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	Kronos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kronos was the name of a secret workstation (32 bit, graphical user interface) developed in the Soviet Union in the mid 1980s.
		Kronos is the name of a circa-2003 (presumably) Italian dance project who released a number of Latin-language Italo-Dance songs, including "Magica Europa", "Salve Regina", and "Party's Deorum".
		Kronos is the name of the Titan that was commanded by Zeus to wander the Desert of Lost Souls in the video game God of War.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kronos (336 words)

	Kronos Quartet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kronos Quartet is a string quartet founded by violinist David Harrington in 1973.
		Kronos has collaborated with composers from a diversity of countries such as Franghiz Ali-Zadeh from Azerbaijan and Osvaldo Golijov from Argentina.
		Kronos has performed live with the likes of the late poet Allen Ginsberg, the Modern Jazz Quartet, David Bowie, and Bjork, and has appeared on recordings with such diverse talents as singer-songwriters Dave Matthews, Nelly Furtado, Rokia Traore, Joan Armatrading, and Texas yodeler Don Walser.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kronos_Quartet (816 words)

	Kronos Quartet: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A string quartet is a musical ensemble of four string instruments-usually two violins, a viola and cello-or a piece written to be performed by such...
		The cello (also violoncello or cello) is a stringed instrument and a member of the violin family....
		Kronos specializes in new music and has a long history of commissioning new works.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/k/kr/kronos_quartet.htm (804 words)

	Kronos Quartet
		For more than 30 years, the Kronos Quartet—David Harrington and John Sherba (violins), Hank Dutt (viola) and Jeffrey Zeigler (cello)—has pursued a singular artistic vision, combining a spirit of fearless exploration with a commitment to expanding the range and context of the string quartet.
		In the process, Kronos has become one of the most celebrated and influential ensembles of our time, performing thousands of concerts worldwide, releasing more than 40 recordings of extraordinary breadth and creativity, collaborating with many of the world's most eclectic composers and performers, and commissioning hundreds of works and arrangements for string quartet.
		Kronos has performed live with the likes of icons Allen Ginsberg, Modern Jazz Quartet, Tom Waits, Betty Carter, and David Bowie, and has appeared on recordings by such diverse talents as singer-songwriters Dave Matthews, Nelly Furtado, Rokia Traore, Joan Armatrading, and Texas yodeler Don Walser.
	www.kronosquartet.org /info/bio.html (429 words)

	NPR : Kronos Quartet - Process, In Rehearsal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Kronos Quartet spent an hour and 20 minutes on their first rehearsal of "Mini Skirt." Here's raw sound of the first minute.
		Kronos cellist Jennifer Culp demonstrates how she makes it snap with a sturdy guitar pick.
		Kronos second violinist John Sherba shows how the tone color changes as he switches from an ordinary mute, to a heavy practice mute, to no mute at all . . .
	www.npr.org /programs/inrehearsal/kronos/process.html (326 words)

	Kronos Quartet: Caravan
		Kronos Quartet (David Herrington, violin; John Sherba, violin; Hank Dutt, viola; Jennifer Culp, cello).
		And though they've preformed and recorded some of the core modernist quartets, Kronos has also commissioned and arranged over 400 others, and succeeded in making audiences respond to sometimes fiercely difficult music.
		The Taraf -- two violins, two accordions, cymbalum and double bass -- and Kronos revel in Perapeskero's dramatic colors, hard-driving rhythms and shifting textures, which range from strings alone to furious scales and wheezing chords on cymbalum and accordion which sound like music for a chase scene in a silent film.
	www.classical-music-review.org /reviews/Caravan.htm (600 words)

	TIME Special Advertising Feature: Kronos Quartet, Creators at Carnegie
		Synonymous with musical innovation, the Kronos Quartet is known for its unique artistic vision and fearless dedication to experimentation.
		Kronos performs annually in many cities and tours extensively, with more than 100 shows each year in concert halls, clubs and jazz festivals throughout the world.
		Kronos records exclusively for Nonesuch Records, and the group has been heard throughout the world on radio and television, in films and in live dance and theater performances.
	www.time.com /time/2003/carnegie/kronos.html (346 words)

	Kronos Quartet: Vaya Con Brio by Richard Byrne - The Globalist > > Global Music
		As a string quartet, they have skirted the boundaries of classical and pop music — and incorporated many of the world's musical varieties into their repertoire.
		Kronos Quartet violinist and artistic director David Harrington said that the busy streets of Mexico's capital, Mexico City, actually provided the inspiration for Nuevo.
		The Kronos Quartet also give a nod to the wacky world of Mexican television by performing a selection of comedy show theme songs written by Roberto Gomez Bolanos.
	www.theglobalist.com /DBWeb/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=2758 (1107 words)

	Kronos Quartet
		So Kronos Quartet was formed, and in 1973 they gave their first concert.
		I can't think of a time that so many wonderful things were happening." Indeed Kronos is living and working in a time when the group is able to travel around the world, collecting sounds of different cultures and finding ways to bring these sounds to the ears of its listeners.
		Kronos approaches the creation of new music with an intense curiosity and a desire to express what it is to be alive.
	saintpaulsunday.publicradio.org /featured_artists/kronos.html (617 words)

	CWF - Kronos Quartet
		Lang suggested that A.C.T. collaborate once again with the quartet: and the two (A.C.T. and Kronos) were eager to develop another project together, particularly one in which the musicians could be involved from the outset.
		The Kronos Quartet's artistic mission is the presentation and promotion of contemporary music and the expansion of the string quartet repertoire.
		Kronos records exclusively for Nonesuch Records and has received a 2003 Grammy Award along with numerous Grammy Award nominations for its catalogue of more than 40 recordings.
	www.creativeworkfund.org /pages/bios/kronos_quartet.html (1377 words)

	Kronos -- a Quartet With Attitude, Classical Notes, Peter Gutmann
		Kronos began playing traditional quartet music, skewed modern and spiced with jazz and rock arrangements (a frequent encore was Jimi Hendrix's “Purple Haze”).
		Beyond spawning Kronos, its demonic inventiveness, bizarre techniques, electronic manipulations and sheer brutality are as harrowing today as they must have been to Harrington the fateful night he first heard it.
		While some of the individual Kronos albums are conventional in approach if not content (ie: an integral set of quartets, albeit of Alfred Schnittke), the most intriguing are their “concept” compilations.
	www.classicalnotes.net /columns/kronos.html (1780 words)

	The Kronos Quartet butchers Mexican music. By Adam Baer
		For the better part of the past 25 years, the Kronos Quartet have been role models for anyone who appreciates—or wants to learn to appreciate—new music of quality.
		With the recently released Nuevo, a collection of mainly Mexican and Latin American tunes, the Kronos Quartet is no longer the same group of pioneers who warranted attention for their commitment to contemporary music and for their on-stage fire.
		Kronos splits the difference between the worst attitudes in the World Music camp: Half-assed reverence for the source material prevents them from really having any fun with it, and at the same time, they aren't exactly playing to their strong suit by sticking in the same ballpark with simple, bawdy songs.
	www.slate.com /?id=2068054 (1087 words)

	The New Yorker: The Critics: Musical Events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Kronos Quartet, which is in the middle of a six-concert series at Carnegie Hall, has enacted two revolutions in its more than three-decade life, one of style and one of substance.
		But Kronos wasn’t putting on a show; they were choosing to be their funky San Francisco selves, rather than checking their personalities at the door.
		Kronos performed “Mugam Sayagi” and “Apsheron Quintet.” The composer joined them on piano in the latter piece, and also played “Music for Piano,” for which, inspired by Cage’s prepared-piano pieces, she draped a necklace over the middle strings of the piano, making it sound lutelike.
	www.newyorker.com /critics/music/articles/060410crmu_music (1101 words)

	THE KRONOS QUARTET
		The Kronos Quartet are best known for their unique artistic vision and fearless dedication to experimentation.
		Later on, when Grey and the quartet crossed paths again, “[They] said that one of their sound engineers was thinking that maybe he wants to move on, and, if you're interested, we would like to call you at some point,” Grey recalls.
		Unlike most touring acts, the members of the Kronos Quartet carry all of their instruments personally and, because there is no equipment truck, Grey packs all of his sound gear in tagged and carry-on baggage.
	mixonline.com /livesound/tours/audio_kronos_quartet/index.html (1906 words)

	Kronos Quartet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		For more than 30 years, the Kronos Quartet— David Harrington and John Sherba (violins), Hank Dutt (viola) and Jennifer Culp (cello)—has pursued a singular artistic vision, combining a spirit of fearless exploration with a commitment to expanding the range and context of the string quartet.
		In addition to composers, Kronos counts many artists from around the world among its regular collaborators, including the renowned American soprano Dawn Upshaw; Mexican pop-rockers Café Tacuba; the Romanian gypsy band Taraf de Haidouks; and Chinese pipa virtuosa Wu Man, with whom the quartet performed composer Tan Dun’s Ghost Opera on disc and on tour.
		Kronos has performed live with the likes of icons Allen Ginsberg, Modern Jazz Quartet, Tom Waits, Betty Carter and David Bowie, and has appeared on recordings by such diverse talents as singer songwriters Dave Matthews, Nelly Furtado, Joan Armatrading and Texas yodeler Don Walser.
	carnegiehall.org /article/box_office/events/evt_4880_ma.html?... (495 words)

	Kronos Quartet: Caravan ---Ink Blot Magazine
		The Kronos Quartet was founded in 1973 when violinist Harrington heard George Crumb's "Black Angels" on the radio and resolved to form a quartet to play the piece.
		The Quartet has since gained attention for its sartorial and marketing flair, but what makes it important is its unusual repertoire; from Morton Feldman to Jimi Hendrix to George Crumb, Kronos is relentlessly devoted to the performance of modern music.
		The tunes are generally quite melodic and Kronos tackle them all, from the funereal "Szomorú Vasárnap" to the stirringly romantic "Pannonica Boundless," with unabashed ardor.
	www.inkblotmagazine.com /rev-archive/Kronos_Quartet_Caravan.htm (207 words)

	Kronos Quartet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Michael Gordon’s Potassium was commissioned for the Kronos Quartet by its Board of Directors on the occasion of Kronos’ 25th anniversary.
		String Quartet: Oculus pro oculo totum orbem terrae caecat was commissioned as part of the Kronos: Under 30 Project for the Kronos Quartet by the Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College; the Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation; and the Kronos Performing Arts Association.
		The Kronos: Under 30 Project is a commissioning and composer-in-residence program for composers under 30 years of age, created to acknowledge the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Kronos Quartet in 1973.
	carnegiehall.org /textSite/box_office/events/evt_4880.html?... (3531 words)

	Adventures in music / The Kronos Quartet celebrates 30 years of innovative sound with exhibition, performances
		San Francisco's Performing Arts Library is celebrating the quartet's 30th anniversary with a series of performances and other events, including a retrospective exhibition opening today, and a conversation Feb. 10 with Kronos and composer Terry Riley.
		The quartet -- which for more than 20 years featured Harrington, violinist John Sherba, violist Hank Dutt and cellist Joan Jeanrenaud, who was replaced by Jennifer Culp three years ago -- has performed with an equally diverse cast of artists.
		-- A conversation with the quartet and composer Terry Riley, 7 p.m.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/01/22/DD212073.DTL (998 words)

	ipedia.com: String quartet Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Although any combination of four string instruments may be called a "string quartet", in practice, the term almost always refers to a group consisting of two violins (the "first" and "second" violin), one viola and one cello.
		Mendelssohn's early quartet music shows a remarkable mastery of (and dependence upon) the formal procedures of Beethoven's late quartets, but with a highly original transformation of their expressive significance.
		Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936) - wrote seven string quartets, and numerous other compositions for string quartet (the Five Pieces of 1879-1881, the Five Novelettes Op.15, the Finale of the B-la-F Quartet and the first movement "Carol-singers" of the Name-day Quartet, the Suite Op.35, the Two Pieces of 1902, and the "Elegy for Belayev" Op.105).
	www.ipedia.com /string_quartet.html (2004 words)

	www.myspace.com/kronosquartet
		For more than 30 years, the Kronos Quartet has pursued a singular artistic vision, combining a spirit of fearless exploration with a commitment to expanding the range and context of the string quartet.
		In the process, Kronos has become one of the most celebrated and influential ensembles of our time, performing thousands of concerts worldwide, releasing more than 40 recordings of extraordinary breadth and commissioning more than 500 works and arrangements for string quartet.
		Kronos is equally prolific on CD, with a discography on Nonesuch Records including Pieces of Africa (1992), a showcase of African-born composers that simultaneously topped Billboard's Classical and World Music lists; Nuevo (2002), a Grammy- and Latin Grammy-nominated celebration of Mexican culture; and the 2003 Grammy-winner, Berg's Lyric Suite.
	www.myspace.com /kronosquartet (1126 words)

	Kronos Quartet News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		After five years of intermittent collaborations and long patient stretches of waiting, we are very, very pleased and honored to announce that the Kronos Quartet and Matmos will perform together in the Bay Area.
		Thirty-three years ago, when the Kronos Quartet was created with the express purpose of performing new music, it brought a breath of fresh air to an up-tight, locked-down classical music scene.
		The Lied Center of Kansas presents Kronos Quartet, a string quartet known for its unique artistry and musical innovation and experimentation.
	www.topix.net /who/kronos-quartet (653 words)

	E.J.N. - KRONOS QUARTET (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Quartet's extensive repertoire ranges from Shostakovich, Webern, Bartok and Ives to Astor Piazzolla, John Cage, Raymond Scott and Howlin' Wolf.
		The Quartet is currently working with many composers, including Franghiz Ali-Zadeh, Foday Musa Suso, Scott Johnson, Sofia Gubaidulina, Steven Mackey, John Oswald, Don Byron, Tan Dun, Peter Sculthorpe, Lois V.Vierk, Philip Glass and Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky.
		The Quartet records exclusively for Nonesuch Records, and the catalogue includes Kronos Quartet Performs Philip Glass (1995), Night Prayers (1994), Bob Ostertag's All The Rage (1993), At The Grave of Richard Wagner (1993), Morton Feldman's Piano and String Quartet (1993), Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki's String Quartet n.
	www.ejn.it /mus/kronos.htm (279 words)

	San Diego Arts Guide > Performing Arts, Theatre, Concerts, Dance, Symphony, Opera, Music, Arts, Museums, Balboa Park : ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Kronos enters its 32nd year still stunning audiences with an ever-widening repertoire, this time including the music of Sigur Ros, Steve Reich and many others.
		When Kronos recorded Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze" 19 years ago, the group risked seeming commercially desperate.
		Altogether Kronos has contributed over 400 additions to the quartet repertoire, from bottleneck-on-cello versions of Blind Willie Johnson to the group's recent collaboration with Bollywood singer Asha Bhosle.
	entertainment.signonsandiego.com /profile/280229?cslink=cs_arts_3_4 (279 words)

	Amazon.com: Black Angels: Music: George Crumb,Thomas Tallis,Istvan Marta,Charles Ives,Dmitry Shostakovich,Hank ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This is, like most of kronos' CDs, a remarkable collection of remarkable music, performed at their always incredible level of perfection.
		Personally, I consider it taxing but nonetheless worthwhile, but even devoted followers of the Kronos Quartet are likely to be turned off by the strident nature of the piece.
		Likewise, Kronos' interpretation of the well-known Shostakovich 8th quartet reveals that while they are at the forefront of modern music (commissioning new works regularly), when it comes the standard repertoire oftentimes they simply do not measure up.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000005J0D?v=glance (1687 words)

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