Mỹ Lai is a powerful story about the Mỹ Lai massacre and the ethical dilemmas of an individual placed in an impossible situation, with a dramatic score emphasizing the bleakness and horror of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We rarely invite the same band back to the Tiny Desk. But the beloved Kronos Quartet, which first played our offices 12 years ago, isn't the same band. Three of the four members are brand new: Cellist ...

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 ...

For more than half a century Kronos Quartet has put the “new” in new music. Thomas Edison’s famously productive laboratory has nothing on David Harrington’s string ensemble when it comes to ...

On Friday, April 23, 2022 at 9:30pm, Carnegie Hall presents the renowned Kronos Quartet at Zankel Hall. Their program features George Crumb's Black Angels, the iconic work that inspired the founding ...