World Music Review – NY Times
11/04/06 09:05 Filed in: Press
Kronos Quartet and Asha Bhosle Make Not-So-Strange Bedfellows By ALLAN KOZINN (Quoted here in Part)
"For the final concert of the Live Mix series, on Saturday evening, the Kronos Quartet moved upstairs to Carnegie Hall's main stage from the comparatively intimate confines of Zankel Hall. It had good reason to make the jump, with the singer Asha Bhosle as the soloist in the second half of the program. The concert drew a huge audience, with the quartet's usual following dwarfed by Indian-music fans who were well versed in Ms. Bhosle's repertory and responded to it as rapturously as a Western pop audience responds to a band playing its biggest hits...
The three-hour concert began with a few non-Indian works, including arrangements of short pieces by the Icelandic rock band Sigur Ros and an Ethiopian composer, Getatchew Mekurya, as well as "Cercle du Nord III," an inventive, rich-textured score for quartet and electronic sound by the Canadian composer Derek Charke."
"For the final concert of the Live Mix series, on Saturday evening, the Kronos Quartet moved upstairs to Carnegie Hall's main stage from the comparatively intimate confines of Zankel Hall. It had good reason to make the jump, with the singer Asha Bhosle as the soloist in the second half of the program. The concert drew a huge audience, with the quartet's usual following dwarfed by Indian-music fans who were well versed in Ms. Bhosle's repertory and responded to it as rapturously as a Western pop audience responds to a band playing its biggest hits...
The three-hour concert began with a few non-Indian works, including arrangements of short pieces by the Icelandic rock band Sigur Ros and an Ethiopian composer, Getatchew Mekurya, as well as "Cercle du Nord III," an inventive, rich-textured score for quartet and electronic sound by the Canadian composer Derek Charke."
