{"id":9957,"date":"2020-01-28T15:23:29","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T20:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/?p=9957"},"modified":"2020-07-14T14:47:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T18:47:45","slug":"transylvania-student-musicians-learn-from-ultimate-chamber-music-pioneers-the-kronos-quartet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/2020\/01\/transylvania-student-musicians-learn-from-ultimate-chamber-music-pioneers-the-kronos-quartet\/","title":{"rendered":"Transylvania student musicians learn from ultimate chamber music pioneers: the Kronos Quartet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"810\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/kronosclass-810x469.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9970\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/01\/kronosclass-810x469.jpg 810w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/01\/kronosclass-350x203.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/01\/kronosclass-730x422.jpg 730w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/01\/kronosclass-768x444.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/01\/kronosclass-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/01\/kronosclass.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Fresh from a concert at Carnegie Hall and a Grammy win on Sunday night, the Kronos Quartet met with members of the Transylvania orchestra on Monday afternoon. They broke the ice sharing stories about their early days as musicians, about \u201cwinning\u201d and \u201closing\u201d the Grammy over the decades, and the importance of maintaining an \u201ceven keel\u201d throughout the ensemble\u2019s astonishing career. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Kronos Quartet performs in Haggin Auditorium tonight at 7 p.m. The concert has sold out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Merriam-Webster defines a string quartet as four performers, including a first and second violin, viola and cello. David Harrington, violinist and founder of Kronos, sees it more as an expression of life in all its beauty, ugliness and fascination. To accomplish this level of musical storytelling requires extraordinary technique, expansive imagination, significant risk, camaraderie and an enthusiasm and commitment to new voices and ways of playing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ensemble\u2019s devotion to advancing the art form compels them to share their experience in classrooms, to commission new works and to create online projects like \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.50ftf.kronosquartet.org\/\">50 for the Future<\/a>.\u201d They invited Transy student musicians to take advantage of this free online library of new chamber music available for downloading, learning and performing, along with the tools to interpret and understand the techniques required. For the project, they commissioned 50 composers \u2014 25 women and 25 men from many cultures \u2014 to contribute to the repertoire. As violinist John Sherba noted to Transy\u2019s musicians, the project also encourages learning about the culture of the composer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Opportunity and risk often come in tandem. For young musicians facing artists of this caliber, in front of their peers,  putting bow to string and letting it rip requires a degree of grit and chutzpah. But the generosity and encouragement from Kronos members and their disarmingly relatable stories of their early days as musicians prevailed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cellist and composer Paul Wiancko, who is substituting for Sunny Yang while she is on maternity leave, spoke about finding his way as a composer. He described the seemingly opposite pulls he felt as a teen in having simultaneous interests in underground punk music and Lutos\u0142awski\u2018s cello concerto and how they could come together in his professional career. He borrowed a violin and a viola to play \u201ccello style,\u201d explaining how he records demos of the music he composes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hearing\nof Wiancko\u2019s less traditional route inspired\nphysics major and Transy\u2019s concertmaster, Ben Sexton \u201922, to pick up his violin\nand offer an improvisation. Cellist MacKenzie Sloan \u201922 then played a bit of\nSchumann. Each member of the quartet offered suggestions, with violist Hank\nDutt reminding the string players to let the elbow lead the bow arm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was very helpful and informative in a lot of ways,\u201d says Sexton, whose true passion is music. He appreciated being able to learn from people who have so much more experience and who have experimented with many different things to help them improve. As the musicians talked with him about varying the bow stroke and how to use silence, it became a breakthrough moment for him. \u201cHearing from a composer that space is a good thing,\u201d he later explained, \u201cI\u2019m not scared of incorporating it anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sloan, a political science major and history minor who has a fine arts scholarship, absorbed the musicians\u2019 multiple approaches on how to nail a challenging shift at the other end of the fingerboard. She admits it was nerve wracking, but found that she wasn&#8217;t worried about their feedback because they were so kind. &#8220;They made me feel good about it.\u201d Her biggest takeaways were: \u201cIf there\u2019s a moment, take it.\u201d And trust yourself. The advice from her fellow cellist was, she says, an important reminder. \u201cYou know where the note is. You\u2019ve got it. Close your eyes. 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