![]() “Every cellist that travels has to have a ticket for their cello, and depending on where you’re going there’s all kinds of extra stuff involved with being the cellist … I don’t know if that has something to do with it.”Ī week after the Richmond performance and recording, Kronos heads to legendary Carnegie Hall in New York City for a concert that includes the work of Javanese singer, Peni Candra Rini, who Style recently profiled because she is a visiting Fulbright scholar this spring at UR and Virginia Commonwealth University.Īsked why Kronos was recording “At War with Ourselves” in Richmond for a potential album (details are unconfirmed at press time), Harrington explains that this performance has been a long time coming for many reasons. We have not had a bad moment ever in the past 10 years,” Harrington says.Īlthough he doesn’t have an answer as to why it’s always been the cellist position, like the drummer in Spinal Tap, that keeps changing in Kronos over the chamber group’s long history. John, Hank and I feel that Sunny has brought Kronos so much poetry and happiness and really great rehearsals. “As musicians, we’ve had the best time in the last ten years that you can imagine. The group’s handful of January concerts will also mark the final performances of Kronos cellist Sunny Yang, who has been with the group for a decade, and who is being replaced by cellist and composer Paul Wiancko in February. Like, 'I think we can do this.' That’s what I get from it.” We are responding to each other in a really thorough way … But you feel good after this. “We might be playing the same pitches from one night to the next but the essence of the experience can be totally different. “Also having Nikky right there in the center between the members of Kronos is such a powerful experience to hear her words and the intonation of them and the way she varies that depending on the way we play,” he explains. Harrington says that "At War With Ourselves" has been performed around 10 times so far, having premiered in Texas – but each 80-minute performance takes on a different feel, partly due to its community participants.
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