July 16, marked the 80th anniversary of the Trinity Test, the US military’s first detonation of a nuclear weapon in the deserts of New Mexico.

Two new renditions of Dylan’s “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall” memorialize the 80th anniversary of the Trinity test ...

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.

Kronos Quartet, ever spinning in a thousand directions, brings special anniversary concerts to UCLA with the help of Chinese pipa player Wu Man, Wilco's Nels Cline and Laurie Anderson.

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, ...

No one is ever going to say that Kronos Quartet is satisfied with the string quartet status quo. This group, founded nearly 50 years ago by violinist David Harrington, has, in its malleable ...

How Terry Riley and Kronos Quartet turned the sun’s radiance into the most moving music (Micah Fluellen / Los Angeles Times) By Mark Swed Classical Music Critic . Dec. 30, 2020 6 AM PT .

The revered and influential new-music quartet based in the Bay Area hosts a series of concerts June 20-23 celebrating its 50th anniversary.

Kronos Quartet's "Awakening," which the group will perform Friday at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, premiered last fall, a sonic quilt inspired by the events of Sept. 11, 2001, and ...

Kronos Quartet plays music from travel ban countries as political protest, but lets its Western roots take over. March 3, 2019. The mesmerizing Iranian singer Mahsa Vahdat sings with the Kronos ...

At 50, the Kronos Quartet Is Still Playing for the Future. The group, which celebrated its birthday on Friday at Carnegie Hall, changed music with its open-eared and open-minded approach.

Aleksandra Vrebalov: Horror of World War I drives composer of Kronos Quartet's 'Beyond Zero' It begins with the sound of an old recording - Béla Bartók playing his abstract 1916 solo piano suite ...