Event Concerts and Performances Live! at the Library: Kronos Quartet
Date and Location
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When: Thursday, April 18, 2024
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm EDT
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Where: Thomas Jefferson Building - Coolidge Auditorium (LJG45A)
10 1st Street SE, Washington, DC 20540
Part of Concerts from the Library of Congress ; Live at the Library
Request ADA accommodations five business days in advance at (202) 707-6362 or ADA@loc.gov.
Musicians
David Harrington & John Sherba, violin
Hank Dutt, viola
Paul Wiancko, cello
Celebrating 50 years of extraordinary performances, the Kronos Quartet will offer a dizzying array of pieces originally written for them. With over 70 recordings to its credit and thousands of performances under its belt, the Kronos Quartet is an elite ensemble that is also one of the most open-minded, as evidenced by the wide range of music they play. The ensemble has received many awards for its work of the past half century, including multiple Grammies and the Avery Fisher, Edison Klassiek Oeuvre and Polar Music prizes. As advocates for new music, they have commissioned over 1,000 pieces from composers of every background—with no end in sight.
There will be no preconcert event.
Post-concert Nightcap Conversation with the Artists: Onstage, Coolidge Auditorium.
Schedule
Program
TRADITIONAL/JACOB GARCHIK
The House of the Rising Sun (inspired by The Everly Brothers)
GEESHIE WILEY/GARCHIK
Last Kind Words
JLIN/GARCHIK
Little Black Book
SCOTT JOHNSON
How It Happens
Movies
What Would Have Happened
SUN RA, TERRY RILEY & SARA MIYAMOTO/PAUL WIANCKO
Kiss Yo Ass Goodbye
STEVE REICH
WTC 9/11
CHARLTON SINGLETON
Testimony
MICHAEL GORDON
Campaign Songs: 1 (God Bless America)
KEN BENSHOOF
John Brown’s Body
ABEL MEEROPOL/GARCHIK
Strange Fruit (inspired by Billie Holiday)
LAURIE ANDERSON/GARCHIK
Flow
ZACHARY JAMES WATKINS
Peace Be Till (featuring the recorded voice of Dr. Clarence B. Jones)