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The Kronos Quartet is known for its wild, wide-ranging collaborations. The latest one took the San Francisco string quartet on a trip of sorts to Central Asia. The World’s Adeline Sire recently caught up with Kronos’s artistic director David Harrington. She has today’s Global Hit.

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