Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Kronos Quartet was founded in Seattle, Washington in 1973 by Artistic ...

The San Francisco-based Kronos Quartet will return to Rancho Nicasio for BBQ on the Lawn, July 24, at 4pm. Located on the Nicasio town square, Rancho Nicasio was established in 1941 and has retained ...

For more than 40 years, the Kronos Quartet—David Harrington (violin), John Sherba (violin), Hank Dutt (viola), and Sunny Yang (cello)—has pursued a singular artistic vision, combining a spirit of ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... For what it’s worth, the Beatles stayed together for about a decade. The Kronos Quartet, a boundary-pushing string ensemble, has lasted more than five times ...

Fifty years is a long time in the life of any music group. But listening to David Harrington talk about the Kronos Quartet, it’s easy to get the sense that the groundbreaking new music foursome is ...

Kronos Quartet has been challenging the idea of what a string quartet does ever since violinist David Harrington formed the group in 1973 in order to play George Crumb’s “Black Angels,” an unorthodox ...

Kronos Quartet are marking the 80th anniversary of the first nuclear detonation by covering Bob Dylan‘s “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” with the Hard Rain Collective. Proceeds benefit the Red Hot ...

Kronos Quartet doesn’t keep Jacob Garchik’s contributions to their polymorphously expanding repertoire under wraps, so describing the arranger as the group’s secret weapon misses the mark. But even ...

The group, which celebrated its birthday on Friday at Carnegie Hall, changed music with its open-eared and open-minded approach. By Zachary Woolfe In works like “John Somebody,” he mixed the ...

A master of the kora who worked with Herbie Hancock and Philip Glass, his career was powered as much by experimentation as by reverence for tradition. By Giovanni Russonello The venerable quartet ...