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Concert is part of the the Williams Center’s Sound Alternatives series
The Grammy-winning Kronos Quartet will perform at 8 p.m. Nov. 19 in the Williams Center for the Arts as part of the Sound Alternatives performance series.
Tickets are free for Lafayette students, $6 for students at LVAIC schools, $4 for faculty and staff, and $25 for the public. They can be obtained by calling the Williams Center box office at (610) 330-5009. The remaining Sound Alternative performance will be An Irish Homecoming featuring Cherish the Ladies and Maura O’Connell, April 7, $20.
For over three decades, the Kronos Quartet has fearlessly pushed the horizons of music, blurring boundaries between the Western canon, gifted musicians from different corners of the world, and iconic figures in pop, jazz, and dance. With collaborations extending from Philip Glass, Steve Reich, and Terry Riley to Dawn Upshaw, Allen Ginsberg, Zakir Hussein, and DJ Spooky, they have blazed a uniquely imaginative trail through contemporary music.
Their Williams Center concert will feature one of their signature pieces: George Crumb’s astonishing anti-war composition, Black Angels, in a newly conceived “staging” intended to dramatize the true theatrical power of Crumb’s richly-textured music. The group won the Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance in 2004 and was nominated for six other Grammy Awards.
WDIY 88.1 FM, Lehigh Valley Community Public Radio, is the College’s media partner for this concert.
This performance is supported by an ArtsCONNECT grant from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation. ArtsCONNECT is made possible through major funding from the National Endowment for the Arts’ Regional Performing Arts Touring Program with support from Capezio/Ballet Makers Dance Foundation and Dominion Foundation. It is also supported by a grant from the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts, with lead funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. American Masterpieces: Dance is the dance component of a major initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts, to acquaint Americans with the best of their cultural and artistic legacy.
The 2008–2009 Performance Series at Lafayette College is supported in part by gifts from Friends of the Williams Center for the Arts; by provisions of the Josephine Chidsey Williams Endowment, the J. Mahlon and Grace Buck Fund, the Croasdale Fund, the Class of ’73 Fund, the Alan and Wendy Pesky Artist-in-Residence Program, the James Bradley Fund, and the Ed Brunswick Jazz Fund; and by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, the Dexter and Dorothy Baker Foundation, and New England Foundation for the Arts. Special thanks to the F.M. Kirby Foundation for extraordinary support of the 25th anniversary season, and to Joan Moran and the Amaranth Foundation for support of the Ravi Shankar commission.