Short Stories (Kronos Quartet album)

1993 studio album by Kronos Quartet

Short Stories

Studio album by

Kronos Quartet

Released| 5 March 1993 (1993-03-05)
Studio| Skywalker Sound, Nicasio, California
Genre| Contemporary classical
Label| Nonesuch (#79310)
Kronos Quartet chronology
| Pieces of Africa
(1992)  | Short Stories
(1993)  | Henryk Górecki: String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2
(1993)

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Short Stories is a studio album by the Kronos Quartet, containing works by Elliott Sharp, Willie Dixon, John Oswald, John Zorn,[1] Henry Cowell, Steven Mackey, Scott Johnson, Sofia Gubaidulina,[2] and Pandit Pran Nath.[3]

## Track listing

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No.| Title| Writer(s)| Length

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1.| "Digital"| Sharp (1986)| 2:39
2.| "Spoonful"| Dixon (1960), arr. Steven Mackey (1989)| 4:32
3.| "Spectre"| Oswald (1990)| 5:47
4.| "Cat O' Nine Tails (Tex Avery Directs the Marquis de Sade)"| Zorn (1988)| 12:48
5.| "Quartet Euphometric"| Cowell (1916–19)| 1:54
6.| "Physical Property"| Mackey (1992)| 14:31
7.| "Soliloquy"| Johnson (1991–3)| 13:13
8.| "String Quartet No. 2"| Gubaidulina (1987)| 8:30
9.| "Aba Kee Tayk Hamaree"| Nath| 10:56

## Critical reception

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AllMusic's "Blue" Gene Tyranny describes this album as a, "fascinating collection," of nine pieces by, "very different composers," and that, "the Kronos Quartet is in top form throughout all these selections."[4] A Wired review says that, "a fine mesh of brains and guts, Short Stories is an eclectic roller-coaster ride through 20th-century music."[5]

## Personnel

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### Musicians

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* David Harrington – violin
* John Sherba – violin
* Hank Dutt – viola
* Joan Jeanrenaud – cello
* Steven Mackey – electric guitar
* Pandit Pran Nath – voice
* Krishna Bhatt – tabla
* Terry Riley – tanpura
* John Constant – tanpura

### Production

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* Bob Edwards, Howard Johnston – Engineers

## See also

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* List of 1993 albums
* Plunderphonics

## References

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1. ^ #3492: 40 Years (and more) of Kronos Quartet|New Sounds|WNYC
2. ^ KRONOS Five Decades - Cal Performances (PDF)
3. ^ Official website
4. ^ Short Stories at AllMusic.
5. ^ "Kronos Quartet: Pieces of Africa", Wired.com.

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* John Sherba
* Hank Dutt
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Studio albums|

* In Formation (1982)
* Monk Suite: Kronos Quartet Plays Music of Thelonious Monk (1985)
* Terry Riley: Cadenza on the Night Plain (1985)
* Music of Bill Evans (1986)
* Kronos Quartet (1986)
* Winter Was Hard (1988)
* Kronos Quartet Plays Terry Riley: Salome Dances for Peace (1989)
* Black Angels (1990)
* Witold Lutosławski: String Quartet (1991)
* Kevin Volans: Hunting:Gathering (1991)
* Five Tango Sensations (1991)
* Henryk Mikolaj Górecki: Already It Is Dusk/"Lerchenmusik" (1991)
* Pieces of Africa (1992)
* Short Stories (1993)
* Henryk Górecki: String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2 (1993)
* At the Grave of Richard Wagner (1993)
* Morton Feldman: Piano and String Quartet (1993)
* All the Rage (1993)
* Night Prayers (1994)
* Tan Dun: Ghost Opera (1997)
* Early Music (Lachrymæ Antiquæ) (1997)
* Kronos Quartet Performs Alfred Schnittke: The Complete String Quartets (1998)
* Terry Riley: Requiem for Adam (2001)
* Steve Reich: Triple Quartet (2001)
* Nuevo (2002)
* You've Stolen My Heart (2005)
* Henryk Górecki: String Quartet No. 3 ('...songs are sung') (2007)
* Kronos Quartet Plays Sigur Rós (2007)
* Terry Riley: The Cusp of Magic (2008)
* Floodplain (2009)
* Uniko (2011)
* Folk Songs (2017)
* Sun Rings (2019)
* Long Time Passing (2020)

Soundtracks|

* Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)
* Dracula (1999)
* Requiem for a Dream (2000)
* The Fountain (2006)

Related articles|

* Kronos Quartet discography
* Terry Riley

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* MusicBrainz release group

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