Clearly not easy, but so impressive to watch Bon Jovi sing the classic Chinese romantic song "Yue Liang Dai Biao Wo De Xin" (The Moon Represents My Heart) for Valentine's Day in China.
For more than 40 years, San
Francisco’s Kronos Quartet—David Harrington (violin), John Sherba (violin),
Hank Dutt (viola), and Sunny Yang (cello)—has combined a spirit of fearless
exploration with a commitment to continually re-imagining the string quartet experience. In
the process, Kronos has become one of the world’s most celebrated and
influential ensembles, performing thousands of concerts, releasing more than 50
recordings, collaborating with an eclectic mix of composers and performers, and
commissioning over 850 works and arrangements for string quartet. A Grammy
winner, Kronos also received the Polar Music Prize and the Avery Fisher Prize.
The non-profit Kronos Performing Arts Association (KPAA) manages all aspects of
Kronos’ work, including the commissioning of new works, concert tours
and home-season performances, education programs, and its new presenting
program KRONOS PRESENTS. In
2015 KPAA launched a new 5-year commissioning and education initiative, Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning
Repertoire, which will commission 50 new works (5 by women and 5 by men
each year) designed to train students and emerging professionals, and be distributed
online for free.