The songs grab your attention with their mind-boggling combination of styles: Latin big band and European cabaret; syrupy Hollywood strings and feisty rock ‘n’ roll; wistful religious hymns and ...

Now over 70, the superdiva of Indian music, perhaps the most recorded artist in the world, has teamed up with the Grammy Award-winning Kronos Quartet to produce a valentine to the music of Bollywood, ...

Abandon notions of any necessarily deep rift between high art & kitsch, mass market & individual genius, melodrama & emotional depth! Asha Bhosle is the pre-eminent singer in Indian cinema. She’s ...

The Kronos Quartet has just completed an album of Bollywood film music, You've Stolen My Heart, featuring the vocals of Asha Bhosle. A superstar of Indian film, Bhosle is among the biggest-selling ...

Kronos Quartet performing at the Sacrum Profanum Festival in Krakow in September 2014 (courtesy Cinetic Media) There’s a healthy tradition of screening movies with musicians performing the score live.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... For what it’s worth, the Beatles stayed together for about a decade. The Kronos Quartet, a boundary-pushing string ensemble, has lasted more than five times ...

It almost happened just like that anyway. In the 1970s, as Riley was diving ever deeper into his study of North Indian classical music with the singer Pandit Pran Nath, a legacy based on "In C" and ...

Kronos Quartet is celebrating 40 years of playing music together — and to mark the occasion, they're playing a celebration concert at Carnegie Hall in New York tomorrow night. Since their founding, ...

Commemorative concerts and celebrations have been planned around the world for the famed composer Terry Riley’s 80th birthday. But the most special celebration of all may have been the one closest to ...

In addition to their performance of 20th century classics, modern music specialists The Kronos Quartet have a long history of commissioning new works from contemporary composers. But their ...

Here comes the sun — again. Alive to a radiant democratic spirit taking hold in Europe and alongside a new appreciation of the natural world, the 40-year-old Joseph Haydn composed six revolutionary ...