In 1993, they recorded Kronos Quartet Performs Philip Glass, containing his String Quartets nos. In that same year they recorded a composition of his for their 1986 album Kronos Quartet, their first album on Nonesuch Records, which also releases Glass's music. In 1986, they contributed two tracks to his Songs from Liquid Days. Kronos first recorded a Glass composition on the 1985 soundtrack Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters. Glass and the Quartet have collaborated on a number of albums. Other promotion efforts by Universal, which was trying to "reinvigorate and re-market" their Classical Monsters catalog, included discounts for buyers of multiple CDs, and a trailer for the movie on copies of the video release of The Mummy. Kronos and Glass (on piano) performed the score during viewings of the movie across the United States in 19 to promote the album. According to Glass, the choice of chamber music played by a string quartet rather than an orchestral score followed from the movie's setting, "libraries and drawing rooms and gardens." Glass was commissioned to write the score by Universal Studios Home Entertainment, which released the movie with the Glass-soundtrack on VHS and DVD in 1999. Unusually, it did not have a specific score and only two pieces of music on its soundtrack: Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake during the opening credits, and the overture of Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg during a scene at an opera. The movie (directed by Tod Browning and starring Bela Lugosi) could be shown to audiences both as a silent movie and as a talkie, though conversation was limited to basic narrative elements. ![]() John Adams: John's Book of Alleged Dancesĭracula is a soundtrack performed by the Kronos Quartet, with music composed by Philip Glass, for the 1931 film Dracula. Judith Sherman, Michael Riesman, Kurt Munkacsi
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