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Through its nonprofit organization, Kronos Performing Arts Association (KPAA), Kronos has commissioned more than 1,100 works and arrangements for string quartet—including the recently completed 50 for the Future library of free, educational repertoire.
This is the official Youtube channel of the Kronos Quartet. Kronos has been reimagining the string quartet experience for 50 years. https://www.kronosquartet.org
Oct 23, 2023 · Last modified on Mon 23 Oct 2023 08.41 EDT. T his remarkable San Francisco collective have now been reinventing the string quartet for 50 years, playing everything from Argentine tango to ...
Nov 3, 2023 · Kronos Quartet. For 50 years, San Francisco’s Kronos Quartet has reimagined what the string quartet experience can be. One of the most celebrated and influential groups of our era, Kronos has given thousands of concerts worldwide, released more than 70 recordings, and collaborated with many of the ... Read More. Stay Up to Date.
The Essential Kronos Quartet. Michael Zwiebach on January 4, 2022. Kronos Quartet | Credit: Festival Grec de Barcelona. It’s no stretch to say that music for string quartet would look very different, toward the end of the 20th century, without the Kronos Quartet.
Apr 23, 2024 · Last year, the Kronos Quartet, the long-running experimental ensemble, worked with Ghost Train Orchestra to release a Moondog tribute album. This year, they’re saluting another titan of ...
The Kronos Quartet plays classical, pop, rock, jazz, folk, world and contemporary classical music (often written especially for them by for instance Philip Glass, Terry Riley, Alexandra Vrebalov, ...) and was founded in 1973 by violinist David Harrington. Since 1978, they are based in San Francisco, California.
