Kronos Festival Kids! (on-demand)
Free (Free)
Aftab Darvishi — Daughters of Sol
Sahba Aminikia — Music of the Birds
Hawa Kassé Mady Diabaté — Funtukuru
Traditional — Chebiyat Muqam – Third Dastan
Bill Steele — Garbage
Wu Man — Selected works
David Harrington, violin
John Sherba, violin
Hank Dutt, viola
Sunny Yang, cello
Lee Knight, vocals
A new program made specially for kids (30-minutes)
Kronos Festival Kids! is a sparkling collection of short films with music, including Kronos Makes Sounds With Stuff by composer Danny Clay; 3000 Reefs, with stunning underwater cinematography by Julia Sumerling and music by Aftab Darvishi; Music of the Birds, with avian-inspired music and film by Sahba Aminikia, featuring the San Francisco Girls Chorus, young people from the Sirkhane Social Circus School, and ornithologists from the Smithsonian Institution and and around the country; Funtukuru, an exuberant song by Hawa Kassé Mady Diabaté; Chebiyat Muqam – Third Dastan, a traditional melody arranged by Wu Man and performed by young musicians from Oakland School for the Arts and Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts; and Bill Steele’s environmental anthem Garbage, made famous by Pete Seeger and performed by singer Lee Knight with Kronos.
The broadcast will take place at 11:30am Pacific.
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Link to donate: https://kronosquartet.org/donate/