On Tuesday, December 16th at 1pm, Velvet Einstein airs his recent interview with Ayane Kozasa and Gabriela Díaz of the Kronos Quartet. They discuss Kronos’s most recent release, Forgive Us For, the careful curation of Kronos’s programs, and the differences between Kronos and their other ensembles.
Kronos has long been at the forefront of revolutionizing the string quartet into a living art form that responds to the people and issues of our time.
Forgive Us For reaffirms the urgency of Kronos Quartet’s search for music that speaks unflinchingly to the human condition in all its light and darkness, hope and despair, truth and illusion. This search has led Kronos far from the string quartet’s roots in Mitteleuropa to places like Iceland, Palestine, and Ukraine—the homelands, respectively, of Hildur Guðnadóttir (b. 1982), Rim Banna (1966-2018), and Mariana Sadovska (b. 1972).
Photo: Danica Taylor
