 | Kronos Quartet is a string quartet founded by violinist David Harrington in 1973. Since 1978, the quartet has been based in San Francisco, California. The longest-running combination of performers (from 1978 to 1999) had Harrington and John Sherba on violin, Hank Dutt on viola and Joan Jeanrenaud on cello. Jennifer Culp replaced Jeanrenaud in 1999, and Jeffrey Zeigler in turn replaced Culp in 2005. |
| Kronos covers a very broad range of musical genres: Mexican folk, experimental, pre-classical early music, movie soundtracks (Requiem for a Dream, Heat, The Fountain), jazz and tango. Kronos has even recorded adaptations of Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze", Sigur Rós's "Flugufrelsarinn," Television's "Marquee Moon", and Raymond Scott's "Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals". Kronos commissions about a dozen new works each season and performs more than 100 concerts a year, touring for 22 weeks to an average of 15 countries and 15 domestic states annually. Performances often include educational activities in conjunction with the San Francisco Bay Area home season and touring engagements in both rural communities as well as large urban centers. Kronos Quartet 2008 Summer Tour | |
| Date | Location | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 22 | John Wright Theatre, Fresno, California | CSU Summer Arts |
| Jul 27 | Rancho Nicasio, Nicasio, California | Rancho Nicasio |
| Aug 1 | Novellus Theater, San Francisco, California | Yerba Buena Center for the Arts |
| Aug 2 | Novellus Theater, San Francisco, California | Yerba Buena Center for the Arts |
| Aug 14 | Seiji Ozawa Hall, Lenox, Massachusetts | Tanglewood Festival |
| Sep 3 | Martin Theatre, Highland Park, Illinois | Ravinia Festival |
| Sep 10 | Phillips Center, Gainesville, Florida | University of Florida Performing Arts |
| Sep 12 | Orpheum Theatre, Phoenix, Arizona | Phoenix Symphony |
| Sep 14 | Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, Arizona | Phoenix Symphony |
| Requim for a Dream (Lord of the Rings) - Clint Mansell's "Lux Aeterna" Kronos Quartet live in Bucharest. (May 11, 2008) Video by Cezar Paul-Badescu |
| SOURCE: Kronos Quartet Summer Tour |
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