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Kronos Quartet is a string quartet founded by violinist David Harrington in 1973. Since 1978, the quartet has been based in San Francisco, California. The longest-running combination of performers (1978–1999) had Harrington and John Sherba on violin, Hank Dutt on viola and Joan Jeanrenaud on cello. Jennifer Culp replaced Jeanrenaud on cello in 1999. Jeffrey Zeigler replaced Culp on cello in 2005.
Recently, the Kronos Quartet began a commission process for composers under the age of 30, in the hope of bringing some of the talented young composers of our day to light.
Kronos specializes in new music and has a long history of commissioning new works. In fact, over 600 works have been created for the Kronos Quartet. They have worked with many minimalist composers including Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Terry Riley and Kevin Volans.
Kronos has collaborated with composers from diverse countries such as Franghiz Ali Zadeh from Azerbaijan and Osvaldo Golijov from Argentina. Golijov is a MacArthur Fellow who has done compositions and arrangements for Kronos CDs such as Caravan and Nuevo.
Kronos covers a very broad range of musical genres: Mexican folk, experimental, pre-classical early music, movie soundtracks (Requiem for a Dream), jazz and tango. Kronos has even recorded adaptations of
Purple Haze, Flugufrelsarinn, Marquee Moon, and Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals.
Recently, the Kronos Quartet began a commission process for composers under the age of 30, in the hope of bringing some of the talented young composers of our day to light.
Kronos specializes in new music and has a long history of commissioning new works. In fact, over 600 works have been created for the Kronos Quartet. They have worked with many minimalist composers including Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Terry Riley and Kevin Volans.
Kronos has collaborated with composers from diverse countries such as Franghiz Ali Zadeh from Azerbaijan and Osvaldo Golijov from Argentina. Golijov is a MacArthur Fellow who has done compositions and arrangements for Kronos CDs such as Caravan and Nuevo.
Kronos covers a very broad range of musical genres: Mexican folk, experimental, pre-classical early music, movie soundtracks (Requiem for a Dream), jazz and tango. Kronos has even recorded adaptations of
Purple Haze, Flugufrelsarinn, Marquee Moon, and Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals.
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Caravan
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Pieces of Africa
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Terry Riley - Cadenza On The Night Plain
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Shoutbox
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Den_Saakaldte wrote:
Absolutely love them playing Astor Piazzolla! And love Spotify for having it.
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Araken_Starway wrote:
great stuff
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faith_fractured wrote:
klass!
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k1h wrote:
come to London again please!
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ODIUMMUIDO wrote:
Floodplain is amazing
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giselediaz wrote:
Thanks for reminding appalachian Blind Willy Johnson in Dark Was The Night compilation http://hypem.com/#/search/Dark%20was%20the%20night/1/ http://www.myspace.com/darkwasthenight
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TQuacky wrote:
David Harrington (founder and violinist for Kronos Quartet) just did a great interview with Globecat. Check out part 1 right here: http://globecat.blogspot.com/2009/07/interview-kronos-quartet-part-i.html
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princeofunivers wrote:
Kronos Quartet (Clint Mansell - The Fountain) Live Madrid - WOW !!!!!
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Autoviuda wrote:
I need some lovin' like a fastball needs control...
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Hekerui wrote:
The original by Ram Narayan:
Raga Mishra Bhairavi: I Alap
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vihreakuolema wrote:
floodplain is stunning!
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Cronopio321 wrote:
FREE IS FREE, FOR EVERYBODY
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FREE IS FREE, FOR EVERYBODY
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valitsaki wrote:
Hmmmm, well, sorry to dissapoint you wawawi, but this wouldn't be possible, firstly because there's no chance a doctor would give you the corpse, and because after a while, you would lost your abillity to "get pregnant". Then again, if your man knew about your "secret foetus room" you'd have lost your abillity for sex too so........ Sorry sugar but that's not funny, it's beyond "black humour" limits and there are people out there who have suffered and still not fully recovered from the loss of a baby, so stop spaming every artists shoutbox with bullshits.
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Starless_night wrote:
wow.... that was really... interesting please tell us more wawawi
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ayex wrote:
wawawi, dude u r sick u know that? :D I believe with other words u want to say u love 'em .
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gEEEERa wrote:
winter was hard <3
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boroboro222 wrote:
Hi to all! i just found a place where to download acid jazz mp3 to hard drive http://mp3downloadserver.net/ jazzzinggg ;)
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starbucksqueen wrote:
Winter: Lux Aeterna is a very wonderful song
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Russianone wrote:
The Fountain OST is awesome, everyone should try it )
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Adams & Kronos Quartet
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles CA, United States
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Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Urbana, IL, United States
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Friends of Chamber Music
Kaul Auditorium, Reed College, Portland, OR, United States
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News
Kronos & Rahayu Supanggah: Purnati
20 Oct 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/kronosquartet
Earlier this year Kronos visited the Bali Purnati Center for the Arts to work with Rahayu Supanggah on a new piece called "Purnati". On October 24, please join us for the world premiere of the site-sp. …
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