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The Kronos Performing Arts Association is proud to present a free library of 50 contemporary works designed to guide string quartets in developing and honing the skills required for the performance of 21st century repertoire. Launch 50 for the future.
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Kronos Quartet typically tours year-round. Each season, the...
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Songs and Symphoniques: The Music of Moondog is the fifth...
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Looking back on this year’s annual Kronos Festival, June...
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Kronos Quartet's Album from 1985 - 2019. Landfall,...
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Kronos Quartet & Mahsa Vahdat: Vaya, Vaya Kronos Quartet and...
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The Kronos Quartet is an American string quartet based in San Francisco. It has been in existence with a rotating membership of musicians for 50 years. The quartet covers a very broad range of musical genres, including contemporary classical music. More than 1,000 works have been written for it.
- 1973–present
- Seattle, Washington, U.S.
- David Harrington, John Sherba, Hank Dutt, Paul Wiancko
Kronos Quartet è un quartetto d'archi fondato nel 1973 dal violinista David Harrington. Dal 1978 il quartetto ha sede a San Francisco. Tra i vari riconoscimenti, il gruppo ha ottenuto diversi Grammy Award per la sezione della musica contemporanea.
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
The discography of the Kronos Quartet includes 43 studio albums, two compilations, five soundtracks, and 29 contributions to other artists' records. 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
Triple Quartet (1999) is a three-movement work written for three string quartets, and exists in three versions for performance: one for string quartet and pre-recorded tape, another for three string quartets (12 players) and the third for part of an orchestral string section of 36 players.