No one is ever going to say that Kronos Quartet is satisfied with the string quartet status quo. This group, founded nearly 50 years ago by violinist David Harrington, has, in its malleable ...

On the final evening of the Nobel Laureate Assembly for the Prevention of Nuclear War, Kronos Quartet played a stirring ...

On July 16, 1945, the United States carried out the Trinity test, the world’s first nuclear detonation. Today, 80 years later ...

Rachel Barton Pine will open the mainstage season of Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra’s Summermusik festival Aug. 2 and 3 with ...

Two new renditions of Dylan’s “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall” memorialize the 80th anniversary of the Trinity test ...

How Terry Riley and Kronos Quartet turned the sun’s radiance into the most moving music (Micah Fluellen / Los Angeles Times) By Mark Swed Classical Music Critic . Dec. 30, 2020 6 AM PT .

Kronos Quartet, ever spinning in a thousand directions, brings special anniversary concerts to UCLA with the help of Chinese pipa player Wu Man, Wilco's Nels Cline and Laurie Anderson.

The Kronos Quartet, founded in 1973 by violinist David Harrington, were always eager collaborators, but for a long time, often a bit tidy and safe - not anymore. They have now done two ...

Kronos Quartet plays music from travel ban countries as political protest, but lets its Western roots take over. March 3, 2019. The mesmerizing Iranian singer Mahsa Vahdat sings with the Kronos ...

For 30 years, the Kronos Quartet has been at the forefront of avant- garde music (collaborating with everyone from Philip Glass to Tom Waits), but rarely has the group experienced the kind of ...

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.

Kronos Quartet's "Awakening," which the group will perform Friday at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, premiered last fall, a sonic quilt inspired by the events of Sept. 11, 2001, and ...