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  • Christina Courtin bw by Matt Kilmer
    Friday, November 21, 2008
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    Nonesuch Events for the Weekend of November 21–23

    Christina Courtin plays New York's new 92YTribeca ... Atlanta Symphony Orchestra performs a staged version of Adams's Doctor Atomic; Alarm Will Sound takes Adams works to Russia ... The Black Keys tour Northern Europe ... Glass's Symphony No. 3 makes for Moving Glass at Sweden's Royal Ballet ... Fred Hersch and Christopher O'Riley give a double recital and lecture-demonstration at Duke ... Robin Holcomb plays two shows in New York City ... k.d. lang performs a special benefit concert for Tibetan cultural organization ... Punch Brothers takes US tour to Arkansas ... Joshua Redman joins the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra in Norway ... eighth blackbird gives Reich's Double Sextet its European premiere; Doug Varone and Dancers dance to Daniel Variations ... Dawn Upshaw performs sold-out Kurtág's Kafka Fragments in Berkeley ... and more ...

  • Don Byron "Bug Music" [cover]
    Friday, November 14, 2008
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    Nonesuch Events for the Weekend of November 14–16

    Don Byron celebrates his 50th at New York's Jazz Standard with music from his Nonesuch catalog ... Kronos plays Adams's Fellow Traveler ... The Black Keys tour the UK with Liam Finn ... Shawn Colvin plays NY state ... Toumani Diabaté concludes his US fall tour ... Bill Frisell rounds out his European Trio tour of film music at the Barbican ... Emmylou Harris joins Garrison Keillor on A Prairie Home Companion ... k.d. lang closes out the latest leg of her Watershed tour ... Brad plays the Greek Theatre's final concert of the season ... the Nicholas Payton Quintet plays the high seas ... Joshua Redman plays Portugal ... Allen Toussaint does two dates in Virginia ... Dawn Upshaw brings Kurtág's Kafka Fragments to Lincoln Center ... and more ...

  • David Byrne Brian Eno Tour
    Friday, November 7, 2008
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    Nonesuch Events for the Weekend of November 7–9

    David Byrne brings his show—"as enigmatic and adventurous as his three decades-long career" (Boston Globe)—to Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and DC ... Adams's Doctor Atomic explodes onto movie screens around the world ... Laurie Anderson's Homeland tours Italy ... Shawn Colvin tours the Northeast and talks to the Washington Post ... Toumani Diabaté travels the West Coast ... Bill Frisell Trio's film music plays Eastern Europe ... Glass-scored ballets leap from Toronto to Miami to Sweden ... Kronos does Denver with Alternative Radio ... k.d. lang plays the Mile High City too ... Brad Mehldau and Joshua Redman trios meet up in Spain ... Punch Brothers play the Peace Center Bluegrass Festival ... Pacific Northwest Ballet performs to Reich ... Laura Veirs plays Portland's Siren Festival ... and more ...

  • Nonesuch logo
    Wednesday, November 5, 2008
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    Nonesuch.com Named Site of the Day by Adobe

    The newly redesigned Nonesuch Records site, launched this past July, has been named the Site of the Day by Adobe, which explains its selection of Nonesuch.com this way: "This site goes way beyond album promotion and song previews by giving fans more ways to enjoy their favorite music." The Nonesuch Journal was recently included among 50 Beautiful Blog Designs chosen by Smashing Magazine for having designs "that literally stand out—either through their layout or through their design or through their attention to little details." Let us know what you think.

  • Kronos Quartet desert
    Friday, October 31, 2008
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    Nonesuch Events for the Weekend of October 31–November 2

    Kronos continues its multi-year residency at the University of Maryland's Clarice Smith Center ... Cleveland Orchestra gives swing-state Ohio a short break from the campaign with Adams's Gnarly Buttons ... Laurie Anderson gives Netherlands premiere of "Amelia Earhart" ... David Byrne takes his "effortless artistic grace" (Montreal Gazette) to Boston and The Borgata ... Toumani Diabaté begins his two-week US tour in Boston ... Bill Frisell's Trio plays film music in Portugal ... k.d. lang beats Byrne to The Borgata ... Brad Mehldau Trio plays two nights in Austria ... Sam Phillips plays two sets at Yoshi's ... Joshua Redman Trio continues its tour of Europe ... Dawn Upshaw joins pianist Stephen Prutsman at Carnegie Hall ... Wilco's in Wisconsin, getting out the vote ... and more ...

  • Wilco
    Friday, October 24, 2008
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    Nonesuch Events for the Weekend of October 24–26

    Wilco plays Neil Young's Bridge School Benefit Concert ... Kronos Quartet gives John Adams piece its Swedish premiere ... Laurie Anderson speaks at UC Berkeley colloquium ... Sérgio and Odair Assad continue college tour with the Turtle Island Quartet ... David Byrne brings his "mind-blowing, booty-shaking music" to the Midwest ... Shawn Colvin performs there as well ... Bill Frisell's Trio is in Brazil ... k.d. lang plays the Ryman ... The Magnetic Fields close out their fall tour of "dizzyingly catchy songs" ... Brad Mehldau and Joshua Redman play Europe together and with their trios ... Randy Newman finishes his North American tour ... Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker's Steve Reich Evening comes to Brooklyn ... Dawn Upshaw repeats "transfixing" performance in St. Paul ... and more ...

  • Audra McDonald
    Friday, October 17, 2008
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    Nonesuch Events for the Weekend of October 17–19

    Audra McDonald joins Barbara Cook, Matthew Broderick, Sarah Jessica Parker, and The Black Keys join Devo for election-year benefits ... John Adams's Doctor Atomic continues at the Met; the Pittsburgh Symphony recognizes Adams as its Composer of the Year ... Laurie Anderson brings Homeland to Canada ... Sérgio and Odair Assad join the Turtle Island Quartet for a college tour ... Isabel Bayrakdarian’s Celebrating Gomidas Vartabed heads to her home country of Canada ... David Byrne disproves "this groove is out of fashion" at two tour stops in Missouri ... Shawn Colvin plays two shows in Mississippi ... Philip Glass shows “Glass overflows with the beauty of Cohen's poems" at Melbourne Festival ... Richard Goode performs in Kansas City ... k.d. lang tours the Midwest ... The Magnetic Fields’ fall tour heads south ... Randy Newman plays the Golden State and offers BBC his "desert island discs" ... Nicholas Payton continues residency at Jazz at Lincoln Center ... Joshua Redman plays 25th annual Festival Miami ... Chris Thile and Edgar Meyer return to the road ... and more ...

  • Brad Mehldau color horizontal
    Friday, October 10, 2008
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    Nonesuch Events for the Weekend of October 10–12

    Brad Mehldau and Chris Thile perform Bach at a Barack Obama benefit in NYC ... Adams and Rzewski works are on the program for an Obama benefit in Baltimore, while the Pittsburgh Symphony pairs Adams with Dvořák and the San Francisco Ballet brings Mark Morris's Joyride, with Adams music, to New York ... Laurie Anderson returns to Homeland after a trip to the Arctic ... Andriessen meets Kubrick when the Dresdner Sinfoniker pairs De Stijl with 2001 ... The Black Keys return to Akron ... David Byrne heads West with Eno songs, a white-clad band, and dancers ... Bill Frisell sets up shop at Yoshi's in Oakland with Russell Malone ... Philip Glass plays to the poetry of Leonard Cohen at the Sydney Opera House ... k.d. lang is back on tour in California ... The Magnetic Fields kick off their fall tour in Minneapolis ... Randy Newman plays the Midwest too ... Choreographer de Keersmaeker's Steve Reich Evening plays two nights in Aix-en-Provence ... and more ...

  • T Bone Burnett
    Friday, October 3, 2008
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    Nonesuch Events for the Weekend of October 3–5

    T Bone Burnett, Emmylou Harris, Shawn Colvin, and Jimmie Dale Gilmore all convene in San Francisco for the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Fest ... The Black Keys head south to North Carolina and South Carolina ... Isabel Bayrakdarian begins her American tour in San Francisco ... David Byrne's Songs of David Byrne and Brian Eno tour continues in California ... Ry Cooder makes his second of two rare live performances in San Francisco ... Randy Newman performs live on Late Late Show ... Chris Thile and Edgar Meyer perform music from their new album in Oregon ... Dawn Upshaw talks with Alex Ross at this weekend's New Yorker Festival ... and more ...

  • Glenn Kotche
    Friday, September 26, 2008
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    Nonesuch Events for the Weekend of September 26–28

    Glenn Kotche plays his own pieces and works by Steve Reich's at the Bang on a Can Marathon at the University of Illinois ... both of John Adams's Two Fanfares for Orchestra are performed—one in Pittsburgh, one in Orlando ... The Black Keys take Texas, from Dallas to Austin City Limits ... David Byrne also plays Austin City Limits, and Albuquerque ... Ry Cooder backs East L.A. singer Ersi Arvizu with her All Star Big Band at the San Jose Mariachi Festival ... Shawn Colvin plays Clayton, North Carolina ... Bill Frisell supports the environment in a Washington State benefit concert ... Emmylou Harris concludes her European tour ... Kronos Quartet plays with Alim Qasimov at the Barbican's Ramadan Nights ... Randy Newman tours the East Coast ... Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's Rosas dance company performs her Steve Reich Evening ... Chris Thile and Edgar Meyer play California ... and more ...

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