# Kronos Quartet at Zellerbach Hall Auditorium, December 3, 2016

[Cal Performances](https://calperformances.org/performances/2016-17/new-music/kronos-quartet-fifty-for-the-future.php) presents _Fifty for the Future_ featuring [Kronos Quartet](http://www.kronosquartet.org/)  
2016-12-03  
[Zellerbach Hall Auditorium](http://www.calperfs.berkeley.edu/)  
[U.C. Berkeley, Bancroft Way at Telegraph Ave, Berkeley, CA 94305 USA](http://maps.google.com/maps?q=U.C.+Berkeley,+Bancroft+Way+at+Telegraph+Ave,+Berkeley,+CA+94305+USA&hl=en)  
8:00 PM, Saturday, December 3, 2016

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## Tentative Program

* Garth Knox: _Satellites_
* Aleksandra Vrebalov: _My Desert, My Rose_
* Yotam Haber: _break\_break\_break_
* Mary Kouyoumdjian: _Silent Cranes_ (Bay Area Premiere) 

## Set One

[8:00 PM lights down, announcements, pause, band out]

01. \[8:02 PM\] [Aleksandra Vrebalov](http://www.aleksandravrebalov.com/) \(b. 1970\): _My Desert, My Rose_ (2015)
02. \[8:11 PM\] [Garth Knox](http://www.garthknox.org/) \(b. 1956\): _Satellites_: III. Dimensions (2015)
03. \[8:17 PM\] [N. Rajam](https://musicbrainz.org/artist/d37e4588-6102-4817-a172-41d5cd2719e8) \(b. 1938\), (arr. [Reena Esmail](http://www.reenaesmail.com/)\): _Dadra in Raga Bhairavi_ † (arr. 2015)
04. \[8:29 PM\] [Anna Meredith](http://annameredith.com/) \(b. 1978\): _Tuggemo_ (2016) (World Premiere)
05. \[8:36 PM\] [Philip Glass](http://www.philipglass.com/) \(b. 1937\): String Quartet no. 7 (2014)  
[set ends 8:52 PM; all off after a minute or so; R heads outside to cool off]

## Set Two

[9:13 PM lights down, waiting; band out]

01. \[9:17 PM\] [Abel Meeropol](https://musicbrainz.org/artist/4833cd88-3cf2-4353-acea-b157a947f803) \(1903–1986\), (arr. [Jacob Garchik](http://www.jacobgarchik.com/)\): _Strange Fruit_ (1939) (West Coast Premiere)  
[work ends 9:21 PM]

## Kouyoumdjian: Silent Cranes

[Mary Kouyoumdjian](http://www.marykouyoumdjian.com/) \(b. 1983\): _Silent Cranes_ (2015) (Bay Area Premiere)

01. [9:23 PM] i. _slave to your voice_
02. [9:32 PM] ii. _you did not answer_
03. [9:38 PM] iii. [_with blood-soaked feathers_]
04. [9:49 PM] iv. _you flew away_  
[show ends 9:53 PM; curtain call with Mary Kouyoumdjian, no encore; all off 9:56 PM]


## Performers

[Kronos Quartet](http://www.kronosquartet.org/)

* Hank Dutt: viola;
* David Harrington: violin;
* John Sherba: violin;
* Sunny Jungin Yang: cello, † cello-percussion.

### Production Credits

* [David Barsamian](http://alternativeradio.org/pages/about-barsamian): poetry used in _Silent Cranes_, excerpts from "A Century..."
* [Scott Fraser](https://www.facebook.com/scott.fraser.1610): sound design;
* [Brian Mohr](http://sonicecstacy.com/): sound design, _Silent Cranes_;
* [Laurie Olinder](http://laurieolinder.com/): projection design, _Silent Cranes_;
* [Brian H. Scott](http://brianhscott.com/BrianHScottLD/HOME.html): lighting design.

## Notes

It took me awhile to get around to writing anything for this show because the experience was overwhelmingly moving. And in the end, I feel that there's little I can write to share the profound feelings that the experience of the show generated in me. Sure, I could go on for a bit on the usual trivialities, sharing my thoughts about merits of the various part of the program and Kronos' performance, but that would really miss the point -- it would detract from the impact of being there to hear the amazing composition of Mary Kouyoumdjian and to witness the multimedia spectacle that the Kronos team put together. Go see _Silent Cranes_!

[Program Notes](https://calperformances.org/learn/program_notes/2016-17/pn_kronos.pdf)

Partial (or full?) text of Barsamian's poetry posted last year in the [Armenian Weekly](http://armenianweekly.com/2015/05/14/barsamian-ankara/).

A [Show review](https://www.sfcv.org/reviews/cal-performances/the-kronos-quartet-is-always-looking-forward) by Lou Fancher for SFCV.

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