Once a steelworker and now a genre-defying electronic composer, Jlin made history at the Library of Congress with the ...

At various points of the public event, the Nobel laureates and nuclear experts looked back at the Manhattan Project ...

July 16, marked the 80th anniversary of the Trinity Test, the US military’s first detonation of a nuclear weapon in the deserts of New Mexico.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Nuclear weapons have not been used in war since 1945, although there have been close calls. Now, a new arms race is heating up.

On July 16, 1945, the United States carried out the Trinity test, the world’s first nuclear detonation. Today, 80 years later ...

Two new renditions of Dylan’s “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall” memorialize the 80th anniversary of the Trinity test ...

Through its 10-year-old Summermusik program, the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra has introduced lively, sometimes surprising ...

The Kronos Quartet has learned after five decades to focus each program by first asking itself one question: What does society need to realize right now?

News about Kronos Quartet. Commentary and archival information about Kronos Quartet from The New York Times.

The revered and influential new-music quartet based in the Bay Area hosts a series of concerts June 20-23 celebrating its 50th anniversary.

Kronos Quartet celebrating bittersweet 50th anniversary as two members will soon depart This daring foursome, which was seen as too edgy and out there for many traditional chamber-music and ...