Kronos Quartet: Five Decades (Budapest, Hungary)

• Mahsa Vahdat, voice

Severiano Briseño — El Sinaloense ("The Man from Sinaloa") (arr. Osvaldo Golijov)
Jlin / Sun Ra — Maji (arr. Kronos Quartet)
George Crumb — Black Angels ("God-music")
Peni Candra Rini — Segara Gunung (excerpt; arr. Jacob Garchik)
Nicole Lizée — ZonelyHearts
Traditional — The House of the Rising Sun (arr. Jacob Garchik; inspired by The Everly Brothers)
Bob Dylan — All Along the Watchtower (arr. Jacob Garchik; inspired by Jimi Hendrix)
Antonio Haskell — God Shall Wipe All Tears Away (arr. Jacob Garchik; inspired by Mahalia Jackson)
Steve Reich — Triple Quartet
Traditional — Selected works (lullaby TBA; arr. Jacob Garchik)
Mahsa Vahdat — Vaya Vaya (arr. Atabak Elyasi)
Mahsa Vahdat — The Sun Rises (arr. Sahba Aminikia)
Mahsa Vahdat — I Will Be Your Voice (arr. Aftab Darvishi; world premiere)
Mahsa Vahdat — Crane
Mahsa Vahdat — I Was Dead (arr. Atabak Elyasi)

Kronos Quartet marks its fiftieth anniversary in the 2023/24 season with the KRONOS Five Decades tour, adding to its legacy of innovation by performing programs which feature new commissions, signature works from its vast repertoire, and pieces from its Kronos Fifty for the Future project.

In this concert, Kronos is joined by Mahsa Vahdat, a prominent performer of Persian vocal music, who collaborated with the quartet on the evocative 2019 recording Placeless. The project features melodies Vahdat composed to classical poems by Hafez and Rumi, as well as contemporary texts by Iranian poets. "[Vahdat] is an alluring, descriptive singer… The sheer seductiveness of her voice and style proved compelling." (Los Angeles Times)

About Kronos Quartet

http://www.kronosquartet.org/

About Mahsa Vahdat, voice

https://www.mahsavahdat.net/