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Listen to This: An Evening with Alex Ross and 45th Parallel
Jan 26 2024
19:00
Patricia Reser Center for the Arts
Beaverton, USA
Cost: $44-54
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ABOUT THIS EVENT

Acclaimed author and music writer Alex Ross joins the virtuosos of 45th 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 45th Parallel then performs. This is a co-production with the Patricia Reser Center, 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 CenturyListen to This, and Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music. In 2008, he received a MacArthur Fellowship.

WORKS

Gyorgy Ligeti: Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet, mvmts. 1-3
John Luther Adams: The Wind in High Places
Richard Wagner: Wo in Bergen du dich birgst (from Die Walküre)
Florence Price: Five Folksongs in Counterpoint
Radiohead: Creep / Pyramid (arranged by Sergio Carreno)
Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring

PERFORMERS

Alex Ross, writer/narrator

Joe Berger, horn
Ron Blessinger, violin
Kayla Cabrera, viola
Sergio Carreno, percussion
Emily Cole, violin
Greg Ewer, violin
Maria Garcia, piano
Stephen Kehner, percussion
Shin-young Kwon, violin
Martha Long, flute
Charles Noble, viola
Marilyn de Oliveira, cello
Hannah Penn, mezzo soprano
Michael Roberts, percussion
James Shields, clarinet
Steve Vacchi, bassoon
Karen Wagner, oboe
Bora Yoon, vocals



THE VENUE

Patricia Reser Center for the Arts
12625 SW Crescent St
Beaverton, 97005
USA


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Website: https://thereser.org/


His music perfectly echoes the landscape he loves: impersonal, relentless, larger than human scale, yet gorgeous, a quiet chaos of colors, suffused with light. It’s not a climate everyone could live in. But for those who want to bathe their ears in an aural aurora borealis while staying warm inside, it’s a spiritual odyssey well worth taking. - Kyle Gann
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