Every time I listen to David Harrington of the Kronos Quartet, I feel totally musically, spiritually and philosophically inspired about the art of music. More than anything, his focus on collaboration and the deep inner relation to music that trancends categorical boundaries is so refreshing in this era of self-oriented musical marketing and reputation building. The whole really is greater than the sum of it's parts. I've been fortunate enough to see Kronos a few times, most recently by chance in a small hall in Gothenburg, Sweden where we lived last Spring and prior to that when they did a weeklong residency at the Krannert Center for the Arts in Urbana, Illinois.
