page_title: Kronos Quartet
section_title: New music, contemporary classical
hierarchical_section_title: Kronos Quartet / New music, contemporary classical
caption_attribution_description: English: Laurie Anderson amidst the Kronos Quartet in Chicago after performing LANDFALL w:oratorio at the Harris Theater for the Arts located underneath the downtown/off-lakefront w:Millennium Park. Original description on Flickr: At the Harris Theater for the Arts, a 1500-soul posh music venue/kiva complete with lots of fancy climbing. The space is hidden underneath Chicago's Millennium Park, downtown, right off the lakefront on Randolph Street.
context_page_description: The Kronos Quartet is an American string quartet based in San Francisco. They have been in existence with a rotating membership of musicians for over forty years. The quartet covers a very broad range of musical genres, including contemporary classical music. More than 900 works have been written for them.
context_section_description: Over 900 pieces have been created for the Kronos Quartet, which has a long history of commissioning new works. They have worked with many minimalist composers including John Adams, Arvo Pärt, George Crumb, Henryk Górecki, Steve Reich, Roberto Paci Dalò, Philip Glass, Terry Riley, and Kevin Volans; collaborators hail from a diversity of countries – Kaija Saariaho from Finland, Pēteris Vasks from Latvia, Franghiz Ali-Zadeh from Azerbaijan, Homayun Sakhi from Afghanistan, Victoria Vita Polevá from Ukraine and Fernando Otero, Astor Piazzolla, and Osvaldo Golijov from Argentina. Some of Kronos' string-quartet arrangements were published in 2007.
caption: On stage with Laurie Anderson, after performing LANDFALL at the Harris Theater on March 17, 2015
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