EPISODE · Dec 23, 2017 · 1H 32M
Kontras Quartet Live
from Relevant Tones · host Access Contemporary Music
A special broadcast with Chicago’s Kontras Quartet, a group that has been blending the line between classical and folk music since 2009. On this program we’ll hear folk-inspired repertoire from South Africa to Japan back home to the Midwest. Hosted by Seth Boustead Produced by Sarah Zwinklis Music Strum by Jessie Montgomery String Quartet No. 1 “White Man Sleeps”: Movement I. “First Dance” by Kevin Volans Exodus Quartet: I. “A Tale; Generations of Suffering” by Rudy Perrault Appalachian Polaroids by Steven Snowden Japanese Folk Song Suite No. 2: Movement I. Yagibushi & Movement II. Nambu ushioi otaby Hajime Komatsu – Komeng by Mokale Koapeng 8 Chinese folk songs: No. 5: Horse Herds Mountain Song & No. 8: Leaving Home by Zhou Long Shortnin’ Bread by Florence Price String Quartet No. 3 “Old Time” by Mark O’Connor Black Bend by Dan Visconti
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A special broadcast with Chicago’s Kontras Quartet, a group that has been blending the line between classical and folk music since 2009. On this program we’ll hear folk-inspired repertoire from South Africa to Japan back home to the Midwest. Hosted by Seth Boustead Produced by Sarah Zwinklis Music Strum by Jessie Montgomery String Quartet No. 1 “White Man Sleeps”: Movement I. “First Dance” by Kevin Volans Exodus Quartet: I. “A Tale; Generations of Suffering” by Rudy Perrault Appalachian Polaroids by Steven Snowden Japanese Folk Song Suite No. 2: Movement I. Yagibushi & Movement II. Nambu ushioi otaby Hajime Komatsu – Komeng by Mokale Koapeng 8 Chinese folk songs: No. 5: Horse Herds Mountain Song & No. 8: Leaving Home by Zhou Long Shortnin’ Bread by Florence Price String Quartet No. 3 “Old Time” by Mark O’Connor Black Bend by Dan Visconti
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