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Classical Music/Opera Listings, for Feb. 25-March 3 Published: February 24, 2011 ★ Turtle Island String Quartet (Wednesday) This quartet has made a point of exploring jazz with the same seriousness it brings to classical works. Now it has taken on the music of Jimi Hendrix, which it plays with energy and inventiveness, if not quite the feedback-embellished grit that Hendrix brought to it himself. Hendrix dominates the program, which also includes “Tree of Life” by David Balakrishnan, one of the ... Read More

Bob Edwards Weekend January 22-23, 2011 HOUR ONE Gary Noesner worked for 30 years at the FBI. For 23 of those years he was a hostage negotiator and he retired as the chief of the Bureau’s Crisis Negotiation Unit, Critical Incident Response Group. Noesner has written about his former high-stress job in the book Stalling For Time: My Life as an FBI Hostage Negotiator. In this week’s installment of our ongoing series This I Believe, we hear the essay of Mary Anne Mrugalski, an award-winning ... Read More

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HAVE YOU EVER BEEN explores and celebrates the legacy of guitar rock icon Jimi Hendrix in grand TURTLE ISLAND QUARTET style. In the late 1960s, Jimi Hendrix redefined the potential of not only the guitar but the entire genre of rock. Turtle Island Quartet – led by founding violinist David Balakrishnan, has reexamined and reconstructed conventional genres of music and sought new permutations of style, technique and composition. The quartet reinterprets the music of a pivotal figures in music by ... Read More

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Turtle Island String Quartet photographed at The Fox Theater in Oakland, CA April 22, 2010(C)Jay Blakesberg Something old, something new 1/7/2011 By GARY DEMUTH Salina Journal As a young man, David Balakrishnan was a classical violinist who loved jazz, a bluegrass fiddler who grooved on swing, be-bop, rock music and the music of his father's native India. But when it came to forming his own musical identity, the Los Angeles native couldn't commit to one particular style. So he decided to ... Read More

Wednesday, December 29th, 2010 Turtle Island Quartet at Stiefel Theatre January 15th The Stiefel Theatre presents the Turtle Island Quartet, Saturday, January 15th at 7:30pm. A glorious fusion of jazz and classical, the Turtle Island Quartet has been the very definition of American Chamber music for over 25 years. From stages around the globe to international airwaves, winner of two recent Grammy’s for Best Classical Crossover, the Turtle Island Quartet is the most acclaimed ensemble of its ... Read More

“Have You Ever Been…” Turtle Island Quartet Plays The Music of JIMI HENDRIX And The Music Of DAVID BALKRISHNAN Telarc Records Gary Eskow December 25th, 2010 David Balakrishan has a problem with the Turtle Island Quartet. Well, not really. The group, which he founded a quarter of a century ago, has won a pair of Grammy Awards in the last several years and their latest release “Have You Ever Been…?” is amassing critical praise. Robert Friedrich, who tracked, mixed, and mastered the project at ... Read More

Thursday, December 23, 2010 David Balakrishnan and Mark Summer are the two founding members of The Turtle Island Quartet. Along with members Mads Tolling and Jeremy Kittel, they join Bob in-studio for a perf-chat to discuss their latest recording Have You Ever Been…?, which is an homage to Jimi Hendrix. XM 133/Sirius 196 M-F 8 AM (ET) Encore presentations: Tue-Sat 4 AM M-F 9 AM M-F 10 AM M-F 3 PM M-F 8 PM M-F 9 PM (replay of previous day’s show) M-F 10 PM Sat 7-9 AM (Bob Edwards ... Read More