Joshua Rifkin celebrates 40th anniversary of Joplin's Piano Rags album in NYC ... Alarm Will Sound performs Reich's Tehillim for NYC's Ecstatic Music Festival ... Ben Folds tours Midwest ... Philip Glass goes solo in Colombia ... Wanda Jackson plays free hometown show in Oklahoma City .... Glenn Kotche, Bang on a Can play Reich in Kentucky ... The Low Anthem performs at Bowdoin ... Stockholm celebrates Reich ... Allen Toussaint continues NYC residency ... Sara Watkins plays Boston with The Decemberists ... Dawn Upshaw, Gilbert Kalish give recital in Connecticut ... and more ...
Four decades ago, Nonesuch Records released recordings of Scott Joplin's Piano Rags by musicologist/conductor/pianist Joshua Rifkin that would go on to ignite a national passion for ragtime jazz in the United States in the early 1970s and "created, almost alone, the Scott Joplin revival," as New York magazine wrote. They also resulted in the label's first million-selling record.
Now, 40 years later, Rifkin will make his debut at (Le) Poisson Rouge in New York City on Sunday, performing the music of Joplin and kindred spirit J.S. Bach in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the album.
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Alarm Will Sound performs Steve Reich's Tehillim at Merkin Concert Hall in New York City on Sunday as part of the Ecstatic Music Festival. The program also includes the premiere of a new work by Ben Frost, along with music of Aphex Twin, Preshish Moments, and Matt Marks/Stefan Freund.
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Ben Folds continues the latest leg of his US tour, with support from Sing-Off finalists and fellow Nashvilleans Street Corner Symphony, at the Riverside Theater in Milwaukee tonight. They head next to St. Louis to perform at The Pageant Sunday night.
"Ben Folds rarely disappoints live," says American Songwriter in a review of his recent concert in Champaign, Illinois. "His show last night at the Assembly Hall was no exception."
Folds spoke with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about his Nonesuch debut album, Lonely Avenue, a collaboration with novelist Nick Hornby. You can read the article at stltoday.com.
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Philip Glass is on tour in Colombia this weekend, performing at the Teatro Adolfo Mejia in Cartagena tonight, preceded by a pre-show Q&A, and at the Teatro Mayor in Bogota on Saturday.
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Wanda Jackson celebrates this week's release of her new, Jack White-produced album, The Party Ain't Over, on Third Man / Nonesuch Records, when she gives a free concert for a hometown crowd at the University of Central Oklahoma's Academy of Contemporary Music in Oklahoma City tonight. The concert takes place at the ACM@UCO Performance Lab in Bricktown. Admission is free and on a first-come, first-served basis.
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Glenn Kotche joins Bang on a Can All-Stars for a performance at the University of Kentucky's Singletary Center for the Arts in Lexington, Kentucky, on Sunday. On the program are Steve Reich's Music for Pieces of Wood, arranged by David Cossin; Kotche's Snap, Mobile, and variations on Reich's Clapping Music; Louis Andriessen's Workers Union; Michael Gordon's For Madeline; and Brian Eno's Music for Airports 1/1, arranged by Gordon.
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The Low Anthem performs at Pickard Theater at Bowdoin College in snowy Brunswick, Maine, Saturday night, with Jukebox the Ghost, for the Bowdoin Entertainment Board's Winter Concert.
The band performed with Iron and Wine at the Wiltern in Los Angeles earlier this week. Variety described their performance as "a wonderful blend of Americana-infused rock music that sensitively conveyed emotion without sacrificing passion or charm." The two groups will tour together this April, following the release of The Low Anthem's new album, Smart Flesh, on February 22.
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In addition to the aforementioned performances of Steve Reich's work, the Stockholm Concert Hall's five-day celebration of Reich's music, Tonsättarfestivalen: Steve Reich, continues through the weekend, with a concert tonight by members of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Kroumata, Synergy Vocals, and the Dahlkvist Quartet featuring Triple Quartet, Proverb, and City Life. Saturday's program includes Mallet Quartet; Double Sextet and 2x5 (both off Reich's latest Nonesuch release); and Electric Counterpoint. Closing out the festival on Sunday, Amadinda, members of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and Synergy Vocals perform Different Trains, Sextet, and Music for 18 Musicians.
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Allen Toussaint plays the second in a five-week series of noontime Sunday performances at Joe's Pub in New York City this weekend.
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Sara Watkins continues her tour with The Decemberists, which she began earlier this week with a series of shows in New York, by playing two consecutive nights of shows at the House of Blues in Boston.
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Dawn Upshaw joins her longtime collaborator pianist Gilbert Kalish at Valley Regional High School in Deep River, Connecticut, on Sunday, as part of the Essex Winter Series. The concert marks Upshaw's debut recital with the series.
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