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Dates: during 1980-1989
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CLINT BLACK: KILLIN' TIME (RCA). Real nice, unassuming, go-to-meeting country music, by a new Nashville hotshot. Black sounds like Randy Travis with a few more years of book learning, and he's got a knack for cozy melodies...
Guess again. The blond (Joan Jeanrenaud) is a cellist by craft, and the longhair (Hank Dutt) plays, appropriately, the viola. Along with violinists David Harrington and John Sherba, they form the Kronos Quartet, the nation's most adventurous chamber-music ensemble. No Haydn or Mozart for this earnest foursome. Works by Charles Ives and Anton Webern are probably the creakiest items in their wide, of-today repertoire. It ranges from Steve Reich's Different Trains, in which synthesized voices, recorded railroad sounds and minimalist arpeggios are combined in a haunting memoir, to a growling, down- and-dirty setting of Jimi...
...time when chamber music seems to be enjoying something of a boom, the Kronos following rivals that of a rock band. The quartet gives more than 100 concerts annually, to largely young, near sellout crowds, and all three of its albums (Electra/Nonesuch) have made Billboard's classical charts. In addition, a March released recording of Reich's music, which includes Different Trains, is also on the charts...
COAST TO COAST (Showtime, June 17, 11 p.m. EDT). Singers Kenny Loggins and Linda Ronstadt, country stylist Lyle Lovett and jazz pianist Harry Connick Jr. provide eclectic sounds for a summer night in this edition of the occasional music series...