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PARIS HILTON


Artist: Kronos Quartet


Modern take on classics
CALGARY -- In a recent episode of The West Wing, President Bartlet, played by Martin Sheen, summed up how he felt about contemporary classical music with one succinct and very unpresidential proclamation: "Modern music sucks."

Though most people wouldn't necessarily put it that way, a great many have a tough time digesting modern music because they find it -- like modern jazz -- challenging and intimidating.
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Quartet loves to explore
Kronos Quartet boldly goes where no classical musicians have gone before.

While the rest of chamber music world is knee-deep in Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and Schubert, the San Francisco-based foursome's performance catalogue includes such luminaries as Alfred Schnittke, Philip Glass, Thelonius Monk and Jimi Hendrix.
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Winspear Centre, Edmonton - Feb 8, 1999



Sounds so international
New music fuels Kronos




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