January 24 and 25, 2026 at 8:00 PM
MELA Foundation Dream House
275 Church Street, New York
MELA Foundation is pleased to announce two premiere performances of La Monte Young’s Chronos Kristalla from The Magic Chord x 4 at the Bourse de Commerce, to mark the closing of the exhibition Minimal, a major exhibition dedicated to Minimalist art. The work is performed in the museum’s Rotunda by a double string quartet led by Charles Curtis, within a luminous and visual environment designed by Marian Zazeela and Jung Hee Choi.
Chronos Kristalla, a major composition for string quartet by legendary American avant-garde composer La Monte Young (b. 1935), was originally composed in 1989–90 as a commission for the Kronos Quartet and stands as a monumental exploration of just tunings, natural harmonics, and sustained resonant overtones. Despite its significance, Chronos Kristalla was performed only a few times between 1990 and 1995 and was never made available as a commercial recording. As a result, the work has not been heard publicly for more than thirty years.
The Theatre of Eternal Music String Ensemble
Led by Charles Curtis
Charles Curtis · cello
Reynard Rott · cello
Judith Hamman · cello
Peter Ko · cello
Jeff Thayer · violin
Clara Levy · violin
Eyvind Kang · viola
Andrew Mcintosh · viola
In a setting of
Dream Light
Marian Zazeela
Time Crystals Rippling Over the Magenta Ocean
Jung Hee Choi