Coulter with Sahba Aminikia, The Living Earth Show and bran(…)pos
Program to be announced from the stage.
SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 2018 | Miner Auditorium
DAY THREE
Yevgeniy Sharlat / pencil sketch **
Kronos Quartet and Vân-Ánh Võ
with Vân-Ánh Võ, đàn bầu and đàn tranh
Gustav Mahler (arr. Kronos) / Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (I am lost to the world) +
John Dowland (arr. Kronos and Vân-Ánh Võ) / Selections from Lachrimae +
Henry Purcell (arr. Vân-Ánh Võ) / The Cold Song from King Arthur +
Zachary Watkins / Peace Be Till * West Coast Premiere
Aftab Darvishi / Daughters of Sol **
David Coulter (arr. Sahba Aminikia) / A Thousand Splendid Suns Suite +^ World Premiere
with David Coulter, artist-in-residence
Aleksandra Vrebalov / Missa Supratext *^ World Premiere
with San Francisco Girls Chorus, conducted by Valérie Sainte-Agathe,
and David Coulter, artist-in-residence
- Asking
- Celebration
- Believing
- Holy All
- Surrendering
- Freedom
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
The San Francisco–based, Grammy-winning Kronos Quartet and its nonprofit Kronos Performing Arts Association presents their fourth annual hometown music festival Kronos Festival 2018 this April at SFJAZZ Center. With six concerts over three days, Kronos Festival 2018 illustrates one of the group’s central artistic tenets: collaboration.
Together for the first time since the release of their critically acclaimed joint album Ladilikan last fall, Kronos and the Malian griot ensemble Trio Da Kali perform music from the LP that topped several year-end best-of lists, including Songlines, fRoots and the Transglobal World Music Chart. Returning from previous festivals are Zakir Hussain, Mahsa Vahdat, Vân-Ánh Võ and the San Francisco Girls Chorus, conducted by Valérie Sainte-Agathe. Kronos also unveils exciting new projects with the wildly performative experimental duo CocoRosie and genre-bending singer-songwriter Jolie Holland. Additional guests to be announced.
This year’s festival highlights the expansive sonic worlds of David Coulter, who serves as the festival’s artist-in-residence. The British-born, Bay Area–based multidisciplinary artist, musician, composer, director and educator has worked with Kronos since the 1990s. Known for his work with The Pogues, Tom Waits, Robert Wilson, Laurie Anderson, Yoko Ono, Beck and Gorillaz, as well as his theatrical scores, including A.C.T.‘s recent production of A Thousand Splendid Suns, Coulter will be featured throughout the festival.
A thread woven throughout the festival is Kronos’ Fifty for the Future open access education initiative, which is commissioning—and distributing for free—a learning library of contemporary repertoire. Eleven of these 50 commissions will be performed by Kronos and, fittingly, by the Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts’ Dragon String Quartet and the Bay Area–based ensemble Amaranth Quartet.
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