In a new multidisciplinary work, the cellist Jeffrey Zeigler explores his family’s Gullah Geechee roots in South Carolina with a host of collaborators. By Anastasia Tsioulcas A master of the kora who ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... For what it’s worth, the Beatles stayed together for about a decade. The Kronos Quartet, a boundary-pushing string ensemble, has lasted more than five times ...

Kronos Quartet are marking the 80th anniversary of the first nuclear detonation by covering Bob Dylan‘s “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” with the Hard Rain Collective. Proceeds benefit the Red Hot ...

Today (July 16) marks the 80th anniversary of the Trinity test, during which a team of U.S. scientists led by J. Robert Oppenheimer detonated the world’s first atomic bomb in the deserts of New Mexico ...

Founded over a half century ago, the Kronos Quartet may look like a classical quartet but time and time again they trick us with their chameleon-like output. They color outside the lines of ...

So much music. So much time. Since the Kronos Quartet’s founding in 1973, critical response to their work has focused on the many aspects of time suggested by their name. Indeed, the recent 50th ...

Yesterday, 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. To observe the event and its devastating ...

A master of the kora who worked with Herbie Hancock and Philip Glass, his career was powered as much by experimentation as by reverence for tradition. By Giovanni Russonello The venerable quartet ...

Besides more or less reinventing the string quartet and its place in the music world over its 25 years-plus career, the Kronos Quartet has also done its share of opening public ears to the world’s ...