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Kronos Quartet: Glorious Mahalia

by Scott Gudell
May 16, 2026

Founded over a half century ago, the Kronos Quartet may look like a classical quartet but time and time again they trick us with their chameleon-like output. They color outside the lines of potentially confining mid-20th century contemporary classical music as they progressively toy with a myriad of genres including jazz, minimalism, beat poetry, rock ala Jimi Hendrix, Dracula and, well, just about anything else. Early Kronos albums found the quartet interpreting the music of jazz giants such as Thelonious ...