Kronos Quartet performs Terry Riley’s multimedia piece Sun Rings, joined by special guest vocal ensemble Volti conducted by Robert Geary, at Zellerbach Hall in Berkeley, California, on Sunday. Sun Rings, which Riley wrote for Kronos in 2002, features “spacescapes” recorded by NASA and expresses "a sound both definitively human and celestial,” says the Los Angeles Times.

Nonesuch released a five-disc box set of works Riley wrote for Kronos in honor of his 80th birthday last year titled One Earth, One People, One Love, after the final movement of Sun Rings. The box set and the Quartet’s performance of that piece in particular, were praised by Mojo as being “elegant” and “beautifully moving.”

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John Adams’s City Noir is performed by the Florida Orchestra, conducted by Michael Francis, and featuring soloist Timothy McAllister on alto sax, throughout the orchestra’s home state this weekend. The program, which also includes Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3, “Eroica,” comes to Straz Center for the Performing Arts’s Ferguson Hall in Tampa tonight, Duke Energy Center for the Arts’s Mahaffey Theater in St. Petersburg on Saturday, and Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater on Sunday.

Nonesuch released Adams’s City Noir, as recorded by the St. Louis Symphony, led by Music Director David Robertson, and featuring McAllister, in 2014. The album received a Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance. Adams wrote his Saxophone Concerto, also on that album, for McAllister after seeing the saxophonist (whom he calls "a fearless musician and risk taker") perform what the composer calls a "fiendishly difficult" alto sax solo part in City Noir.

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Laurie Anderson joins Marina Abramovic for a sold-out National Sawdust + Talk (a free-form conversation between the two) at National Sawdust in Brooklyn on Sunday afternoon. The talk is the latest installment of the venue’s NS+ series.

Later that evening, Anderson participates in a post-screening conversation for Red Shirley at the Tenement Museum in New York City. The film, released in 2010, captures a conversation between the activist and immigrant Shirley Novick and her cousin, Lou Reed, on the eve of her 100th birthday. Anderson talks with Ralph Gibson, Reed’s co-director and the film’s cinematographer; historian Tony Michels; and Merrill Weiner, Reed’s sister. The event is free, and seating is first-come, first-served. 

Anderson’s new film Heart of a Dog premiered on HBO earlier this week and is now available to watch anytime on HBO GO. The New York Times calls it "wildly inventive ... philosophically astute, emotionally charged." The film will open in UK cinemas starting May 10 at the Brighton Festival, of which Anderson is the guest director. She recently spoke with Monocle, The Argus, and The Big Issue in advance of that opening.

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The Arcs conclude their North American spring tour this weekend, playing the Levitation Festival in Austin tonight, the House of Blues in New Orleans on Saturday, and the Beale Street Music Festival in Memphis on Sunday. Dan Auerbach spoke to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ahead of the band’s show at The Pageant earlier this week; you can read the interview here.

The band meets up again at the end of May for a free show in Montauk, New York, before embarking on a ten-city tour in July, including stops at the Newport Folk Festival and Lollapalooza.

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Jeremy Denk gives a solo piano recital at the Gardiner Theater in Pawling, New York, tonight. The New York Times, reviewing his recent concert at Carnegie Hall, calls it “rhapsodic … wildly imaginative … compelling … [and] elegant.”

Denk will join John Adams, conducting the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in Adams’s Harmonielehre and Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto, for four nights in Maryland next month, and plays with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra for three nights shortly thereafter.

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Emmylou Harris performs a set at Stagecoach, California’s country music festival, at the Empire Polo Club in Indio tonight. She will lead a series of shows with special guests at City Winery in Nashville in May to benefit her dog rescue, Bonaparte’s Retreat.

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Lake Street Dive concludes its European tour, featuring music from the band’s Nonesuch Records debut album, Side Pony, with a set at the Ballydehob Jazz Festival in Cork, Ireland, on Saturday. Fans across Ireland can watch the band perform the album track "Call Off Your Dogs" live on RTÉ One’s The Late Late Show tonight. Band mates Rachael Price and Bridget Kearny recently spoke with Relix magazine about the new album and more; you can read what they had to say here. Lake Street Dive will resume its US tour in late May.

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Pat Metheny joins the likes of Herbie Hancock, Aretha Franklin, Chick Corea, Sting, Buddy Guy, and many others at the White House tonight, for an all-star concert celebrating the fifth-annual International Jazz Day, hosted by President Obama and the First Lady. The concert will be broadcast as a one-hour primetime ABC television special, “Jazz at the White House,” on Saturday evening, and streamed on the United Nations, UNESCO, U.S. State Department and White House websites.

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Punch Brothers kick off a two-week tour of the United States at the Charleston Music Hall, a double bill with Dave Rawlings Machine, in South Carolina tonight, and play the Fais Do-Do Stage at the New Orleans Jazz Festival on Sunday evening.

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Also happening at the New Orleans Jazz Fest is a tribute to the late Allen Toussaint, hosted by The Allen Toussaint Band, and featuring special guests Cyril Neville, Davell Crawford, Aaron Neville, Bonnie Raitt, Dr. John, and Jon Batiste, at the Gentilly Stage on Sunday afternoon.

Nonesuch releases Toussaint’s final recording, American Tunes, on June 10. Produced by Joe Henry, the album features solo piano made at Toussaint's New Orleans home studio and others made with musicians Jay Bellerose, Bill Frisell, David Piltch, Charles Lloyd, Greg Leisz, Rhiannon Giddens, and Van Dyke Parks in Los Angeles. American Tunes includes works by Toussaint, Professor Longhair, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Paul Simon, and others. Nonesuch Store pre-orders include an instant download of the album track "Big Chief," and an exclusive, limited-edition print.