Kronos Quartet
Short Stories

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Track Listing

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1	Digital (Elliott Sharp)	2:34
2	Spoonful (Willie Dixon)	4:29
3	Spectre (John Oswald)	5:45
4	Cat o'Nine Tails (Tex Avery Directs the Marquis de Sade) (John Zorn)	12:40
5	Quartet Euphometric (Henry Cowell)	1:50
6	Physical Property (Steven Mackey)	14:26
7	Soliloquy from How It Happens (The Voice of I. F. Stone) (Scott Johnson)	13:08
8	Quartet No. 2 (Sofia Gubaidulina)	8:24
9	Aba Kee Tayk Hamaree (It Is My Turn, Oh Lord) (Pandit Pran Nath)	10:56

News & Reviews

Friday, May 11, 2012

Kronos Quartet Announces Spring/Summer Tour; Features Concerts with Philip Glass, Cultural Olympiad, BBC Proms Debut

Kronos Quartet has announced its late-spring and summer tour schedule, adding a number of dates throughout Europe. The Quartet kicks things off this weekend with two concerts at home in San Francisco, then heads to Europe for the first of two trips, featuring performances of Dracula with Philip Glass. In July, Kronos returns to the UK for several events in the Cultural Olympiad and the group's debut at BBC Proms.
Thursday, April 26, 2012

Cal Performances 2012–13 Season to Include Kronos Quartet, Philip Glass, Fatoumata Diawara, Sérgio & Odair Assad, Mark Morris

Cal Performances at the University of California, Berkeley, has announced its 2012–13 season, which will feature Kronos Quartet as the season's Artists in Residence; Philip Glass's groundbreaking work with Robert Wilson, Einstein on the Beach; Fatoumata Diawara's debut; a Sérgio & Odair Assad concert with Paquito D'Rivera; and the return of the Mark Morris Dance Company with the holiday favorite Hard Nut. Subscription sales begin on Friday.

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About this Album

Kronos Quartet “plays with its characteristic intensity,” says Rolling Stone, on this adventurous, globe-spanning set, which gathers pieces from Lower East Siders Elliot Sharp and John Zorn, Russia's Sofia Gubaidulina, Pakistani singer Pandit Pran Nath, and Chicago bluesman Willie Dixon, among others.

Credits

MUSICIANS
Kronos Quartet:
David Harrington, violin
John Sherba, violin
Hank Dutt, viola
Joan Jeanrenaud, cello
with
Steven Mackey, guitar (6)
Pandit Pran Nath, voice (9)
Krishma Bhatt, tabla (9)
Terry Riley, John Constant, tamboura (9)

PRODUCTION CREDITS
Produced by Judith Sherman and Kronos Quartet
Tracks 1, 2, 5, 6-10 recorded at Skywalker Ranch, CA, August 1992
Engineer: Bob Edwards
Assistant Engineer: Craig Silvey
Track 3 produced by John Oswald
Recorded October 1990 at Different Fur
Engineer: Howard Johnston
Assistant Engineer: Clive Allen
Track 4 recorded July 1991 at Skywalker Ranch
Engineer: Bob Edwards
Assistant Engineer: Tony Eckert
Voice sample for I.F. Stone for 7 produced at Studio PASS, New York, by Scott Johnson and Alex Noyes

Art direction and design: Frank Olinsky
Cover by Leopoldo Maler

Executive Producer: Robert Hurwitz