The Kronos Quartet: the sky's the limit

From India to Iraq, Sesame Street to outer space, the Kronos Quartet make music everywhere. They talk to Tom ServiceThey are the only musicians to have both gone into space and appeared on Sesame Street. All right, the Kronos Quartet didn't actually board a shuttle, but they collaborated with Terry Riley on Sun Rings – a work for string quartet, chorus and "pre-recorded spacescapes", and they appeared with Big Bird on Sesame Street, complete with lycra trousers and Day-Glo tops, in 1987. "I'l...

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