Review: For Kronos Quartet, a time of renewal on 40th birthday

Kronos Quartet, ever spinning in a thousand directions, brings special anniversary concerts to UCLA with the help of Chinese pipa player Wu Man, Wilco's Nels Cline and Laurie Anderson.Forty is old for a string quartet but not ancient. The Budapest String Quartet, founded in 1917, lasted 50 but with no original members after its first 15 years. The Juilliard String Quartet has been around since 1946, and its founding violinist, Robert Mann, hung in for a phenomenal 51 years. But both are quartets...

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