# Kronos Quartet at Miner Auditorium, February 3, 2017

[Kronos Festival: Here and Now](http://www.kronosquartet.org/kronos-festival-2017) presents _Carrying the Past_ featuring the [Kronos Quartet](http://www.kronosquartet.org/) with special guests, the Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts’ Dragon String Quartet, [Soo Yeon Lyuh](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sooyeonlyuh), and [Van Dyke Parks](http://bananastan.com/)  
[Robert M. Miner Auditorium](http://www.sfjazz.org/center)  
[SFJAZZ Center, 205 Franklin St, San Francisco, CA 94102 USA](http://maps.google.com/maps?q=SFJAZZ+Center,+205+Franklin+St,+San+Francisco,+CA+94102+USA&hl=en)  
7:30 PM, Friday, February 3, 2017

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## Tentative Program

Kronos will perform works by Parks, Terry Riley, Hamza El Din, Aleksandra Vrebalov, Dan Becker, Lyuh, and Mohammad-Reza Shajarian & Kayhan Kalhor 

## Set One

[7:35 PM lights down, announcements from Janet Cowperthwaite and David Harrington]

01. [7:39 PM] Aleksandra Vrebalov: _My Desert, My Rose_ (performed by the Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts’ Dragon String Quartet)  
[work ends 7:47 PM]  
[pause for DSQ to exit and Kronos to enter]  
[7:49 PM comments from David Harrington]
02. [7:51 PM] Mohammad Reza Shajarian & Kayhan Kalhor (arr. Sahba Aminikia): _Rain_  
[work ends 7:59 PM]  
[8:00 PM David Harrington introduces Terry Riley]
03. [8:02 PM] Terry Riley: _The Autodaydreamographical Anteriopod_ (1996); featuring Terry Riley: recitation
04. [8:09 PM] Terry Riley: _The Serquent Risadome_ (2014; SF Bay Area premiere)  
[work ends 8:21 PM]  
[8:22 PM David Harrington talks briefly about Hamza El Din]
05. [8:23 PM] Hamza El Din (realized by Tohru Ueda): _Escalay (Water Wheel)_  
[8:33 PM David Harrington introduces Soo Yeon Lyuh]
06. [8:35 PM] Soo Yeon Lyuh: _Yessori (Sound from the Past)_ (World premiere); featuring special guest Soo Yeon Lyuh: haegeum and korean gong  
[set ends 8:46 PM, all off after a minute or two]

## Set Two

[9:06 PM lights down, band out with Van Dyke Parks]

### Van Dyke Parks: A Coney Island of the Mind

Van Dyke Parks: _A Coney Island of the Mind_  (Excerpts; World premiere), based on poetry by Lawrence Ferlinghetti; with special guest Van Dyke Parks, narrator

01. [9:07 PM] _Goya_
02. [9:11 PM] _Straits of Demos_
03. [9:16 PM] _I Am Waiting_  
[work ends 9:25 PM]  
[9:26 PM David Harrington introduces the next piece]
04. [9:28 PM] Dan Becker: _Carrying the Past_  
[set ends 9:41 PM]  
   
**Encore**  
[9:43 PM David Harrington announces the final piece]
05. [9:44 PM] Terry Riley: _One Earth, One People, One Love_ (Tenth and final movement of _Sun Rings_, 2002)  
[show ends 9:53 PM]

## Performers

### Kronos Quartet

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

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

### Guests

* [Soo Yeon Lyuh](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sooyeonlyuh): composer, haegeum;
* [Van Dyke Parks](http://bananastan.com/): composer, narrator.

### the Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts’ Dragon String Quartet

* Christine Blair: cello;
* Theo Haber: violin;
* Kana Luzmoor: violin;
* Laila Zaidi: viola.

## Notes

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Rebecca Wishnia posted a [review](https://www.sfcv.org/reviews/kronos-quartet/kronos-keeps-it-fresh) of the gig at SFCV.

### Program Notes

* [My Desert, My Rose](http://kronosquartet.org/fifty-for-the-future/composers/aleksandra-vrebalov)
* [the Serquent Risadome](http://www.musicsalesclassical.com/composer/work/49318)
* [Yessori](http://www.sooyeonlyuh.com/yessori-sound-from-the-past)
* [Carrying the Past](http://heshemusic.com/products/carrying-the-past-2012-dan-becker)
* [Sun Rings](http://kronosquartet.org/projects/detail/sun_rings)

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