Kronos’ performance of Wayne Grim’s “233rd Day, before and after Totality” (a computer sonification of Monday’s total solar eclipse with live string quartet music) is SOLD OUT. However, to hear the concert, you do not have to be in the theater, at the Exploratorium, in San Francisco, or even in the United States! You just need a computer or phone. We’ll be one of the many live streams available on the Exploratorium’s website and free Total Solar Eclipse App for iOS and Android. The app, which includes information about the eclipse and safe viewing techniques, also allows users to view the eclipse live from their phones and tablets, and share to televisions in HD video.

On August 21, the sonification live stream begins at 9:15 a.m. PDT/12:15 p.m. EDT and Kronos begins playing at 10:30 a.m. PDT/1:30 p.m. EDT.

To learn more about our concert, check out NPR Classical’s article on Deceptive Cadence.

Kronos is thrilled to announce that World Circuit Records will release Ladilikan, the quartet’s joint album with Trio Da Kali on September 15. Listen to the first single on YouTube and Spotify.

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Trio Da Kali is a Malian griot ‘super-group’ formed, as part of Kronos’ third collaboration with the Aga Khan Music Initiative, in 2014 by musicologist Dr. Lucy Durán. Kronos is grateful for the ongoing partnership with AKMI, which brings the quartet together with leading musicians from around the world to compose, arrange, and perform new music rooted in regional traditions.

Comprised of incredibly gifted musicians from celebrated hereditary musical families in Mali, Trio Da Kali features balafon player Fodé Lassana Diabaté, a long-time member of Toumani Diabate’s Symmetric Orchestra, bass ngoni player Mamadou Kouyaté, the eldest son of the instrument’s greatest exponent Bassekou Kouyaté, and singer Hawa ‘Kassé Mady’ Diabate, daughter of Mali’s greatest traditional singer Kassé Mady Diabate.

Kronos is excited to share this wonderful music, which has previously been performed with Trio Da Kali in California, Maryland, and Switzerland. Giving a new voice to a timeless repertoire that is now endangered in contemporary Malian music, the album features arrangements by Fodé Lassana Diabaté and long-time Kronos collaborator Jacob Garchik that were commissioned by AKMI, a program of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture.