Contemporary music. Today, you can listen to The Sea Ranch Songs, a string quartet by Aleksandra Vrebalov
This episode features the 54-year-old composer Aleksandra Vrebalov, who gained international fame for her work The Sea Ranch Songs, a composition of thirteen parts for string quartet. She wrote this in 2015, commissioned by the Kronos Quartet in honour of the fiftieth anniversary of The Sea Ranch. They are a small community on the coast of Northern California, where the ideals of the sixties are still cultivated and cherished; they try and live in harmony with nature, in contrast to the rest of the world, where this way of life seems to have become a thing of the past.
Andrew Lyndon made a film to accompany the work, which you can find on YouTube. The music remains very impressive without the images and is definitely worth listening to.
Playlist
Aleksandra Vrebalov – The Sea Ranch Songs (Kronos Quartet).
