Music has a gleeful, devious way of slipping out of its bounds and speaking to us in surprising ways. But the Kronos Quartet, which presented "Beyond the Golden Gate," recently provided a droll ...

Violinist David Harrington, founder of new music pioneers Kronos Quartet, says a book his daughter gave him several years ago ignited his interest in the history of Chinese Americans and led him to ...

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 as long — 52 years and counting — though ...

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 ...

The Chamber Orchestra continued its Summermusik festival on Aug. 9 with the visionary Kronos Quartet headlining a program of “Trailblazers.” Miami's innovative ...

Apollo Frequencies is a series exploring sounds that seem to come from another world. In this week’s edition, Raphael Helfand attends a Kronos Quartet performance at the end of a summit for nuclear ...

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 ...

Today (July 16) marks the 80th anniversary of the Trinity test, during which a team of U.S. scientists led by J. Robert Oppenheimer detonated the world’s first atomic bomb in the deserts of New Mexico ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Kronos Quartet, l-r: Paul Wiancko (cello), David Harrington (violin), Ayane Kozasa (viola), ...

In August of 1973, Seattle-based violinist David Harrington listened to composer George Crumb's Black Angels for the first time on a radio program, This initial encounter with an amplified string ...