Listen to this: An evening with Alex Ross

Acclaimed author and music writer Alex Ross joins the virtuosos of 45^th Parallel for an evening of words and music, a unique concert experience that will entertain, edify, enlighten, and exhilarate! Alex will read from his books and essays, providing compelling context to the music that 45^th Parallel then performs. This is a co-production with The Reser, and will be recorded for broadcast on All Classical Portland.

Alex Ross has been the music critic of The New Yorker since 1996. He is the author of The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, Listen to This, and Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music. In 2008, he received a MacArthur Fellowship.

Program: 

Bagatelles by Gyorgy Ligeti

Appalachian Spring by Aaron Copland

Intermezzo Op. 117 no. 1 by Johannes Brahms

Quartet Concertante no. 5 in G Major by Chevalier de Saint-Georges

Arias by Richard Wagner (voice and piano)

Radiohead arrangements

Please note that programming is subject to change

Performers:

Alex Ross, writer/narrator

45^th Parallel Universe Ensembles

Pyxis Quartet

mousai REMIX Quartet

Gemini Percussion

Arcturus Quintet

Maria Garcia, pianist