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Kronos

[kroh-nos]

noun

  1. a variant of Cronus.



Kronos

/ ˈkrəʊnɒs /

noun

  1. a variant of Cronus

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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It had been at Mills that violinist David Harrington, leader of Kronos, doggedly convinced a reluctant Riley to write a string quartet.

Riley celebrated his 90th birthday in June with two Tokyo concerts by the Kronos Quartet, one being, at the composer’s request, the Japanese premiere of Riley’s most cosmic string quartet, “Sun Rings.”

Eyes hidden behind his signature aviators, Storch took up a spot behind a Korg Kronos synthesizer and played along with a handful of the slinky pop and R&B hits he helped create in the early 2000s — not least Justin Timberlake’s “Cry Me a River,” before which he very dramatically ripped a cig.

This is Kouyoumdjian’s first opera, but she has been writing string quartet music of theatrical power for the past decade and has been championed by the Kronos Quartet.

A new Kronos recording devoted to those works will be released in early March, and it features pieces with narration about war and peace in the Middle East that are grippingly theatrical.

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