Wednesday, June 16th – 7pm Pacific

World premieres by Sahba Aminikia, Hawa Kassé Mady Diabaté, and Vân-Ánh Võ (45 minutes)

Program #2 ranges widely, both geographically and stylistically. This diversity is reflected in the three world premieres: Iranian composer Sahba Aminikia’s arrangement of Kavuki, a passionate Kurdish love song, sung by Shahram Nazeri; Hawa Kassé Mady Diabaté’s delicate and propulsive ‘Dulen,’ filmed in Mali with daughter Rokia Kouyaté; and Vietnamese composer/multi- instrumentalist Vân-Ánh Võ’s Adrift. A brief Library of Congress film about the Gullah-Geechee culture of coastal Georgia is followed by composer/trumpeter Charlton Singleton’s stirring Testimony, inspired by his childhood experience of Gullah-Geechee sacred music traditions. Frank Zappa’s None of the Above, written for Kronos, is featured in an excerpt from Alex Winter’s documentary Zappa. Completing the program are three Kronos classics: George Crumb’s ‘God-music’ from Black Angels; Aleksandra Vrebalov’s My Desert, My Rose; and Terry Riley’s ‘One Earth, One People, One Love’ from Sun Rings.