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 ...

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 ...

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The music presented by the Kronos Quartet on Saturday night in Alice Tully Hall seemed, at first, to have little to do with the changing purple, green and yellow lights shining on the pipe organ ...

For more than half a century Kronos Quartet has put the “new” in new music. Thomas Edison’s famously productive laboratory has nothing on David Harrington’s string ensemble when it comes to ...

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 ...

BERKELEY, Calif. (BCN) - San Francisco's famed Kronos Quartet will perform at University of California at Berkeley's Zellerbach Hall on Jan. 25 with a world premiere of new works in its "Fifty for the ...

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 as long — 52 years and counting — though ...

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A master of the kora who worked with Herbie Hancock and Philip Glass, his career was powered as much by experimentation as by reverence for tradition. By Giovanni Russonello The venerable quartet ...