The Kronos Quartet

Ticket Info: 814-863-0255 Adult $36 University Park Student $15 18 and Younger $26
San Francisco's Kronos Quartet has spent more than three decades combining a spirit of exploration with a commitment to expanding the range and context of the string quartet. Kronos has performed thousands of concerts, released more than forty-five recordings of extraordinary breadth and creativity, and commissioned more than 600 works and arrangements from diverse artists. In the evening-length Awakening, violinists David Harrington and John Sherba, violist Hank Dutt, and cellist Jeffrey Zeigler perform a meditation on redemption originally inspired by the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Awakening, which takes its name from a work by Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky of Uzbekistan, includes music from a dozen countries. The program also features works by Argentineans Osvaldo Golijov and Gustavo Santaolalla, Americans Michael Gordon and Terry Riley, and Finlander Aulis Sallinen. Other music comes from composers in Turkey, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, India, and Sweden. The Nittany Valley Children's Choir performs with Kronos.
The presentation includes a post-performance discussion among the quartet and audience members.
Kronos Quartet is presented in partnership with Juniata College's Halbritter Center for the Performing Arts, where the ensemble performs a concert of mixed repertoire at 7:30 p.m. Monday, November 9. David Harrington, Kronos violinist and artistic director, hosts a listening party-focused on the music he's hearing on his MP3 player-at 7 p.m. Sunday, November 8, at a location to be announced.
sponsors
Gay D. Dunne, M.D., and James H. Dunne, M.D.
Location: Eisenhower Auditorium