Kronos Quartet News

Since its formation in 1973, the Kronos Quartet has stood as a pillar in the contemporary classical world through frequent touring and promotion of a wide range of experimental musical forms.

Audio for today's show will be available at approx. 7:00 p.m. ET. November 16, 2008 - The viola has been the butt of many jokes, especially in the classical-music world.

The first of two candidates for the position of artistic director for Music in the Mountains is in Grass Valley for the next two weekends to give the community a taste of his musical style.

Tuesday, November 4th , is Noon-Bach-cantata Tuesday at the Church of the Epiphany , your monthly lunch-time haven of sanity.

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"The reason we got into playing ' Purple Haze ' by Jimi Hendrix in the late '70s," says the Kronos Quartet 's David Harrington , "is because people were saying the orchestras in the United States were gonna ...

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Think of any musical genre - in all likelihood, Kronos has already conquered it and made something new from it.

Internationally acclaimed architect Steven Holl will talk about his recent work today at the Athens Concert Hall, following an introduction by architect Memos Philippidis.

Unorthodox and daring, the Grammy Award-winning Kronos Quartet takes impeccably rehearsed classical string music, throws in musical influences from every corner of the globe, adds a bit of technology and ...

The Barbican's Ramadan Nights shows have become a showpiece for the passionate music of Sufi Islam that is often overlooked by western audiences, and two outstanding concerts this weekend presented very ...

Our correspondent travels to Azerbaijan to meet and hear Alim Qasimov, soon to be performing with the Kronos Quartet in London, and revered as 'one of the five best singers of all time' David Hutcheon The ...

Published: Wednesday, September 3, 2008 at 2:07 p.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, September 3, 2008 at 2:07 p.m. The horror of Sept.

In their 30 years together, the Kronos Quartet have single-handedly maintained the string quartet's cultural relevance.

Audio Archive > Other Minds Archive > Morning Concert: Charles Amirkhanian's Last Morning Concert as KPFA Music Director Morning Concert: Charles Amirkhanian's Last Morning Concert as KPFA Music Director This ...

If you wanted a demonstration of how America differs from the rest of the world, you had only to be at the Kronos Quartet's Tanglewood concert Thursday night.

The Kronos Quartet, which revolutionized what a chamber-music group could be, performs at Tanglewood next week.

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Target World Music Festival kicks off Symphony's season With the support of Target, The Phoenix Symphony presents its inaugural Target World Music Festival around the Valley Sept.

Though the artist known as Gronk has lived in the same funky, baroquely attired Spring Street loft for the last 14 years, you could say that he is really, at heart, a street person. You're just as likely to find him pounding the downtown pavement in his red Converse high-tops - browsing the mom-and-pop tiendas along Broadway, eyeing a fluorescent slice of pie at Clifton's Cafeteria, or hopping the Gold Line train from Chinatown to the Pasadena Trader Joe's, where he's careful not to buy more than he can carry home in one trip.