Sun June 28, 2015
Kronos Presents: Terry Riley Festival
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at SFJAZZ Center
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June 26-28, 2015, Fri - Sat 7:30pm, Sun 7pm
In honor of Terry Riley's 80th birthday, the San Francisco-based, Grammy-winning Kronos Quartet / Kronos Performing Arts Association presents a three-day festival, featuring performances of several of the composer's most significant and rarely-performed works, with special guest performers Zakir Hussain, Wu Man, The Living Earth Show, Gyan Riley and Terry Riley himself.
The festival features four world premieres, including a series of five new one-minute commissioned pieces written in celebration of Riley's birthday. At the festival's conclusion, Riley's monumental Salome Dances for Peace will be performed in its entirety by Kronos for the first time in 20 years.
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In honor of Terry Riley's 80th birthday, the San Francisco-based, Grammy-winning Kronos Quartet / Kronos Performing Arts Association presents a three-day festival, featuring performances of several of the composer's most significant and rarely-performed works, with special guest performers Zakir Hussain, Wu Man, The Living Earth Show, Gyan Riley and Terry Riley himself.
The festival features four world premieres, including a series of five new one-minute commissioned pieces written in celebration of Riley's birthday. At the festival's conclusion, Riley's monumental Salome Dances for Peace will be performed in its entirety by Kronos for the first time in 20 years.
June 26-28, 2015, Fri - Sat 7:30pm, Sun 7pm
In honor of Terry Riley's 80th birthday, the San Francisco-based, Grammy-winning Kronos Quartet / Kronos Performing Arts Association presents a three-day festival, featuring performances of several of the composer's most significant and rarely-performed works, with special guest performers Zakir Hussain, Wu Man, The Living Earth Show, Gyan Riley and Terry Riley himself.
The festival features four world premieres, including a series of five new one-minute commissioned pieces written in celebration of Riley's birthday. At the festival's conclusion, Riley's monumental Salome Dances for Peace will be performed in its entirety by Kronos for the first time in 20 years.
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In honor of Terry Riley's 80th birthday, the San Francisco-based, Grammy-winning Kronos Quartet / Kronos Performing Arts Association presents a three-day festival, featuring performances of several of the composer's most significant and rarely-performed works, with special guest performers Zakir Hussain, Wu Man, The Living Earth Show, Gyan Riley and Terry Riley himself.
The festival features four world premieres, including a series of five new one-minute commissioned pieces written in celebration of Riley's birthday. At the festival's conclusion, Riley's monumental Salome Dances for Peace will be performed in its entirety by Kronos for the first time in 20 years.
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SFJAZZ Center
201 Franklin Street (at Fell), San Francisco, CA 94102
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