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| - | '''Kronos Quartet''' is a [[string quartet]] founded by [[violin]]ist David Harrington in 1973. Since 1978, the quartet has been based in [[San Francisco, California]]. The longest-running combination of performers (from 1978 to 1999) had Harrington and John Sherba on violin, Hank Dutt on [[viola]] and Joan Jeanrenaud on [[cello]]. Jennifer Culp replaced Jeanrenaud in 1999, and Jeffrey Zeigler in turn replaced Culp in 2005. | ||
| - | ==Diverse genres== | ||
| - | Kronos covers a very broad range of [[musical genre]]s: [[Music of Mexico|Mexican folk]], [[experimental music|experimental]], pre-classical [[early music]], movie soundtracks (''[[Requiem for a Dream (soundtrack)|Requiem for a Dream]]'', ''[[Heat (film)|Heat]]'', ''[[The Fountain (film)|The Fountain]]''), [[jazz]] and [[tango music|tango]]. Kronos has even recorded adaptations of [[Jimi Hendrix]]'s "[[Purple Haze]]", [[Sigur Rós]]'s "Flugufrelsarinn," [[Television (band)|Television]]'s "[[Marquee Moon]]", and [[Raymond Scott]]'s "Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals". | ||
| - | Composers aside, Kronos has teamed up with artists from around the world, including [[Bollywood]] [[playback singer]] [[Asha Bhosle]]; Mexican-American painter [[Gronk]]; the American [[soprano]] [[Dawn Upshaw]]; [[jazz]] composer/performer [[Pat Metheny]]; [[Mexican]] [[Rock music|rockers]] [[Café Tacuba]]; and the [[Romania]]n [[Roma people|gypsy]] band [[Taraf de Haidouks]]. | + | The '''Kronos Quartet''' is an American [[string quartet]] based in [[San Francisco]] founded by [[violin]]ist David Harrington in [[Seattle, Washington]]. Its first performance was in November 1973. |
| + | ==Diverse genres== | ||
| - | Kronos has performed live with the likes of the late [[poet]] [[Allen Ginsberg]], [[Astor Piazzolla]], the [[Modern Jazz Quartet]], [[Tom Waits]], [[David Bowie]], and [[Björk]], and has appeared on recordings with such diverse talents as singer-songwriters [[Dave Matthews]], [[Nelly Furtado]], [[Rokia Traore]], [[Joan Armatrading]], Brazilian [[electronica]] artist [[Amon Tobin]], Texas [[yodeler]] [[Don Walser]], [[Faith No More]], [[Tiger Lillies]] and [[David Grisman]]. | + | :"I've always wanted the string quartet to be vital, and energetic, and alive, and cool, and not afraid to kick ass and be absolutely beautiful and ugly if it has to be. But it has to be expressive of life. To tell the story with grace and humor and depth. And to tell the whole story, if possible." —David Harrington |
| - | ==Recordings to 2006== | + | |
| - | *''Kronos Quartet Plays Music of [[Thelonious Monk]]'' (1985) | + | |
| - | *''[[Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters]]'': Soundtrack composed by [[Philip Glass]] (1985) | + | |
| - | *''Kronos Quartet'' (1986), with music of [[Peter Sculthorpe]], [[Aulis Sallinen]], [[Philip Glass]], [[Conlon Nancarrow]] and an arrangement of [[Jimi Hendrix]]'s "Purple Haze". | + | |
| - | *''Music of [[Bill Evans]]'' (1986) | + | |
| - | *''White Man Sleeps'' (1987) | + | |
| - | *''[[Terry Riley]]: Cadenza on the Night Plain'' (1988) | + | |
| - | *''Winter Was Hard'' with music of [[Aulis Sallinen]], [[Terry Riley]], [[Arvo Pärt]], [[Anton Webern]], [[John Zorn]], [[John Lurie]], [[Astor Piazzolla]], [[Alfred Schnittke]] and [[Samuel Barber]] (1988) | + | |
| - | *''Kronos Quartet Plays [[Terry Riley]]: Salome Dances for Peace'' (1989) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Steve Reich]]: [[Different Trains]]'' (1989) | + | |
| - | * ''Black Angels'' (including [[George Crumb]]'s ''[[Black Angels (Crumb)|Black Angels]]'') (1990) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Witold Lutosławski]]: String Quartet'' (1991) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Kevin Volans]]: Hunting:Gathering'' (1991) | + | |
| - | * ''Five Tango Sensations'' (with [[Ástor Piazzolla]]) (1991) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Henryk Górecki]]: Already It Is Dusk'' (1991) | + | |
| - | * ''Pieces of Africa'' (1992) (music by seven [[Africa]]n composers) | + | |
| - | * ''Short Stories'' (1993) | + | |
| - | *''[[Henryk Górecki]]: String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2'' (1993) | + | |
| - | *''[[Morton Feldman]]: Piano and String Quartet'' (1993) (with pianist [[Aki Takahashi]]) | + | |
| - | *''At the Grave of Richard Wagner'' (1993) | + | |
| - | *''Bob Ostertag: All the Rage'' (1993) | + | |
| - | *''Night Prayers'' (1994) | + | |
| - | *''Kronos Quartet Performs [[Philip Glass]]'' (1995) | + | |
| - | * ''Released: 1985-1995'' (1995) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Heat (film)|Heat]]'' (Soundtrack) (1995) | + | |
| - | * ''Howl, USA'' ([[Allen Ginsberg]]'s poem ''[[Howl]]'' set to music, as well as other [[Cold War]] pieces) (1996) | + | |
| - | *''[[Osvaldo Golijov]]: The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind'' (1997) | + | |
| - | *''[[Tan Dun]]: Ghost Opera'' (1997) | + | |
| - | *''Early Music'' (1997) | + | |
| - | *''Kronos Quartet Performs [[Alfred Schnittke]]: The Complete String Quartets'' (1998) | + | |
| - | * ''[[John Coolidge Adams|John Adams]]: [[John's Book of Alleged Dances]]'' (1998) | + | |
| - | * ''Kronos Quartet: 25 Years'' (10 discs) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Dracula]]'' (Soundtrack by [[Philip Glass]]) (1999) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Requiem for a Dream (soundtrack)|Requiem for a Dream]]'' (Soundtrack by [[Clint Mansell]]) (2000) | + | |
| - | * ''Caravan'' (2000) (with guest artists: [[Zakir Hussain (musician)|Zakir Hussain]], [[Taraf de Haidouks]], [[Kayhan Kalhor]], Ziya Tabbassian, Ali Jihad Racy, Souhail Kaspar, [[Martyn Jones]]) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Steve Reich]]: Triple Quartet'' (2001) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Terry Riley]]: Requiem for Adam'' (2001) | + | |
| - | * ''Nuevo'' (music of [[Mexico|Mexican]] composers) (2002) | + | |
| - | *''[[Alban Berg]]: Lyric Suite'' (2003) | + | |
| - | *''[[Harry Partch]]: U.S. Highball'' (2003) | + | |
| - | *''[[Peteris Vasks]]: String Quartet No. 4'' (2003) | + | |
| - | *''Mugam Sayagi: Music of Franghiz Ali-Zadeh'' (2005) | + | |
| - | *''You've Stolen My Heart by Kronos Quartet, [[Asha Bhosle]]'' (Released August 2005), a tribute to [[Rahul Dev Burman]]. | + | |
| - | *''[[The Fountain (film)|The Fountain]]'' (Soundtrack by [[Clint Mansell]]) (2006) | + | |
| - | *''[[Henryk Górecki]]: String Quartet No. 3 '...songs are sung''' (2006) | + | |
| + | Kronos covers a very broad range of [[musical genre]]s: [[Music of Mexico|Mexican folk]], [[experimental music|experimental]], pre-classical [[early music]], movie soundtracks (''[[Requiem for a Dream (soundtrack)|Requiem for a Dream]]'', ''[[Heat (1995 film)|Heat]]'', ''[[The Fountain (film)|The Fountain]]''), [[jazz]] and [[tango music|tango]]. Kronos has also recorded adaptations of [[Jimi Hendrix]]'s "[[Purple Haze]]", [[Sigur Rós]]'s "Flugufrelsarinn", [[Television (band)|Television]]'s "[[Marquee Moon]]", [[Raymond Scott]]'s "Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals", and Bob Dylan's "[[Don't Think Twice, It's All Right]]". | ||
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| + | Kronos has also worked with a variety of global musicians, including [[Bollywood]] [[playback singer]] [[Asha Bhosle]]; Mexican-American painter [[Gronk (artist)|Gronk]]; American [[soprano]] [[Dawn Upshaw]]; [[jazz]] composer/performer [[Pat Metheny]]; [[Mexican people|Mexican]] [[Rock music|rockers]] [[Café Tacuba]]; [[Azerbaijani people|Azerbaijani]] [[mugam]] singer [[Alim Qasimov]]; and the Romanian [[Romani people|gypsy]] band [[Taraf de Haïdouks]] among others. | ||
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| + | Kronos has performed live with the poet [[Allen Ginsberg]], [[Ástor Piazzolla]], [[The National (band)|The National]], the [[Modern Jazz Quartet]], [[Tom Waits]], [[David Bowie]], [[Paul McCartney]] and [[Björk]], and has appeared on recordings with [[Nelly Furtado]], [[Rokia Traore]], [[Joan Armatrading]], Brazilian [[electronica]] artist [[Amon Tobin]], Texas [[yodeler]] [[Don Walser]], [[Faith No More]], [[Tiger Lillies]] and [[David Grisman]]. | ||
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| + | On the 1998 [[Dave Matthews Band]] album ''[[Before These Crowded Streets]]'', Kronos Quartet performed on the tracks "Halloween" and "The Stone". They also appeared on the 2007 [[Nine Inch Nails]] remix album, ''[[Year Zero Remixed]]'' doing a rendition of the track "Another Version of the Truth"". They also performed [[Lee Brooks]]' score for the short film ''[[2081 (film)|2081]]'', based on the [[Kurt Vonnegut]] short story "[[Harrison Bergeron]]." | ||
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| + | In 2009, the quartet contributed an acoustic version of Blind Willie Johnson's "Dark Was the Night" for the AIDS benefit album [[Dark Was the Night]] produced by the [[Red Hot Organization]]. | ||
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The Kronos Quartet is an American string quartet based in San Francisco founded by violinist David Harrington in Seattle, Washington. Its first performance was in November 1973.
Diverse genres
- "I've always wanted the string quartet to be vital, and energetic, and alive, and cool, and not afraid to kick ass and be absolutely beautiful and ugly if it has to be. But it has to be expressive of life. To tell the story with grace and humor and depth. And to tell the whole story, if possible." —David Harrington
Kronos covers a very broad range of musical genres: Mexican folk, experimental, pre-classical early music, movie soundtracks (Requiem for a Dream, Heat, The Fountain), jazz and tango. Kronos has also recorded adaptations of Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze", Sigur Rós's "Flugufrelsarinn", Television's "Marquee Moon", Raymond Scott's "Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals", and Bob Dylan's "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right".
Kronos has also worked with a variety of global musicians, including Bollywood playback singer Asha Bhosle; Mexican-American painter Gronk; American soprano Dawn Upshaw; jazz composer/performer Pat Metheny; Mexican rockers Café Tacuba; Azerbaijani mugam singer Alim Qasimov; and the Romanian gypsy band Taraf de Haïdouks among others.
Kronos has performed live with the poet Allen Ginsberg, Ástor Piazzolla, The National, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Tom Waits, David Bowie, Paul McCartney and Björk, and has appeared on recordings with Nelly Furtado, Rokia Traore, Joan Armatrading, Brazilian electronica artist Amon Tobin, Texas yodeler Don Walser, Faith No More, Tiger Lillies and David Grisman.
On the 1998 Dave Matthews Band album Before These Crowded Streets, Kronos Quartet performed on the tracks "Halloween" and "The Stone". They also appeared on the 2007 Nine Inch Nails remix album, Year Zero Remixed doing a rendition of the track "Another Version of the Truth"". They also performed Lee Brooks' score for the short film 2081, based on the Kurt Vonnegut short story "Harrison Bergeron."
In 2009, the quartet contributed an acoustic version of Blind Willie Johnson's "Dark Was the Night" for the AIDS benefit album Dark Was the Night produced by the Red Hot Organization.
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