The Rest Is Noise in Performance: Alex Ross April 25, 2010

The Rest Is Noise In Performance: Alex Ross, The New Yorker.Ethan Iverson, PianoTwo of todays most interesting and respected cultural forces present a dynamic tour of the 20th century. Re-creating a show they developed for a sold-out performance at the Paris Bar in New York, The New Yorker writer Alex Ross and pianist Ethan Iverson join forces to present a unique exploration of 20th-century music. Ross will read vivid portraits of the 20th-centurys iconic composers from his best-selling book The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century. After each selection, Iverson, the pianist in the postmodern jazz trio The Bad Plus and former musical director of Mark Morris Dance Group, will perform a piano interlude related to the reading. The performance includes piano arrangements of Debussy, Schoenberg, Bartok, Jelly Roll Morton, Ives, Stravinsky, Gershwin, Webern, Charlie Parker, Shostakovich, Babbitt, and Ligeti.