The Kronos Quartet gave another of its typically absorbing concerts Saturday night at Irvine Barclay Theatre. All of the music had been specifically written or arranged for the group. The piece de ...

Here comes the sun — again. Alive to a radiant democratic spirit taking hold in Europe and alongside a new appreciation of the natural world, the 40-year-old Joseph Haydn composed six revolutionary ...

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Has anyone commissioned more musical works than the Kronos Quartet? It’s doubtful. Over the last 45 years, the San Francisco-based string quartet has commissioned some 950 pieces — and yes, that tally ...

Etc.: CU violin professor Lina Bahn gives a preconcert lecture in Room 102 in Macky at 6:45 p.m. Kronos Quartet and the Pendulum New Music program at CU host a free master class at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday ...

In 1973, a young Seattle violinist named David Harrington heard a broadcast of George Crumb's "Black Angels" for electric string quartet, the composer's response to the Vietnam War. which includes ...

Violinist David Harrington remembers being 14 years old, already a well-formed music fanatic, staring at a globe of the world “and realizing at that moment,” he says, “that all the string quartet ...

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 ...

So much music. So much time. Since the Kronos Quartet’s founding in 1973, critical response to their work has focused on the many aspects of time suggested by their name. Indeed, the recent 50th ...

Maybe it came from the rehearsal that had finished three minutes earlier. But everything Kronos Quartet founder and violinist David Harrington had to say in a recent conversation seemed to carry an ...

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, ...