Alarm Will Sound. Bang on a Can All Stars. Eighth Blackbird.
The Kronos Quartet blazed the trail for these well-known ensembles and dozens more like them, helping to invent the whole notion of a contemporary classical ensemble and demonstrating how such a group could be wildly successful.
This daring foursome, which was seen as too edgy and out there for many traditional chamber-music and performing arts series when it began performing in 1973, has since become an esteemed fixture of the international classical-music scene. Читать дальше...