It appears purely coincidental that Thelonious Monk’s posthumous Pulitzer Prize for music in 2006 came only two years before Bob Dylan was awarded a Pulitzer of his own. But these two very different ...
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If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. When Kronos Quartet founder David Harrington hears about the music that follows the world premiere on Saturday of his ensemble ...
The “avatar of ‘post-classical’ music—the virtuosic string quartet ETHEL (The New Yorker)” and legendary bassist Ron Carter join forces for an unforgettable classical-jazz mashup performance at Zankel ...
If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. Sunday morning breakfast grins with pleasantries: a wine glass full of cold orange juice, a saucer of white grits covered in ...
Violinist David Harrington remembers being 14 years old, already a well-formed music fanatic, staring at a globe of the world “and realizing at that moment,” he says, “that all the string quartet ...
Has anyone commissioned more musical works than the Kronos Quartet? It’s doubtful. Over the last 45 years, the San Francisco-based string quartet has commissioned some 950 pieces — and yes, that tally ...
2 Tony Awards Committee Determines Eligibility For SCHMIGADOON!, CATS & More Rounding out the program are Laurie Anderson's Flow; film music by Clint Mansell from Requiem for a Dream and The Fountain, ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook The group, which celebrated its birthday on Friday at Carnegie Hall, changed music with its open-eared and open-minded approach. By ...
So many string quartets bear names that reference a person or a place. While Kronos Quartet’s name comes from a cannibalistic god with a thing for conflict, it also deliberately alludes to the Greek ...