A Hilarious, Heartfelt Family Adventure!
A Hilarious, Heartfelt Family Adventure!
A Hard Rain is the Kronos Quartet’s newest large-scale program, created in collaboration with the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and inspired by the Doomsday Clock. An idea born in Chicago, where Kronos performed for a gathering of Nobel Prize–winning physicists addressing existential threats such as nuclear weapons, climate change, and artificial intelligence. That performance—combining music with readings from Hiroshima survivors, world leaders, and historical archives—sparked the vision for a program exploring the fragility of civilization and honoring the scientists working to safeguard it.
Marking the 80th anniversary of the Trinity nuclear test, the Kronos Quartet, together with The Hard Rain Collective, has released two powerful reimaginings of Bob Dylan’s “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall” – a sung version, featuring an eclectic ensemble of voices including Iggy Pop, Willie Nelson, Allison Russell, Laurie Anderson, and Stephin Merritt, supported by members of Belle & Sebastian, Deerhoof, Patti Smith’s band, and a Brooklyn choir. And a counterpart offering an experimental spoken-word interpretation featuring Ringo Starr, Tom Morello, Ocean Vuong, Charlotte Gainsbourg, among others.
The full program expands these collaborations, including new texts by poet Ocean Vuong.
Xian Zhang conductor
Gil Shaham violin
New Jersey Symphony
Celebrate America’s 250th Anniversary with New Jersey Ballet in a powerful evening of dance that captures the spirit, energy, innovation, and resilience of the nation through the language of ballet. Red, White and Blue brings together iconic masterworks and bold contemporary voices in a program that reflects the many dimensions of the American experience while honoring New Jersey’s essential role in the fight for independence and the shaping of the nation.
