Music Aperitivo: Giacomo Merega on Italo Calvino

TICKETED EVENT.

Join us at Rizzoli Bookstore on Sunday, March 22 at 5:00pm for an unforgettable evening of innovative jazz inspired by Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities.

Italo Calvino’s 1972 masterpiece novel Invisible Cities (Le cittá invisibili) is a catalog of imaginary cities described by Marco Polo to Kublai Khan. It’s a highly poetic and multilayered book in which architecture becomes a metaphorical manifestation of how dreams, memory, language, signs and trades inform the space we live as well as our interactions in said space. Each city is succinctly presented like an enigma and the dialogue between Polo and the Khan unravels like an oneiric game of chess, filled with images and still highly abstract.

In this performance, a reader (Andrew Fenlon) introduces a selection of Invisible Cities and the trio consisting of Giacomo Merega (bass guitar), Ned Rothenberg (reeds), and Terry McManus (guitar) improvises vignettes inspired by the many images and signifiers offered by this magnificent book.

PLEASE NOTE: This is a TICKETED EVENT. Doors open at 4:30 pm / show starts at 5:00 pm. Seating is limited and will be first come, first served.

Tickets include a 15% store discount which can be used the day of the concert, and a complimentary glass of wine provided by Field Blend Selections.