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On July 16, 1945, the United States carried out the Trinity test, the world’s first nuclear detonation. Today, 80 years later ...
Two new renditions of Dylan’s “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall” memorialize the 80th anniversary of the Trinity test ...
July 16, marked the 80th anniversary of the Trinity Test, the US military’s first detonation of a nuclear weapon in the deserts of New Mexico.
No one is ever going to say that Kronos Quartet is satisfied with the string quartet status quo. This group, founded nearly 50 years ago by violinist David Harrington, has, in its malleable ...
Once a steelworker and now a genre-defying electronic composer, Jlin made history at the Library of Congress with the ...
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.
Kronos Quartet, ever spinning in a thousand directions, brings special anniversary concerts to UCLA with the help of Chinese pipa player Wu Man, Wilco's Nels Cline and Laurie Anderson.
How Terry Riley and Kronos Quartet turned the sun’s radiance into the most moving music (Micah Fluellen / Los Angeles Times) By Mark Swed Classical Music Critic . Dec. 30, 2020 6 AM PT .
Kronos Quartet's "Awakening," which the group will perform Friday at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, premiered last fall, a sonic quilt inspired by the events of Sept. 11, 2001, and ...
The Kronos Quartet is celebrating its 50th anniversary with several concerts June 20-23. By Georgia Rowe | Correspondent, Bay Area News Group UPDATED: June 20, 2024 at 8:10 AM PDT ...
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, ...
Kronos Quartet plays music from travel ban countries as political protest, but lets its Western roots take over. March 3, 2019. The mesmerizing Iranian singer Mahsa Vahdat sings with the Kronos ...