Kronos Quartet performing at the Sacrum Profanum Festival in Krakow in September 2014 (courtesy Cinetic Media) There’s a healthy tradition of screening movies with musicians performing the score live.

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 ...

You might think traditional West African music and Western classical music would share little common ground. But Ladilikan, the album from Mali's Trio Da Kali and San Francisco's Kronos Quartet is a ...

In 1973, a young Seattle violinist named David Harrington heard a broadcast of George Crumb's "Black Angels" for electric string quartet, the composer's response to the Vietnam War. which includes ...

Kronos Quartet is celebrating 40 years of playing music together — and to mark the occasion, they're playing a celebration concert at Carnegie Hall in New York tomorrow night. Since their founding, ...

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 ...

In support of Aheym, the National‘s Bryce Dessner sat down with members of Kronos Quartet for this video in which they discuss the connection that led to their recent collaborative album, which was ...

Forty is old for a string quartet but not ancient. The Budapest String Quartet, founded in 1917, lasted 50 but with no original members after its first 15 years. The Juilliard String Quartet has been ...

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 ...

Responding to the Anniversary of 9/11 With a Call to Erode Cultural Borders It would have been inconceivable to let the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks pass without commentary from ...

When you think about a string quartet, you don’t necessarily imagine wanting to get up and dance. But San Francisco-based Kronos Quartet has been pushing the boundaries of classical music for more ...