The Rest is Noise in Performance Alex Ross & Ethan Iverson, piano April 25, 2010

Re-creating a show they developed for a sold-out performance at the Paris Bar in New York, writer Alex Ross and pianist Ethan Iverson join forces to present a unique exploration of 20th century music. Ross reads vivid portraits of the 20th century’s iconic composers from his universally acclaimed and 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, performs a piano interlude related to the reading, presenting a dynamic tour of the cultural and musical world of the 20th century, guided by two of the most interesting and respected forces in the cultural and musical world of today. The performance will include piano works of Debussy, Schoenberg, Bartók, Jelly Roll Morton, Ives, Stravinsky, Gershwin, Webern, Charlie Parker, Shostakovich, Babbitt and Ligeti.

Presented by the University Musical Society, www.ums.org.

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