Kronos Quartet, now celebrating its 40th anniversary, was the subject of a feature profile on NPR's Morning Edition today titled "Kronos Quartet: Still Daring After All These Years." "Since their founding, the San Francisco-based string quartet has become one of the most visible ensembles in classical music," says NPR's Anastasia Tsioulcas in the piece. "The players have done it by championing new and underheard music, and by coming up with a business model that was unheard of for a chamber group four decades ago." Hear the complete Morning Edition report at npr.org.

As a highlight of its 40th anniversary season, Kronos will perform in Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium in New York City this Friday, March 28. The concert features collaborations with many of the group's close colleagues and longtime artistic partners. On the program is the world premiere of Terry Riley’s The Serquent Risadome, as well as works by Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, Clint Mansell, and more. Special guests include Bryce Dessner, Wu Man, Jherek Bischoff, four young string quartets from Face The Music, and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus.

Terry Riley’s The Serquent Risadome is his 27th new score for Kronos, a collaboration that has spanned more than three decades. It takes its title from a “short futuristic tale” he wrote, using mostly made-up words, called The Autodaydreamographical Anteriopod. The Serquent Risadome was commissioned by Carnegie Hall.

Composer Bryce Dessner (of The National) will play guitar on Aheym, which he wrote for Kronos. Pipa virtuoso Wu Man, a frequent partner, will be heard in the New York premiere of Philip Glass’s Orion: China. Multi-hyphenate entertainer Jherek Bischoff joins in on electric bass for A Semiperfect Number, which he premiered with Kronos last July at Lincoln Center Out of Doors.

Kronos will partner with four young string quartets from Face the Music, forming a small string orchestra for Osvaldo Golijov’s arrangement of El Sinaloense (The Man from Sinaloa) by Severiano Briseño. (Kronos performs the track on its 2002 album Nuevo, one of five classic albums included in the forthcoming box set, Kronos Explorer Series, due April 8 from Nonesuch Records.) Face the Music is a program of the Kaufman Music Center, where Kronos Quartet is in residence this season. It is the only teen ensemble in the US dedicated to the creation and performance of music by living composers.

Aleksandra Vrebalov’s Bubbles is her ninth score for Kronos, and pairs the quartet with the Brooklyn Youth Chorus. The program is completed by Laurie Anderson’s Flow, from her 2010 Nonesuch album Homeland; film music by Clint Mansell from Requiem for a Dream and The Fountain; and arrangements of the traditional Scandinavian folk song Tusen Tankar and Syrian musician Omar Souleyman’s La Sidounak Sayyada, both of which can be heard on the forthcoming Kronos album A Thousand Thoughts, also due April 8, and early blues singer Geeshie Wiley’s 1930 song Last Kind Words. Additionally, a short documentary celebrating the group’s history will be screened for the first time, directed by Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Sam Green.

For additional details and tickets, visit carnegiehall.org.

Following the concert, New York's Q2 Music, the online new-music station from WQXR, will launch an encore presentation of KRONOS AT 40, the 24-hour marathon stream of Kronos music it first aired this past Monday that will air all day Saturday, March 29. Tune in at wxqr.org.