Landfall: Laurie Anderson and the Kronos Quartet

Saturday, April 20, 2013 | 8:00 pm
Sunday, April 21, 2013 | 7:00 pm

Bing Concert Hall

$25.00–60.00 (Adult) | $10.00 (Stanford Student)
$18.00–55.00 (Other Student)
$10.00–28.00 (Youth Under 18)

Stanford Faculty/Staff Final-Week Discount is not available for this performance.

Two legendary forces in new music since the 1980s come together on stage in their first-ever collaboration, presenting a new evening-length work that combines their distinct yet highly compatible aesthetics. Praised for her “mystery, melodrama, and humor” (New York Times), Anderson is recognized worldwide for the singular marriage of technology and humanity in her work—alternately playing the roles of composer, poet, filmmaker, singer, and more. The recipients of the Polar Music Prize and Avery Fisher Award, Kronos Quartet mark their 40th anniversary in 2013, having journeyed with countless audiences through a repertoire that rings the globe and that spans from early music to more than 750 works commissioned by or for Kronos.

Program

Landfall (West Coast premiere)
The performance will last approximately 70 minutes with no intermission.

DISCUSSION

There will be a post-performance Q&A with Laurie Anderson and the Kronos Quartet on Saturday evening.

Acknowledgments

Commissioned by Stanford Live, Stanford University with the generous support of Sarah Ratchye & Ed Frank Family Foundation and Apple; Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, University of Maryland, College Park; Adelaide Festival, Australia; Barbican, London; Peak Performances @ Montclair State (NJ); Perth International Arts Festival, Australia; University Of Texas Performing Arts Center, Austin.

Additional project support was provided to the Kronos Performing Arts Association by the National Endowment for the Arts.