I wasn’t nervous. I was worried about the sound and lighting booth people, and the electrical situation. I think the right thing was done, of course. In preparing for the pieces I am writing about Mr.
Commissioned in part by the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Kronos Quartet, the East Coast premiere of Philip Glass’s String Quartet No. 6 on Thursday in ...
The Kronos Quartet is a study in contrasts. Playing in a darkened Tryon Festival Theater, this quartet is unusual in bringing along an audio engineer and a lighting supervisor. Hence, their ...
So begins the Kronos Quartet's exploration of George Crumb's "Black Angels," a bleak journey through the Vietnam War, which the string quartet is to perform tonight along with Quartet No. 5 by Philip ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... For what it’s worth, the Beatles stayed together for about a decade. The Kronos Quartet, a boundary-pushing string ensemble, has lasted more than five times ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Kronos Quartet will present concerts featuring the Mỹ Lai Suite (adapted from the ...
Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Kronos Quartet was founded in Seattle, Washington in 1973 by Artistic ...
Kronos Quartet has commissioned 50 pieces of music for its latest project, Fifty for the Future. Irish composer and violist Garth Knox recently wrote a piece called Satellites, which, he says, tries ...
The group, which celebrated its birthday on Friday at Carnegie Hall, changed music with its open-eared and open-minded approach. By Zachary Woolfe In works like “John Somebody,” he mixed the ...