When Kronos Quartet returns to Carnegie Hall next month, the group will give the world premiere performance of Fernando Otero's El Cerezo (The Cherry Tree), which the Argentinean-born composer wrote for Kronos. The program for the February 22 concert in Zankel Hall will also feature the first public performance of John Adams's Fellow Traveler, which the composer wrote at Kronos' request for Peter Sellars's 50th birthday and the New York premiere of Clint Mansell's Requiem for a Dream Suite.

Rolling Stone's Peter Travers, in his four-star review of Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood, writes that "in terms of excitement, imagination and rule-busting experimentation, it's a gusher ... There Will Be Blood hits with hurricane force." Travers says Greenwood's score "is revolutionary, a sonic explosion that reinvents what movie music can be."

The Black Keys join label mate Steve Reich on the roster for this year's South by Southwest conference, which will be held March 12-16 in Austin, Texas. For the band, their performance marks the start of a tour in support of their forthcoming Nonesuch release. Reich will be speaking at the conference with Sonic Youth front man Thurston Moore.

The Broadcast Film Critics Association has honored There Will Be Blood with two Critics' Choice Awards: Best Actor for Daniel Day-Lewis and Best Composer for Jonny Greenwood. 

To say that Glide magazine's Martin Malloy wonders rhetorically how a collaboration on There Will Be Blood among three "masters of their domain"—Paul Thomas Anderson, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Jonny Greenwood—could possibly disappoint. "Well it can't!" he answers. "And it didn't." For the reviewer, "the most gratifying experience of the whole film was Jonny Greenwood's emergence as an incredible film composer ... Greenwood’s score gets under your skin and doesn’t leave for over two hours, yet it’s somehow still beautiful and enthralling."