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Kronos Fifty for the Future (Complete Repertoire)

Haingeraide

Sadness (Carlos Cipa Rework)

Performed by Neil R. Coulter, recorded in Ukarumpa, Papua New Guinea, on September 13, 2013.

Philip Glass wrote Gradus in 1968, upon returning to New York after studying with Nadia Boulanger and Ravi Shankar. A “gradus” is a kind of method book or exercise book to help learn an instrument; it means “steps.” Glass's composition, dedicated to his frequent saxophonist-collaborator Jon Gibson, is an early example of what would become his trademark minimalist style. Minimalism sets a number of variables as constants in order to highlight changes within a smaller set of variables. In Gradus many elements that usually change throughout a piece of music are kept static through the whole piece. The first movement comprises 65 lines, with each line subdivided into 32 beats (each beat being an eighth note or eighth rest). All of the notes played by the saxophonist are eighth notes, and all rests are eighth rests. The tempo is quarter note = 132, and it remains constant from the beginning to the end. The beginning of the piece is marked with the dynamic mezzo-forte, and that does not change as the piece progresses. All of these elements are kept the same throughout the piece in order to draw attention to the main thing that changes: the set of pitches available for the melody. The piece begins with an ascending melody of five pitches. Those five pitches are manipulated into different patterns, and gradually new pitches are introduced into the mix, one at a time. Because this is the only significant change, each new pitch sticks out much more obviously than in a piece in which all the variables are constantly changing. Though the pitches are put through many different arrangements, there is always a pull toward the ascending melody from the beginning, and by the end of the piece the ascending melody contains nine pitches.

Philip Glass - Gradus (Part 1), for soprano saxophone (1968)

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Naël Tripoli à la boha, clarinoise et flûte nasale
Anaïs Perrinel au violon
Gabriel Chiapello à l'accordéon diatonique
Lucie Laigle à la vielle à roue

Composition de Gabriel Chiapello

Branle de Noirmoutier - Le petit Bouraf

Shu No Inori

You can learn to play this piece. FREE scores and parts, among other materials, are available online: kronosquartet.org/fifty-for-the-future

Composed by Franghiz Ali-Zadeh 
© 2016 Kronos Arts Publishing
℗ 2016 Kronos Performing Arts Association
Commissioned for Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire

Produced by Kronos Quartet
Recorded March 2016 at Studio Trilogy, San Francisco, CA
Engineered and mixed by Laura Dean
Assistant Engineer: Noah Killeen
Production Assistant: Minna Choi
Mixed at Women's Audio Mission, San Francisco, CA
Assistant Mixing Engineers: Victoria Fajardo, Ashley Green, Aimee Hamel, Becca High, Masha Persay, Maryam Qudus

Rəqs (Dance)

Franghiz Ali-Zadeh - Rəqs (Dance)

You can learn to play this piece. FREE scores and parts, among other materials, are available online: kronosquartet.org/fifty-for-the-future

Composed by Raven Chacon
© 2016 Kronos Arts Publishing
℗ 2016 Kronos Performing Arts Association
Commissioned for Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire

Produced by Kronos Quartet
Recorded October 2016 at Studio Trilogy, San Francisco, CA 
Engineered and mixed by Laura Dean
Assistant Engineer: Alex Spencer
Production Assistant: Reshena Liao
Mixed at Women’s Audio Mission, San Francisco, CA
Assistant Mixing Engineers: Pamela Arriera, Madalyn Merkey, EA Allen

The Journey of the Horizontal People

Raven Chacon - The Journey of the Horizontal People

La Jupette Barbue c'est un tendre et joyeux bal à la voix. 
Un trio vocal à l'accent parfois tribal mais jamais trivial.
C'est un gars qui rencontra deux filles.
Ou deux femmes qui rencontrèrent un homme.
Des chants poilus qui se dansent et qui se chantent.

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Les Métamorphoses - Bourrée 2tps

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Composed by Laurie Anderson
© 2017 Inner Sunset Publishing
℗ 2017 Kronos Performing Arts Association
Commissioned for Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire

Produced by Kronos Quartet
Recorded July 2017 at 25th Street Recording, Oakland, CA
Engineered and mixed by Alex Spencer
Assistant engineer: Peter Labberton
Production Assistant: Reshena Liao
Edited at Lazy Dog Sound Studios, Long Beach, CA
Mixed by Alex Spencer and David Harrington at Decibelle Recording, San Francisco, CA

III. Airy

Laurie Anderson - Shutter Island: III. Airy

II. Crystal

Laurie Anderson - Shutter Island: II. Crystal

I. Shutter Island

Laurie Anderson - Shutter Island: I. Shutter Island

06 - The Broken Doll - Sandpipers

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Composed by Mark Applebaum
© 2018 Inner Sunset Publishing
℗ 2019 Kronos Performing Arts Association
Commissioned for Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire

Produced by Kronos Quartet and Reshena Liao
Recorded August 2019 at 25th Street Recording, Oakland, CA
Engineered by Zach Miley
Assistant engineer: Gabriel Shepard
Mixed by Zach Miley and David Harrington at Decibelle Recording, San Francisco, CA

Mark Applebaum - Flashlight

Kronos Quartet is David Harrington (violin), John Sherba (violin), Hank Dutt (viola), and Sunny Yang (cello).

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Here you will find our recordings of new work commissioned for Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire. Released over five years beginning in 2016, this collection of 50 compositions by 25 men and 25 women from around the world will be devoted to the contemporary approaches to the string quartet and designed expressly for the training of students and emerging professionals. Scores and parts, audio recordings, composer interviews, and many more resources are available for free on our website.

Founded over forty years ago, we are a San Francisco-based 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. For more recordings, please visit http://www.nonesuch.com/artists/kronos-quartet or http://kronosquartet.org/recordings Thank you!

Laurie Anderson - Shutter Island: II. Crystal

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