Kronos Quartet - Short Stories

℗ & © 1993 Elektra Entertainment, a division of Warner Communications Inc. for the United States and WEA International for the world outside the United States.
Made in Germany

• Track 1 composed in 1986, published by Zoar Music (BMI)
• Track 2 composed in 1960 © 1960 & 1988 Hoochie Coochie Music (BMI/admin. by BUG);
Arrangement ©1989 Hendon Music (BMI)
• Track 3 composed in 1990, published by pitch (SOCAN)
• Track 4 composed in 1988, published by Theatre of Musical Optics (BMI)
• Track 5 composed in 1916-1919, published by C. F. Peters Corporation (BMI)
• Track 6 composed in 1992, published by Hendon Music (BMI)
• Track 7 composed in 1991, taken from "How It Happens (The Voice of I.F. Stone)", published by Emotomat Music (ASCAP)
• Track 8 composed in 1987, published by G. Schirmer, Inc. (ASCAP)
• Track 9 composed in 1992, published by Prana Nat Music (Editions Farneth International/BMI)

Recorded at Skywalker Ranch, August 1992 except:
• Track 3 recorded October, 1990 at Different Fur
• Track 4 recorded July, 1991, Skywalker Ranch
• Track 7: Voice sampling of I.F. Stone produced at Studio PASS, New York.

Tracks 3, 4, 6, 7 & 9 were written for Kronos. Track 2 was arranged for Kronos.

Track 3 was commissioned by the Wexner Center, Canada Council and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
Track 4 was commissioned by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New Music America Miami and Doris and Myron Beigler.
Track 6 was commissioned by the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival.
Track 7 was commissioned by Hancher Auditorium at the University of Iowa, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Center for the Arts at Penn State University.
Track 9 was commissioned by the Beigler Trust.

Cover: "Hommage", 1974. Typewriter, flames, propane. Courtesy of the Hess Collection.
Special thanks to Janet Cowperthwaite, Celia Gilbert, Kate Gilbert, Brooke Gladstone, Fred Kaplan, Terry Riley, Esther Stone and Judy Stone.

Issued in a Warner jewel case (embossed "W" logo on front) with 12-page booklet.