Kronos Quarter and Double Edge : changing chamber music / produced by John Diliberto and Kimberly Haas.

Episode Title:
Kronos Quartet and Double Edge : changing chamber music / produced by John Diliberto and Kimberly Haas.
PRA Archive #: 
SZ0490.07
Description: 

Weekly radio documentary which explores the merging of music and technology. The Kronos Quartet is reshaping classical music with their individualistic presentations and adventurous commissions. David Harrington, first violin, and Joan Jeanrenaud, cellist, discuss their work along with composers Terry Riley, Jon Hassell, Philip Glass and others. Double Edge, a piano duo of Murit Tilles and Edmund Niemann, also take a modern angle to classical music. They discuss new standards of minimalist viruosity, along with composers David Borden and Steve Reich.|KRONOS QUARTET AND DOUBLE EDGE : CHANGING CHAMBER MUSIC / produced by Diliberto and Kimberly Haas. SERIES: Totally wired IV| no. 7 Weekly radio documentary which explores the merging of music and technology. The Kronos Quartet is reshaping classical music with their individualistic presentations and adventurous commissions. David Harringotn, first violin, and Joan Jeanrenaud, cellist, discuss their work along with composers Terry Riley, Jon Hassell, Philip Glass, and others. Double Edge, a piano duo of Nurit Tilles and Edmund Niemann, also take a modern angle to classical music. They discuss new standards of minimalist virtuosity, along with composers David Borden and Steve Reich. Funded by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. BROADCAST: Fall, 1989.

Date Broadcast on: 
Fall, 1989.
Item duration: 
1 reel (29 min.) : 7 1/2 ips., stereo.|29:00
Distributor: 
Los Angeles : Pacifica Radio Archive, 1989.
Rights Summary: 
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