Kontras Quartet Live

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