Musical Collaborations with Del Sol String Quartet
Listen now
Description
ased in San Francisco, the Del Sol String Quartet is asserting itself as a leader in Bay Area new-music performance. This ensemble commissions new music from composers and showcases those and other new works in relevant, responsive and deeply passionate performances. Spark listens to the Del Sol String Quartet rehearse and is there when the quartet debuts the work of three composers -- New Zealand native Jack Body, Iranian-American composer Reza Vali and Los Angeles-based Eric Lindsay.
More Episodes
Crafted from recycled materials, Ma Li’s dream-like sculptures celebrate individual freedom, imagination and play. In Ma Li’s hands, clear plastic bottles transform into suspended fields of jellyfish-like sculptures, and colored foam and clothes hangers resemble migrating flocks of birds. With...
Published 06/22/15
Painter, graphic designer, illustrator, sculptor and stereo photographer Rene Garcia Jr. has been re-imagining popular art in many different ways, but it's his large format sculptural glitter paintings that have gotten the most attention recently. Reproducing such things as retro ads and...
Published 07/23/14
Passion for the art of dance is perhaps the defining quality of Oakland's Ronn Guidi, director of the Oakland Ballet Academy and founder of the famous Oakland Ballet. An ever-energetic mainstay of the East Bay dance scene, Guidi created the Oakland Ballet in 1965 and led the small regional...
Published 07/23/14