Track Listing
Click tracks with speaker icon to listen| 1 | White Man Sleeps #1 (Kevin Volans) | 4:31 |
| 2 | Scherzo: Holding Your Own (Charles Ives) | 1:23 |
| 3 | Pano Da Costa (Cloth from the Coast) (Jon Hassell) | 19:21 |
| 4 | Morango…Almost a Tango (Thomas Oboe Lee) | 6:22 |
| 5 | Lonely Woman (Ornette Coleman, arr. Mel Graves) | 3:08 |
| 6 | Amazing Grace (Ben Johnston) | 11:48 |
| 7 | White Man Sleeps #5 (Kevin Volans) | 3:38 |
| 8 | String Quartet No. 3 (Béla Bartók) | 15:30 |
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.
About this Album
Brilliantly eclectic collection features South African composer Kevin Volans’s title piece. Ben Johnston’s “Amazing Grace,” says the New York Times, “is a canny blend of modernist skill and folkish Americana worth the price of the record all by itself.”
Credits
MUSICIANS
Kronos Quartet:
David Harrington, violin
John Sherba, violin
Hank Dutt, viola
Joan Jeanrenaud, cello
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Produced by Judith Sherman
Recorded January 1987 at Wellesley College Chapel, Wellesley, MA
Engineer: John Newton
Mastering: Robert C. Ludwig
Art direction and design: Carin Goldberg
Cover photograph by Nicholas Nixon
Executive Producer: Robert Hurwitz
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