Kronos Quartet performing at the Sacrum Profanum Festival in Krakow in September 2014 (courtesy Cinetic Media) There’s a healthy tradition of screening movies with musicians performing the score live.
Fifty years is a long time in the life of any music group. But listening to David Harrington talk about the Kronos Quartet, it’s easy to get the sense that the groundbreaking new music foursome is ...
Kronos Quartet is celebrating 40 years of playing music together — and to mark the occasion, they're playing a celebration concert at Carnegie Hall in New York tomorrow night. Since their founding, ...
In support of Aheym, the National‘s Bryce Dessner sat down with members of Kronos Quartet for this video in which they discuss the connection that led to their recent collaborative album, which was ...
Review: Kronos Quartet Revisits Vietnam Horror in ‘My Lai’ The story of a soldier who took a heroic stand against evil is evoked in a monodrama for tenor, string quartet and Vietnamese instruments. By ...
Kronos Quartet are marking the 80th anniversary of the first nuclear detonation by covering Bob Dylan‘s “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” with the Hard Rain Collective. Proceeds benefit the Red Hot ...
Kronos Quartet, the United States’ best-known string quartet, famous for its crossover projects and advocacy of new music, has been celebrating its 50th-anniversary season with a Five Decades tour. It ...
The celebrated San Francisco string group Kronos Quartet have shared their take on Pete Seeger’s “Where Have All the Flowers Gone,” from their upcoming tribute album, Long Time Passing: Kronos Quartet ...
Most every Kronos Quartet fan who has followed the group through its four-decade career has a favorite Kronos moment. Mine is from around 1990 in El Paso, Texas, when a performance of Istvan Marta's ...
A master of the kora who worked with Herbie Hancock and Philip Glass, his career was powered as much by experimentation as by reverence for tradition. By Giovanni Russonello The venerable quartet ...
Few ensembles have done more for the string quartet in recent years than the Kronos Quartet, pushing the boundaries of a long-established instrumental medium that can be traced back over two and a ...
David Harrington (left) with the latest incarnation of the Kronos Quartet. For centuries the string quartet was the perfect embodiment of classical decorum. Then along came the Kronos Quartet. For 40 ...
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