A Threnody for Those Who Remain - Sahba Aminikia written for Kronos Quartet

I. Fèrāgh (Separation) II. Faghān (Wail) III. Soog (Praying and Mourning) “Around 8:00 A.M. on Sunday, December 20th, 2009, I received a call in San Francisco from my sister in Iran, telling me that my dad had passed away in a car crash on a highway in Tehran on the way home. Shocked and hysterical, I bought a plane ticket for the day after to Frankfurt, and then on to Tehran, where I spent 20 days. After I got back to San Francisco, I had coffee with David Harrington from Kronos to talk about a new projec