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Winter Was Hard
''Winter Was Hard'' is a studio album by the Kronos Quartet. It contains compositions by Aulis Sallinen, Terry Riley, Arvo Pärt, Anton Webern, John Zorn, John Lurie, Ástor Piazzolla, Alfred Schnittke, and Samuel Barber. Track listing Critical reception The album was listed at #11 in the ''Los Angeles Times'' Classical Top 25 of 1989. Brian Olewnick, in the ''All Music Guide to Jazz'', calls it a "fairly typical early mélange type recording by Kronos, mixing in ''au courant'' contemporary fare with a downtown edge and 20th century classics." Credits Musicians *David Harrington – violin *John Sherba – violin *Hank Dutt – viola *Joan Jeanrenaud – cello *San Francisco Girls Chorus, Elizabeth Appling, director ("Winter Was Hard Op. 20") *Earl L. Miller – reed organ ("Winter Was Hard Op. 20") *Christian Marclay – turntables ("Forbidden Fruit") * Ohta Hiromi – voice ("Forbidden Fruit") Production *Tracks 1–4, 6–10 recorded November 1987 at Methuen Memorial Music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kronos Quartet
The Kronos Quartet is an American string quartet based in San Francisco. It has been in existence with a rotating membership of musicians for almost 50 years. The quartet covers a very broad range of musical genres, including contemporary classical music. More than 900 works have been commission (art), written for it. History The quartet was founded by violinist David Harrington in Seattle, Washington (state), Washington. Its first performance was in November 1973. Since 1978, the quartet has been based in San Francisco, California. The longest-running combination of performers (from 1978 to 1999) had Harrington and John Sherba on violin, Hank Dutt on viola, and Joan Jeanrenaud on cello. In 1999, Jeanrenaud left Kronos because she was "eager for something new"; she was replaced by Jennifer Culp, who, in turn, left in 2005 and was replaced by Jeffrey Zeigler. In June 2013, Zeigler was replaced by Sunny Yang. With over 40 studio albums to their credit and having performed worldwide, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violin
The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular use. The violin typically has four strings (music), strings (some can have five-string violin, five), usually tuned in perfect fifths with notes G3, D4, A4, E5, and is most commonly played by drawing a bow (music), bow across its strings. It can also be played by plucking the strings with the fingers (pizzicato) and, in specialized cases, by striking the strings with the wooden side of the bow (col legno). Violins are important instruments in a wide variety of musical genres. They are most prominent in the Western classical music, Western classical tradition, both in ensembles (from chamber music to orchestras) and as solo instruments. Violins are also important in many varieties of folk music, including country music, bluegrass music, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kronos Quartet Albums
Kronos can refer to: *Cronus, a Titan, the father of Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Hestia, Demeter, and Hera Arts and entertainment Film and television * ''Kronos ''(film), a 1957 science fiction film *''Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter'', a 1974 horror film *Kronos (Highlander), a fictional character *In the ''Doctor Who'' serial, ''The Time Monster'', a creature from outside time that feeds on time itself *In the ''Star Trek'' universe, another spelling of Qo'noS, the Klingon home world *In '' Singularity'', an artificial intelligence designed to rid the earth of the plague of humanity in order to save the planet. *Operation Kronos, a fictional project in the 2004 Disney/Pixar superhero animated film ''The Incredibles'' Video games *In '' Age of Mythology: The Titans'', a character with the ability to time-shift buildings *In Eve Online, a Marauder Class battleship based on a Gallente Federation Megathron hull *Kronos II, an Orbital Mining Facility on the rings of Saturn in 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1988 Albums
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List Of 1988 Albums
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1988. Specific locations *1988 in British music * 1988 in Norwegian music Specific genres * 1988 in country music * 1988 in heavy metal music * 1988 in hip hop music *1988 in jazz Events January–March *January 3 – The Cinemax television special ''Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night'', recorded on September 30, 1987, at the Coconut Grove in Los Angeles, USA, is broadcast. *January 20 – The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony inducts The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Drifters, Bob Dylan and The Supremes. *January 28 – A Tampa, Florida, man files an unusual lawsuit against Mötley Crüe. Matthew John Trippe, who has a history of mental health issues and trouble with the law, claims that he was secretly hired to pose as Nikki Sixx and toured, wrote and recorded with the band for a time during 1983 and 1984. Trippe drops the lawsuit in 1993. *February 8 – Kenney Jones would last perform a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
