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Jay Edgar on October 6, 2021
Perhaps best known for their terrific movie scores (including the iconic soundtrack for Minority Report), the Kronos Quartet’s constantly-changing membership have spanned four decades and over 900 commissioned works across a plethora of genres. Documentarian Sam Green (The Weather Underground) collaborated with the group to create a new kind of biographical piece:…
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Julia Canavese on October 18, 2018
The Bay Area-based Kronos Quartet is known for its innovative approach to string music. In this concert, Kronos uses its powers to break down barriers by taking aim at Donald Trump’s 2017 executive orders restricting travel from predominantly Muslim-majority countries. Drawing from the musical traditions of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria…
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Gary Singh on October 1, 2014
Leave it to Kronos Quartet to deliver a program exploring ethnic wars, genocide, bombings, Afro-Cuban percussion, liturgical Jewish prayers, Tibetan mysticism and the Brooklyn Bridge. As they’ve done for 40 years now, Kronos continues to interpret the future of the string quartet, and the program they have planned for this Sunday, at…
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