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The centennial of Igor Stravinsky’s masterpiece The Rite of Spring has been celebrated throughout 2013, but Chicagoans will get the opportunity to take in one of the more unusual and provocative treatments of the ballet score when the Bad Plus perform their interpretation—which they call “On Sacred Ground: Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring,” partly admitting the danger of a jazz-oriented trio tackling such an iconic work of modern classical music—Friday night at the Logan Center for the Arts on the campus of the University of Chicago. The group—pianist Ethan Iverson, bassist Reid Anderson, and drummer David King—put their spin on part of another Stravinsky ballet, Apollo, on its 2009 album For All I Care (Heads Up), and then dared themselves to take on a bigger project. They debuted their version of Rite in a joint commission from Duke University and Lincoln Center in March of 2011.
