Recordings

Short Stories

Kronos Quartet

1993

“A fine mesh of brains and guts, Short Stories is an eclectic roller-coaster ride through 20th-century music.”

Patrick Barber, Wired

About the album

Gathering pieces from Lower East Siders Elliot Sharp and John Zorn, Russia’s Sofia Gubaidulina, Pakistani singer Pandit Pran Nath, and Chicago bluesman Willie Dixon, among others, “this bracing collection of short, disparate pieces admirably depicts the Kronos Quartet’s vast range” (The New York Times).

SELECT CREDITS

Kronos Quartet
David Harrington, violin
John Sherba, violin
Hank Dutt, viola
Joan Jeanrenaud, cello

with
Steven Mackey, guitar
Pandit Pran Nath, voice
Krishma Bhatt, tabla
Terry Riley, John Constant, tamboura

Produced by Judith Sherman and Kronos Quartet
Executive Producer: Robert Hurwitz

Digital
Composed by Elliott Sharp
Spoonful
Composed by Willie Dixon, arr. S. Mackey
Spectre
Composed by John Oswald
Cat O’ Nine Tails (Tex Avery Directs the Marquis de Sade)
Composed by John Zorn
Quartet Euphometric
Composed by Henry Cowell
Physical Property (feat. Steven Mackey)
Composed by Steven Mackey
“Soliloquy” from How It Happens (The Voice of I. F. Stone)
Composed by Scott Johnson
Quartet No. 2
Composed by Sofia Gubaidulina
Aba kee tayk hamaree (It is my turn, Oh Lord) (feat. Pandit Pran Nath, Krishna Bhatt, Terry Riley, John Constant)
Composed by Pandit Pran Nath