The San Francisco-based Kronos Quartet will return to Rancho Nicasio for BBQ on the Lawn, July 24, at 4pm. Located on the Nicasio town square, Rancho Nicasio was established in 1941 and has retained ...

For more than 40 years, the Kronos Quartet—David Harrington (violin), John Sherba (violin), Hank Dutt (viola), and Sunny Yang (cello)—has pursued a singular artistic vision, combining a spirit of ...

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 ...

Kronos Quartet has been challenging the idea of what a string quartet does ever since violinist David Harrington formed the group in 1973 in order to play George Crumb’s “Black Angels,” an unorthodox ...

Fifty years is a long time in the life of any music group. But listening to David Harrington talk about the Kronos Quartet, it’s easy to get the sense that the groundbreaking new music foursome is ...

Kronos Quartet has commissioned 50 pieces of music for its latest project, Fifty for the Future. Irish composer and violist Garth Knox recently wrote a piece called Satellites, which, he says, tries ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Kronos Quartet will present concerts featuring the Mỹ Lai Suite (adapted from the ...

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 ...

The group, which celebrated its birthday on Friday at Carnegie Hall, changed music with its open-eared and open-minded approach. By Zachary Woolfe In works like “John Somebody,” he mixed the ...

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 ...