David Longstreth hosts three listening parties / performances of music from Song of the Earth, his upcoming album with Dirty Projectors and s t a r g a z e, at Public Records in Brooklyn. Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Mass for the Endangered is performed in NYC. Jeremy Denk plays Bach in Worcester. Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti and Frank Rosaly bring MESTIZX to Chicago. Emmylou Harris headlines LA Folk Festival. Hurray for the Riff Raff concludes tour with Bright Eyes in Kansas City and St. Louis. Nathalie Joachim performs Ki moun ou ye at University of Notre Dame. Gabriel Kahane joins Orchestre National de Lyon to perform from Book of Travelers. Kronos Quartet is in Richmond. Mandy Patinkin is in Palm Desert. Yasmin Williams tours Colorado.

"Bank On," a new song with Portraits of Tracy, from the album Song of the Earth, David Longstreth’s song cycle for orchestra and voices he performs with his band Dirty Projectors and the chamber orchestra s t a r g a z e, is out now, along with a lyric video you can watch here. "Bank On" features a vocal solo from Felicia Douglass, a Longstreth verse inspired by Songs in The Key of Life (but with harpsichord), a signature Dirty Projectors female-harmony chorus, and a thundering Mahler-esque brass fanfare.

Guitarist and composer Yasmin Williams, who continues her US headlining tour in Colorado this weekend, has announced a two-week tour of Europe in June. The tour kicks off with a set at the Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona on June 6, with shows in Paris, Utrecht, The Hague, London, Leeds, and Bristol, culminating in Copenhagen. on June 19. 

Chris Thile has announced a solo tour starting at Koerner Hall in Toronto on October 15, with stops in upstate New York, North Bethesda, New York City, and Grand Rapids, culminating at Chicago Symphony Center on October 24. This follows previously announced orchestral performances in Philadelphia, Asheville, Detroit, and Katonah; an evening with Cécile McLorin Salvant at Carnegie Hall; and events with his fellow Punch Brothers.

"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.