Kronos Quartet returns to Tanglewood in Lenox, Massachusetts, this Thursday, quite coincidentally just two days after label mates Wilco appear there. (Kronos premiered Wilco drummer Glenn Kotche's piece Anomaly last year with Kotche; the five musicians give the Chicago premiere at Ravinia on September 3.) Highlights of Thursday's program include Stephen Prutsman's arrangement for Kronos of Sigur Rós's Flugufrelsarinn; selections from John Zorn's The Dead Man, which Zorn penned for the Quartet; and Steve Reich's Triple Quartet, also written for the group.

Boston Globe correspondent David Weininger spoke with Kronos founder and violinist David Harrington about the upcoming performance and about the Quartet's vital role in the creation of new music.

"Kronos is responsible for bringing into being hundreds of pieces, among them seminal works by Morton Feldman, Henryk Górecki, Steve Reich, and Osvaldo Golijov," writes Weineger. "They essentially created their own avant-garde."

He also contends that "sustaining that forward direction is an ongoing, full-time job" for Kronos and adds that, after speaking with the violinist, "it becomes clear that Harrington's musical curiosity remains undimmed after 35 years."

To read the article and get David Harrington's take on the current state of music, visit boston.com.