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September 11, 2001

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Kronos Quartet: In the Mix
Hear David Schulman's feature on how music is shaped in the studio
Kronos Quartet: In Rehearsal
Listen to the Performance Today radio piece about the first rehearsal of "Mini Skirt"
A Liberated Composer
Fred Child interviews Osvaldo Golijov about working with Kronos as composer and arranger
"Mini Skirt": Final Mix
Hear the final CD version of "Mini Skirt"
Catch a Glimpse of Kronos
Listen to the original "Mini Skirt" while watching video of the quartet rehearsing

Welcome! It's In Rehearsal, the new Web show from NPR.

On our first edition of In Rehearsal, we'll be bringing you the Kronos Quartet at work.

Kronos has two violins, a viola and a cello. But Beethoven's not their thing. Instead, the group has explored musical territory from Crumb to Piazzolla, from the fado bars of Lisbon to the throat singers of Tuva.

The members of Kronos let us listen in as they went through the process of rehearsing, recording, and mixing one of the cuts on their new album, Nuevo. It's not typical string quartet material. It's a space-age-bachelor-pad concoction by Juan Garcia Esquivel. He called it, "Mini Skirt."



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