CANCELED: Kronos Quartet - At War With Ourselves Preview Performance

This event has been cancelled.

Michael Abels, composer
Nikky Finney, librettist
Performed by Kronos Quartet, members of the San Francisco Girls Chorus, and singers from University of South Carolina
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Based in Los Angeles, composer Abels is best known for his critically lauded score for the 2017 horror film Get Out, directed by Jordan Peele.  A National Book Award-winning South Carolina native, Finney is currently the John H. Bennett, Jr. Endowed Professor of Creative Writing and Southern Letters at UofSC. The starting point for the development of At War With Ourselves will be Finney’s 2013 poem “The Battle of and for the Black Face Boy,” which she described as being “made of Civil War history, Black history, and modern American headlines.”

At War With Ourselves is being created with funding from a Hewlett Foundation 50 Arts Commission and the MAP Fund, supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Additional co-commissioning support is provided by ASU Gammage at Arizona State University, Hancher Auditorium – The University of Iowa, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, SFJAZZ, and University of South Carolina.
Kronos Quartet website
Nikky Finney bio
Michael Abels NPR interview
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