“In the ’70s, the Kronos Quartet made the once-stodgy string quartet stylish enough [for] David Bowie … In the ’80s, violinist Nigel Kennedy sported such a punk look that he was once turned away at the backstage door of a London concert hall … Organist Cameron Carpenter and violinist Amadéus Leopold come across, in their bejeweled fashion statements, as 21st century Liberacistes.”