Kronos Festival – Good Medicine Night 1

Kronos Quartet with special guests Soo Yeon Lyuh & Vân-Ánh Võ.

Terry Riley: Good Medicine from Salome Dances for Peace

Hildur Guõnadóttir: Folk Faer Andlit (World premiere)

Peni Candra Rini (arr. Jacob Garchik & Andy McGraw): Segara Gunung

IV. Hujan

Traditional (arr. Jacob Garchik): A Shout

Soo Yeon Lyuh: Sumbisori (World premiere)
featuring Soo Yeon Lyuh

Aleksandra Vrebalov: Cardinal Directions (World premiere)
featuring Vân-Ánh Võ

Gabriella Smith: Keep Going

I. Keep Going
II. Isabel
III. Water
IV. Driftwood Jam
V. What I love the most

Kronos Festival 2025 opens with Terry Riley’s Good Medicine from Salome Dances for Peace, an epic, two-hour-long string quartet. This movement serves as the last selection of the ballet, which tells the story of Salome using her alluring powers to create peace in the world. This important piece was described by Riley as “not. . . just a concert piece but a piece that could be played as a rite.” Following this will be the first world premiere of the evening, Hildur Guðnadóttir’s Folk Faer Andlit, written in response to the mistreatment of refugees in Iceland. This new arrangement of her 2020 release transforms the evocative plainchant sound of the original into haunting, interwoven melodies. Also on the program is the world premiere of Soo Yeon Lyuh’s Sumbisori, which brings the virtuosity of her haegeum playing to the story of a singular, ancient and disappearing way of life on Jeju Island, and Cardinal Directions by Aleksandra Vrebalov, which will mark 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War and feature master Vietnamese instrumentalist Vân-Ánh Võ alongside Kronos. Peni Candra Rini’s timely and elemental Segara Gunung: IV. Hujan, Gabriella Smith’s uplifting Keep Going, and A Shout, a traditional arrangement by Jacob Garchik, will complete the program.

Location: Miner Auditorium

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