KRONOS QUARTET
A World Premiere
MAVERICKS/MONK: KRONOS ON INNOVATORS
Saturday, 9/15/07, 8 pm
Reynolds Industries Theater
$42 • $36 • $5*
In 1985 the most ambitious string quartet in American history dropped Monk Suite, a stunning set of Monk compositions that re-outfitted the Rocky Mount legend for strings. In 2007 David Harrington’s quartet returns, arriving in Durham with another Monk-inspired challenge to the status quo.
Devised especially for the festival, the Kronos Quartet’s Mavericks / Monk features sixteen newly written or arranged compositions, each created by a groundbreaking musical mind whose work reaches beyond genre. Featuring pieces by jazz greats Charles Mingus and Sun Ra alongside work by John Zorn and Terry Riley, the program also includes the voices of Allen Ginsberg and dissident journalist I.F. Stone. Three new arrangements of Monk’s famous “‘Round Midnight,” commissioned especially for Duke Performances, make their world premieres.
An homage to musical thinkers on the vanguard, Mavericks / Monk promises to prove what Monk’s work has long shown— that forward-leaning experiments work best when
they turn back to acknowledge their roots.”
A Talk with David Harrington:
Thursday, 9/13/07, 7pm
Nasher Museum of Art's Auditorium
As part of a four-day residency on campus, Harrington will give a talk, “Listening with David,” during which he’ll play tunes he loves and narrate a journey through his iPod. (Free to the public. Tickets are available through Duke Performances' Box Office.)
Set List : "What's David Listening To?" 9/13/07 set list (DOC)
Kronos Quartet on the web:
www.kronosquartet.org
www.myspace.com/kronosquartet
New arrangements of “‘Round Midnight” by Jacob Garchik, Randall Woolf, and Jason Yarde commissioned for the Kronos Quartet by Duke Performances and the Center for Documentary Studies.