"People have been calling Steve Reich the greatest living composer for more than 25 years," says NPR's Weekend Edition host Ayesha Rascoe in her introduction to Reich's interview with NPR's Tom Huizenga on the release of the 27-disc box set Steve Reich Collected Works. About the collection, the composer says: "It makes me feel very good ... It's another way of saying the music is going to get out there. The music is going to have a life independent of me ... It's a great thing. And I'm very proud that it happened. And now I'm busily working on the next piece." You can hear them on NPR's Weekend Edition here.

The 27-disc box set Steve Reich Collected Works is out now on Nonesuch. It features music recorded during the composer's 40 years on the label—six decades of his compositions, including first recordings of his two latest works, Jacob’s Ladder and Traveler’s Prayer (both also available to stream/download today)—plus two extensive booklets with new essays by Robert Hurwitz, Michael Tilson Thomas, Russell Hartenberger, Judith Sherman, and Nico Muhly, and a comprehensive listener’s guide by Timo Andres. Nonesuch made its first record with Steve Reich in 1985; he was signed exclusively to the label that year. Collected Works includes 24 discs of Nonesuch recordings and three from other labels. You can watch an unboxing video narrated by the composer here.

Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway are with Brooks & Dunn in Texas, where Yasmin Williams headlines Fort Worth African American Music Festival. Hurray for the Riff Raff joins Bright Eyes in Tennessee and Georgia. Brad Mehldau and Cécile McLorin Salvant both tour France. Mandy Patinkin is in New Jersey. Ringdown performs from its upcoming debut album in Milan. Chris Thile joins Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra.

Cinematic electro-pop duo Ringdown, featuring Danni Lee Parpan and Pulitzer and Grammy winner Caroline Shaw, will release its debut album, Lady on the Bike, May 9. The album celebrates the feeling of possibility in myriad forms: the possibility of love; the possibility of creating connection and community in a world trying to pull those things apart; the possibility of making music in new ways. Ringdown will create additional custom sleeves for the first 50 Nonesuch Store vinyl orders. The duo will perform with Sō Percussion and in its own headlining shows this spring and summer.

Caramoor, the cultural arts venue on an 80-plus-acre estate in Katonah, NY, has announced its 2025 summer season—its 80th season!—including performances by Caroline Shaw, Sō Percussion, and Ringdown on July 10; Molly Tuttle on July 19; Chris Thile with The Knights on July 20; and Timo Andres on July 24.

Congratulations to Cécile McLorin Salvant, who has been nominated for the Deutscher Jazzpreis in Germany for Live Act of the Year International. She was nominated in the same category last year and won the prize for International Vocal Album for her 2022 Nonesuch debut album, Ghost Song. The awards ceremony will take place in Cologne on June 13. Salvant is currently on tour in Italy and France, then returns to the US to perform at Carnegie Hall in NYC and tour New Jersey, Florida, Texas, Maryland, California, Nevada, South Carolina, Michigan, and more. 

Caroline Shaw, Gabriel Kahane perform at Wigmore Hall in London. Laurie Anderson is at the Brooklyn Public Library. Julia Bullock sings Britten with Minnesota Orchestra. Jeremy Denk joins Academy of St Martin in the Fields in Bethlehem, Newark, and Worcester. Hurray for the Riff Raff joins Bright Eyes in Orlando, Atlanta, and Knoxville. Mandy Patinkin, Richard Goode are in Pennsylvania. Cécile McLorin Salvant is in Italy.

The twenty-seven disc box set Steve Reich Collected Works, out next Friday, March 14, on Nonesuch, includes a chronology of the composer's life and work—his forty years on the label and six decades of compositions heard in the collection, from It’s Gonna Rain (1965) to his two latest works, Traveler’s Prayer (2020) and Jacob’s Ladder (2023). A new video brings that chronology to life; you can watch it here.

Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway are featured in the latest installment of American Currents: State of the Music, the annual exhibit at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville showcasing country music and its place in American culture over the past year, open through January 2026. "I’m so honored to be included," Tuttle says. "I can’t thank the Country Music Hall of Fame enough for all the support they’ve shown me through the years. It’s extra special for me to share this display with Shelby, Kyle, Dom, and Bronwyn after countless miles and performances together."

Rhiannon Giddens and Justin Robinson have unveiled “Marching Jaybird,” an instrumental track from their forthcoming album of North Carolina fiddle and banjo music, What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow, due April 18. Revisiting this tune recorded by Etta Baker, one of their musical heroes and a key inspiration for making this new album, and recording it at Baker’s Morganton, NC, home "was a magical moment for Justin and me," Giddens says. "Walking into her house, which is frozen in time, looking just like it did when she was alive, very much reminded us of women in our families; sitting in her living room and recording this piece learned from her playing was pretty profound." You can watch the video here. Giddens has also announced a number of new tour dates, including the Hollywood Bowl, and shared more details about her Biscuits & Banjos festival, which takes place in Durham, NC, April 25–27.

Guitarist and composer Yasmin Williams, who continues her own headline tour later this month, will join St. Paul and the Broken Bones and The Wood Brothers as their special guest on six dates in the US Midwest in July. The shows start at Rock the Ruins in Indianapolis on July 10 and include stops in Cleveland, Interlochen, Fort Wayne, St. Louis, and Kansas City. General on-sale begins this Friday. 

Mary Halvorson and her new quartet are in NYC. Timo Andres performs in DC with Aaron Diehl. Julia Bullock joins Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Rhiannon Giddens is at Blue Note Tokyo. Emmylou Harris cruises on Cayamo. Hurray for the Riff Raff tours Texas and Baton Rouge with Bright Eyes. Nathalie Joachim brings Ki moun ou ye to Carlsbad, CA, and Beaverton, OR, where Steve Reich's Different Trains is performed.