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Performance TitleJubilee - Aga Khan
Performance Date20 June 2018
Performance DayWednesday
Performance Time20:09
Main PerformersBassekou Kouyaté - ngoni (West African traditional lute)
Orchestra or BandAga Khan Music Initiative (AKMI),
Kronos Quartet
Set List'Josh', Homayoun Sakhi,
'Duet for Tabla and Doira',
'Pashto Gharani', trad.,
'Dance of th Yi', Wang Huiran,
'Zaghlala', Islam Chipsy,
'Four Chinese Paintings: Gobi Desert at Sunset', Wu Man,
'Rohat', trad.,
'Madhuvanti', Homayoun Sakhi,
'My Gypsy Home', Basel Rajoub,
'Mashq-iDutar', Sirojiddin Juraev,
'Samai', Feras Charestan,
'Tea House', Wu Man,
'Asia', Basel Rajoub,
'Kanugnon', trad.,
'Ngoni Fola', Bassekou Kouyate,
'Jama Ko', Bassekou Kouyate
Performance NotesJubilee will feature Master Musicians of the Aga Khan Music Initiative and special guests Kronos Quartet and Bassekou Kouyaté in a performance of newly-created compositions that exemplify the way musical creativity has historically developed from the meeting of different cultures.

The first half of the concert features Master Musicians of the Aga Khan Music Initiative (AKMI) and Kronos Quartet, the world-renowned collective who have been working with AKMI since 2008,and who have commissioned more than 900 new and original works and arrangements for string quartet since their inception in 1973.

In the second half of the programme, AKMI’s Masters will be joined by a trio of Malian musicians led by the ngoni player Bassekou Kouyaté, a long-term AKMI collaborator whose recording Segu Blue won Album of the Year & African Artist of the Year at the BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music and received a Grammy nomination for the follow-up I Speak Fula. The trio also includes Kouyaté’s wife Amy Sacko and daughter Oumou Kouyaté on vocals.

Produced by the Ismaili Centre London, Aga Khan Music Initiative, and Serious.
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/2018/45),
Poster (RAHE/2/2018/34)
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/yDEyZPKy_1J7u
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2018/45Jubilee - Aga Khan20 June 2018
RAHE/6/2018/33Jubilee - Aga Khan20 June 2018
RAHE/2/2018/34Jubilee - Aga Khan20 June 2018
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work11314Jubilee - Aga Khan1
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/1020Kronos Quartet; 1973-; American string quartet
DS/UK/5187Kouyate; Bassekou (1966-); Mali musician
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