Kronos Quartet provides a soundtrack for World War I

That war is a beastly undertaking almost no one disputes, but a performance by the Kronos Quartet on Saturday drove it home. To highlight its beastliness, and to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War I, the string quartet has created a collage of WWI-era pieces they've entitled "Prelude to a Black Hole" and put it together with the recently premiered music/film collaboration "Beyond Zero: 1914-1918." They performed the two without interruption at the University of Maryl...