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A Live Documentary by Sam Green and Kronos Quartet Wexner Center for the Arts School Programs Resources A Thousand Thoughts: a Live Documentary by Sam Green and Kronos Quartet “I've always wanted the string quartet to be vital, and energetic, and alive, and cool, and not afraid to kick ass and be absolutely beautiful and ugly if it has to be. But it has to be expressive of life. To tell the story with grace and humor and depth. And to tell the whole story, if possible." –David Harrington, Kronos Quartet ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE: After 45 years since their inception the ever-forward thinking Kronos Quartet embrace a moment of reflection with this special Wexner Center commissioned collaboration with filmmaker Sam Green, for which they have won an Artist Residency Award at the Wexner. A live cinema documentary about Kronos’ past, present, and future, A Thousand Thoughts--conceptualized and directed by Green--will take on an expansive exploration of form as it tells the story of Kronos’ history through live narration, archival footage, interviews with Kronos collaborators such as Philip Glass, Terry Riley, Tanya Tagaq, and Wu Man among others, and live music performed by Kronos. Sam Green’s insightful narration will highlight telling moments from Kronos’ early days in San Francisco as upstarts in the world of classical music seeking new ways to perform chamber music with a hip edge while championing music from Jimi Hendrix and Astor Piazzolla to their place today as widely acclaimed artists and trailblazers of the vibrant indie chamber scene. The meta quality of this work—a live documentary about Kronos as Kronos performs the soundtrack—allows audiences to reflect on the nature of liveness, presence, and the collective experience of art, while also deepening their understanding of Kronos’ music, story, and legacy. At its heart, the A Thousand Thoughts asks questions about the power of art, music, and beauty to change the world. As Kronos leader David Harrington says, “I've always wanted the string quartet to be vital, and energetic, and alive, and cool, and not afraid to kick ass and be absolutely beautiful and ugly if it has to be. But it has to be expressive of life. To tell the story with grace and humor and depth. And to tell the whole story, if possible." Be among the very first to witness these tales unfold and celebrate all they’ve achieved with Kronos as they debut their retrospective program crafted with Sam Green for their many Wexner Center fans. Cosponsored by the Wexner Center’s Departments of Performing Arts and Film/Video. For more on their Artist Residency award: http://wexarts.org/press/artist-residency-awards- 2016-17 Link to a 3 min, 17 sec. video on A Thousand Thoughts: https://ksr-video.imgix.net/projects/2913879/video-783790-h264_high.mp4 Pages 2017 2 ABOUT KRONOS QUARTET: WHO: The Kronos Quartet’s current members are David Harrington (violin), John Sherba (violin), Hank Dutt (viola), and Sunny Yang (cello). After more than 40 years and over 50 recordings of extraordinary breadth, the Quartet keeps going boldly with a commitment to fearless exploration and to re-imagining the string quartet experience. BIO: In 1973, David Harrington was inspired to form Kronos after hearing George Crumb's Black Angels, a highly unorthodox, Vietnam War–inspired work featuring bowed water glasses, spoken word passages, and electronic effects. STYLE: Kronos have built a diverse repertoire for string quartet, performing and recording works by 20th-century masters (Bartók, Webern, Schnittke), contemporary composers (Sofia Gubaidulina, Bryce Dessner, Aleksandra Vrebalov), jazz legends (Ornette Coleman, Maria Schneider, Thelonious Monk), rock artists (guitar legend Jimi Hendrix, Brazilian electronica artist Amon Tobin, and Icelandic indie-rock group Sigur Rós), and artists who truly defy genre (performance artist Laurie Anderson, composer/sound sculptor/inventor Trimpin, and singer-songwriter/poet Patti Smith). AWARDS: Some of their awards include: the Polar Music Prize and the Avery Fisher Prize, two of the most prestigious awards given to musicians (both in 2011), and 2 Grammys, for Best Chamber Music Performance (2004) and “Musicians of the Year” (2003) from Musical America. COLLABORATIONS: They have been commissioned for pieces as well as have They have collaborated with many of the world's most intriguing and accomplished composers and performers, and commissioning more than 850 works and arrangements for string quartet. One of the quartet’s most frequent composer-collaborators is “Father of Minimalism” Terry Riley, whose work with Kronos includes Salome Dances for Peace (1985–86); Sun Rings (2002), a multimedia, NASA-commissioned ode to the earth and its people, featuring celestial sounds and images from space. In addition to composers, Kronos counts numerous performers from around the world among its collaborators, including the Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man; Azeri master vocalist Alim Qasimov; legendary Bollywood “playback singer” Asha Bhosle, featured on Kronos’ 2005 Grammy-nominated CD You’ve Stolen My Heart: Songs from R.D. Burman’s Bollywood; Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq; indie rock band The National; Mexican rockers Café Tacvba; sound artist and instrument builder Walter Kitundu; and the Romanian gypsy band Taraf de Haïdouks. FILM WORK: Kronos’ work has also featured prominently in a number of films, including two recent Academy Award–nominated documentaries: the AIDS-themed How to Survive a Plague (2012) and Dirty Wars (2013), an exposé of covert warfare for which Kronos’ David Harrington served as Music Supervisor. Kronos also performed scores by Philip Glass for the Pages 2017 3 films Mishima and Dracula (a 1999 restored edition of the 1931 Tod Browning–Bela Lugosi classic) and by Clint Mansell for the Darren Aronofsky films Noah (2014), The Fountain (2006), and Requiem for a Dream (2000). Additional films featuring Kronos’ music include The Great Beauty (2013), Heat (1995), and True Stories (1986). PAYING IT FORWARD: The quartet is committed to mentoring emerging performers and composers and has led workshops, master classes, and other education programs via the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, the California State Summer School for the Arts, Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute, and other institutions in the U.S. and overseas. In 2015 KPAA launched a new commissioning and education initiative – Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire. With Carnegie Hall as a lead partner, KPAA is commissioning 50 new works – 10 per year for five years – devoted to contemporary approaches to the quartet and designed expressly for the training of students and emerging professionals. The works will be created by an eclectic group of composers – 25 women and 25 men. The quartet will premiere each piece and create companion materials, including scores and parts, recordings, videos, performance notes, and composer interviews, that will be distributed online for free: http://kronosquartet.org/fifty-for-the-future/composers. On June 14, 2017, Kronos announced that they received an Art Works’ Media Arts grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support these ongoing efforts to provide open access to contemporary string quartet scores and parts. From http://www.kronosquartet.org/about Pages 2017 4 ABOUT THE FILMMAKER, SAM GREEN: WHO: Sam Green is a documentary filmmaker. He’s made many movies including most recently The Measure of All Things and The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller, a live cinematic collaboration with the indie rock band Yo La Tengo. His documentary The Weather Underground was nominated for an Academy Award and included in the 2004 Whitney Biennial. EDUCATION: Sam Green received his Master’s Degree in Journalism from University of California Berkeley, where he studied documentary with acclaimed filmmaker Marlon Riggs. MOST RECOGNIZED WORK: Green’s 2004 feature-length film, the Academy Award-nominated documentary The Weather Underground, tells the story of a group of radical young women and men who tried to violently overthrow the United States government during the late 1960s and 70s. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, was broadcast on PBS, included in the Whitney Biennial, and has screened widely around the world. RECENT WORK = “LIVE DOCUMENTARIES”: His most recent projects are the “live documentaries” Utopia in Four Movements (2010) and The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller, which premiered May 1, 2012, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art as part of the San Francisco International Film Festival. Both works are performed live, with Green narrating and musicians performing the soundtrack. Love Song will be touring throughout 2012-13. DOCUMENTARIES: Green’s previous long documentary, The Rainbow Man/John 3:16, follows the bizarre rise and fall of a man who became famous during the 1970s by appearing at thousands of televised sporting events wearing a rainbow wig. The film premiered at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival and has screened at festivals worldwide. “More than an exploration of life, The Rainbow Man is a parable about alienation, the media, and the meaninglessness that often defines American life.” – Trevor Groth, Sundance Film Festival Green’s short documentaries include lot 63, grave c, Pie Fight ’69 (directed with Christian Bruno), N-Judah 5:30, and The Fabulous Stains: Behind the Movie (directed with Sarah Jacobson). From http://samgreen.to/ Pages 2017 5 RELEVANT VOCABULARY: arrangement a musical reconceptualization of a previously composed work. It may differ from the original work by means of reharmonization, melodic paraphrasing, orchestration, or development of the formal structure. avant-garde a mode of filmmaking that rigorously re-evaluates cinematic cinema conventions and explores non-narrative forms and alternatives (aka experimental to traditional narratives or methods of working. film/ cinema) avant-garde music a French phrase meaning "vanguard" or (literally, "advance guard"), describes movements or individuals at the forefront of innovation and experimentation in their fields. Benshi tradition in Japan of professional narrators narrating silent films bowed string a subcategory of string instruments that are played by instruments a bow rubbing the strings.
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