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 ...

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 ...

Kronos Quartet, the United States’ best-known string quartet, famous for its crossover projects and advocacy of new music, has been celebrating its 50th-anniversary season with a Five Decades tour. It ...

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. Since their founding, ...

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 ...

A daily chronicle of creativity in film, TV, music, arts, and entertainment, produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from November 2014 – March 2020. Host John Horn leads the ...

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 ...

FOR DECADES string-quartet recitals conjured an image of men in tailcoats demurely playing staid classical works in a concert hall. But the Kronos Quartet took to the stage in San Francisco on June ...

Kronos Quartet performing at the Sacrum Profanum Festival in Krakow in September 2014 (courtesy Cinetic Media) There’s a healthy tradition of screening movies with musicians performing the score live.

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by By Steve Smith CREDIT for inventing the string quartet tends to be laid at the feet of Joseph Haydn, that industrious, fecund genius whose life’s work ...

You know you've witnessed something far out of the ordinary when you have to say that the most incongruous sight on Wednesday night was the presence of a string quartet on the stage of Koerner Hall.

Forty is old for a string quartet but not ancient. The Budapest String Quartet, founded in 1917, lasted 50 but with no original members after its first 15 years. The Juilliard String Quartet has been ...