{"id":32908,"date":"2016-06-13T18:08:52","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T22:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/?p=32908"},"modified":"2016-06-13T18:10:38","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T22:10:38","slug":"kronos-quartet-50-for-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/?p=32908","title":{"rendered":"Kronos Quartet: 50 for the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To celebrate its 125-year anniversary, Carnegie Hall is commissioning 125 new works. The Kronos Quartet is an important piece of the project, providing 50 of the commissions as part of the quartet&#8217;s 50 for the Future project. 50 pieces (25 by women composers) written by composers throughout the world will be premiered by Kronos and the music provided for free through its website.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/notedendeavors.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-21682\" alt=\"Noted Endeavors\" src=\"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Noted_Endeavors_Logo_Small_Musical_America.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"142\" \/><\/a>In this video, Kronos founder and 1st violinist David Harrington, along with Kronos Managing Director Janet\u00a0Cowperthwaite, talk to Noted Endeavors founders Eugenia Zukerman and Emily Ondracek-Peterson about the Fifty for the Future project, detailing the process from inception to realization.<\/p>\n<p>David Harrington founded the Kronos Quartet in 1973. The quartet has since gone on to become one of history&#8217;s most important new music ensembles, having commissioned over 850 works.<\/p>\n<p>For more about the Kronos Quartet, go to:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/kronosquartet.org\" target=\"_blank\">kronosquartet.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fifty for the Future:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/kronosquartet.org\/fifty-for-the-future\" target=\"_blank\">kronosquartet.org\/fifty-for-the-future<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More Noted Endeavors videos:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/notedendeavors.com\">notedendeavors.com<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"448\" height=\"252\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dSCSxD6DOXM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:34px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/?p=32908\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To celebrate its 125-year anniversary, Carnegie Hall is commissioning 125 new works. The Kronos Quartet is an important piece of the project, providing 50 of the commissions as part of the quartet&#8217;s 50 for the Future project. 50 pieces (25 by women composers) written by composers throughout the world will be premiered by Kronos and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3273],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32908"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32908"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32913,"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32908\/revisions\/32913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}