Legendary music mavens Kronos Quartet will be celebrating
their 40th year anniversary at the Stern Grove Festival happening on
July 14, 2013 at 2:00 in the afternoon.
The opening performers will be the Real Vocal String Quartet
and the Geographer with Magik*Magik Quartet.
Kronos Quartet is an American string quartet founded by
violinist David Harrington in 1973 in Seattle, Washington. The group
specializes in new music/contemporary classical music and has a long history of
commissioning new works.
Over 750 works have been created for the Kronos Quartet.
They have worked with many minimalist composers including John Adams, Arvo
Pärt, George Crumb, Henryk Górecki, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Terry Riley, and
Kevin Volans; collaborators hail from a diversity of countries--Kaija Saariaho
from Finland, Pēteris Vasks from Latvia, Franghiz Ali-Zadeh from Azerbaijan,
and Osvaldo Golijov from Argentina. Some of Kronos' string-quartet arrangements
were published in 2007.
This event is open and free for all.
For more information, please visit http://www.sterngrove.org.
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