Kronos Quartet, the United States’ best-known string quartet, famous for its crossover projects and advocacy of new music, has been celebrating its 50th-anniversary season with a Five Decades tour.

July 16, marked the 80th anniversary of the Trinity Test, the US military’s first detonation of a nuclear weapon in the deserts of New Mexico.

Kronos Quartet played at the National Concert Hall in Dublin on Sunday as part of its season-long Five Decades 50th anniversary tour. The farewell aspect of the tour is that its second violinist ...

Two new renditions of Dylan’s “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall” memorialize the 80th anniversary of the Trinity test ...

Ringo Starr, Willie Nelson, and Iggy Pop are among the many artists featured on new versions of the classic 1963 Bob Dylan protest song “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall.” ...

TICKETS are now on sale for what promises to be a very special performance by the world famous Kronos Quartet in An Táin Theatre at the Town Hall on July 13th.

Single-handedly reinventing the image of the classical chamber ensemble over the last four decades, The Kronos Quartet has been on a journey which has taken them from the international to the ...

THE Grammy Award-winning San Francisco-based Kronos Quartet will play the Cork Opera House on Sunday, May 11 as part of their 40th anniversary world tour. Tuesday, 22 April 2025.

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 ...

At 50, the Kronos Quartet Is Still Playing for the Future. The group, which celebrated its birthday on Friday at Carnegie Hall, changed music with its open-eared and open-minded approach.

Like the Kronos Quartet, Jeremy Sams's Baroque pastiche The Enchanted Island could only have been made in America. Premiered by New York's Metropolitan Opera on New Year's Eve, broadcast on Radio ...