Jean-Yves Thibaudet has had to cancel his Apple Store appearance tonight because of exhaustion from repeated delays in flying from Europe to the United States due to “le vulcan.” His arms are apparently too tired to box with Jobs. Ok, ok.
However, the The New Yorker‘s Alex Ross and The Bad Plus’ Ethan Iverson will end their The Rest is Noise tour in New York replacing Thibaudet at the Upper West Side Apple Store at 6:30pm. Details about program can be found on The Rest is Noise blog: http://bit.ly/aTQn87. Alex has promised not to play the piano.
And I had been looking forward to Alex’s 99th anniversary performance of Alban Berg’s Piano Sonata Op. 1…
Tonight, Thursday, Jean-Yves Thibaudet premieres Guillaume Connesson’s new mini-piano concerto, The Shining One, in Washington.
Here is a link to a program note:
http://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/?fuseaction=composition&composition_id=4368