I’m not entirely sure why BrooklynVegan, Stereogum, Pitchfork, Hipster Runoff, etc. haven’t picked this up, but should you be in San Francisco, Ann Arbor, or sunny Kalamazoo this weekend, you can see that famous Alex Ross byline in the flesh. Tour dates can be found on Alex’s mostly-but-not-entirely retired blog, The Rest is Noise:
This weekend, Ethan Iverson and I will launch our globe-spanning, three-city modern-music tour, touching down in San
Francisco (rise and shine with Schoenberg at 10AM on Saturday), Ann Arbor (Sunday at 4PM), and Kalamazoo (Monday at 8PM). On his blog,
Ethan has issued an exquisitely annotated playlist, with plentiful
audio examples. For my part, I’m trying to perfect my Vincent Price and
Jackie Kennedy impersonations. We think it will be pretty fun in the
end. Tour photos will appear as time and technology allow.
I saw what I believe was the maiden voyage of the B12Tz show in New York when the book version of The Rest is Noise came out, and it is good, seriously dorky, stuff. Alex reads excerpts from the book, and Ethan Iverson of The Bad Plus fame performs accompanying pieces. Report back if you are able make one of the concerts and tell us how it was!
Photoshop Credit: The Rest is Noise, 2010
Oof. I hadn’t noticed that it was at 10 am. Geesh. What’s the point of being a composer if you’re still forced to get out of bed before noon.
OK. I’ll drag my butt out of bed for that. I’ll let ya know how it went.
Here ya go. A full report from the Iverson-Ross extravaganza in San Francisco this weekend.
http://blog.musicvstheater.com/2010/04/26/alexross/