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The Bad Plus "On Sacred Ground"
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Friday February 25, 2011
from Jazz Times
The Bad Plus “On Sacred Ground
By Jason Rabin
The Bad Plus are set to take on a monster of modern classical music. On Saturday March 26 at 8PM, pianist Ethan Iverson, bassist Reid Anderson and drummer Dave King will premiere “On Sacred Ground: Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring,” at Duke University’s Reynolds Theater, with an accompanying multi-media presentation by architect Cristina Guadalupe and filmmaker Noah Hutton.
The jazz trio’s take on this piece, famous for the rhythmic irregularities and dissonance that spurred a riot at its 1913 Paris debut, has been over a year in the making. It was co-commissioned by New York’s Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and by Duke University, where the band has committed to three, week-long residencies during which they will read, critique and even record and perform the work of graduate student composers.
In describing their approach to the arrangement, Duke Performances Director Aaron Greenwald refers repeatedly to the “impressive earnestness” of the trio, known for their instrumental takes on pop tunes as well as a few previous forays into contemporary classical music.
“Although they are frequently pigeonholed as being ironic in one way or another,” Greenwald says, their primary pursuit as an ensemble is a kind of earnest expression. There’s not a whole lot of winking going on.”
Pianist Ethan Iverson, Greenwald says, “has probably read all he possibly could about Stravinsky in the time that he’s been working on this commission and he’s probably played through every score that he’s been able to get his hands on.”
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