Kronos Quartet San Francisco, California
For more than 45 years, San Francisco’s Grammy-winning Kronos Quartet and its nonprofit Kronos Performing Arts Association have reimagined and redefined the string quartet experience through thousands of concerts, over 60 recordings, collaborations with composers and performers from around the globe, over 1,000 commissioned works, and education programs for emerging musicians. ... more
Kronos Quartet recommends:
Placeless
by Kronos Quartet featuring Mahsa Vahdat & Marjan Vahdat
Kronos' collaboration with Iranian composer and vocalist Mahsa Vahdat, featuring her sister Marjan Vahdat on vocals. The song lyrics are poems by Hafez, Rumi, Forough Farrokhzad, and more.
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The Gorey End
by The Tiger Lillies
Long out of print, this Grammy-nominated collaboration with the English punk cabaret trio brings the macabre and darkly funny words and images of Edward Gorey to musical life.
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All The Rage with Kronos Quartet & Eric Gupton
by Bob Ostertag
Developed from a recording made of the AB101 Veto Riot in San Francisco in Oct. 1991, which followed the veto of a bill designed to protect gays and lesbians from discrimination. Text by Sara Miles.
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Promises
by Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra
Clouded Yellow
by Kronos Quartet & Michael Gordon
supported by 15 fans who also own “Spirit II”
I don't need every Kronos performance to be one that shakes me to my essence, but I do always want them to be interesting. Kronos has been my gateway to discovering a lot of composers I never knew of before, so this one is worth checking out.
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Fragile cello and piano recall the bleak childhood of brothers Sebastian and Daniel Selke spent in a large prefab estate in East Berlin.
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