CAP UCLA Presents A Thousand Thoughts A Live Documentary With The Kronos Quartet

UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance (CAP UCLA) presents A Thousand Thoughts: A live documentary with the Kronos Quartet, a fiercely creative multimedia performance written and directed by Oscar-nominated filmmakers Sam Green and Joe Bini on Friday, Dec. 7, at 8 p.m. at The Theatre at Ace Hotel Downtown Los Angeles. Tickets for $29-$59 are available now at cap.ucla.edu and theatre.acehotel.com, 310-825-2101 and The Theatre at Ace Hotel box office.

Green takes the stage with the Kronos Quartet to create A Thousand Thoughts. As Green tells the story of the legendary ensemble, Kronos performs music from their multi-decade spanning career. The groundbreaking string quartet incorporates music by George Crumb, Aleksandra Vrebalov and many others while archival footage, photos, and interviews with members of Kronos and their collaborators are projected on screen.

Kronos founder David Harrington described part of the quartet's guiding vision to Sam Green as a quest, saying "We have not created the bulletproof piece of music that will prevent harm from happening-you know, [that] a young child can wrap around herself or a grandparent can wrap around his family. We haven't been able to do that yet, but I think it's possible, and I spend every minute of my waking life trying to find that."

Providing proof that music has the power to change the world, A Thousand Thoughts is a meditation on music itself-the act of feeling music as well as hearing it.
Funds for this performance provided in part by Susan & Leonard Nimoy and the Good Works Foundation in support of the CAP UCLA Artists' Fellowship Program.
CAP UCLA's contemporary classical events continue in 2019 with Nadia Sirota: Living Music LIVE! with wild Up Featuring Andrew Norman and Caroline Shaw (Jan. 12, The Theatre at Ace Hotel), Meredith Monk: Cellular Songs (March 2, Royce Hall), and Nico Muhly: Archives, Friends, Patterns (May 10, The Theatre at Ace Hotel).