Alverno Presents: Performing Arts Events

Vijay Iyer Quartet

Saturday March 8, 2008 8 p.m.

Pitman Theatre

Ticket Price: $28


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"One of the most original and accomplished young pianists in years... Iyer's percussive yet supple keyboard touch is something to marvel at." (Gary Giddens, The Village Voice). We all know what music sounds like. But when we begin to consider the experience of music in visual and tactile terms, when we start thinking about how music looks and how music feels, you know you're entering into new territory. Perhaps it's because Vijay Iyer is making music from source material way outside the usual suspects of jazz – African, Asian, as well as European musical lineages – that makes you want to describe it with words like "crystalline" and "wire-sharp" and "oceanic". But when all is said and done, it is about the sound, and music that is as structurally sophisticated as it is emotionally thrilling.

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