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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It doesn't matter how scrappy or contrarian an arts organization is at the beginning. Stick around long enough, and establish a sufficiently vast and innovative track record, and sooner or later you ...

When the chamber music revival of the 1960s and early 1970s — a kind of classical music response to the folk music revival a few years earlier — had passed its peak, the string quartet as a medium was ...

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 ...