Dinkelspiel Auditorium Stanford University
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Sunday, February 12, 2012, 7-10:00pm
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
“[Alim is] a master singer. ... He just came with his drum, and he sang, and it was so pure and effortless, and like...a huge hill of blooms.”
—Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
Renowned for finding musical common ground across a seemingly limitless expanse of cultures and traditions, Grammy-winners and Lively Arts favorites the Kronos Quartet return for a solo set and a joint... [read more]
“[Alim is] a master singer. ... He just came with his drum, and he sang, and it was so pure and effortless, and like...a huge hill of blooms.”
—Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
Renowned for finding musical common ground across a seemingly limitless expanse of cultures and traditions, Grammy-winners and Lively Arts favorites the Kronos Quartet return for a solo set and a joint performance with Azerbaijan’s revered Alim Qasimov Ensemble—a magically cohesive partnership heard on Kronos’ recent albums Floodplain (2009) and Rainbow (2010). A member of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble and winner of the prestigious IMC-UNESCO International Music Prize, Qasimov is one of the greatest living masters of mugham, a classical Azerbaijani vocal tradition. Kronos founder/violinist David Harrington said he was “magnetized” upon first hearing Qasimov sing, adding, “His voice drew me so close that it has become part of my own inner singing.”
