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Il Kronos Quartet all' Auditorium Arvedi di Cremona

by Vincenzo Roggero
May 30, 2017

Kronos Quartet Cremona Jazz 2017 Auditorium Giovanni Arvedi 21.05.2017 Doveva accadere prima o poi, quasi fosse scritto nelle stelle che si dovessero incontrare. E così è stato. L'Auditorium Arvedi, cuore pulsante e capolavoro architettonico/acustico del Museo del violino di Cremona ha ospitato il Kronos Quartet, quartetto d'archi di musica contemporanea a suo modo rivoluzionario per la trasversalità di approccio al materiale compositivo, per una storia di incontri sorprendenti documentata da dischi eccellenti, per la capacità ...

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Kronos Festival 2017

by Harry S. Pariser
February 12, 2017

Kronos Quartet SFJAZZ Kronos Festival 2017 San Francisco, CA February 4-6, 2017 “I'd started playing string quartets when I was 12, and one day when I was 14, I was gazing at a map of the world and suddenly realized that all the quartet music I'd ever heard--Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert--came from a single city: Vienna. A simple question came to me: 'What did music from other cities and countries sound like?' A door ...

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Album Review

Kronos Quartet / Wu Man: Terry Riley: The Cusp of Magic

Read "Terry Riley: The Cusp of Magic" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
April 3, 2008

Of the many artists whose work the longstanding Kronos Quartet has commissioned, none has been approached more often than Terry Riley. Riley is one of the founding fathers of minimalism, the late-1960s classical sub genre where repetition of a number of varying length musical fragments creates an ever-shifting landscape often defined by its hypnotic and transcendent nature. As a composer, Riley has evolved significantly since his classic A Rainbow in Curved Air (Columbia, 1969), a trance-inducing masterpiece of overdubbed keyboards, ...

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Kronos Quartet: Mugam Sayagi: Music of Franghiz Ali-Zadeh

Read "Mugam Sayagi: Music of Franghiz Ali-Zadeh" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
March 12, 2005

Well-known for a broad world view and a modernistic avoidance of the purely classical tradition, the Kronos Quartet has become something of a yardstick by which other contemporary string quartets are measured. Other quartets out there may be similarly fearless in their openness to new ideas and techniques, not to mention technology—like Ethel, which is as much in search of ways to keep the string quartet moving forward. But Kronos' reputation, built on a career that has lasted over thirty ...