Composer John Adams conducts the Houston Symphony and pianist Orli Shaham at Jones Hall in Houston on Saturday and Sunday. The program includes the Houston Symphony debut of Adams’s The Rock You Stand On, which the orchestra co-commissioned, along with his piece Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes?—which can be heard 40-disc box set John Adams Collected Works from 2022—and Copland’s Suite from Appalachian Spring. Sunday’s program is available to livestream here.

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Pianist/composer Timo Andres joins nine other pianists to perform the complete Philip Glass Etudes at the University of Michigan’s Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor on Saturday.

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Pianist Jeremy Denk gives a solo recital, a benefit concert, at Kodosky Manor in Austin, tonight, performing Ives’s “Concord” Sonata—which can be heard on his album Ives Denk—along with works by Beethoven, Joplin, Gottschalk, Nina Simone, and William Bolcom. Denk stays on in Austin and is joined by violinists Blake Pouliot and Geoffrey Herd, violist Cong Wu, and cellist Bion Tsang for a sold-out performance at Assembly Hall there on Saturday.

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Rhiannon Giddens is at the Baltimore Museum of Industry tonight for Baltimore Old Time Music Revival, giving a talk and demonstration with Kristina Gaddy about their recent book Go Back and Fetch It. She performs at the sold-out Schaefer Center for the Arts in Boone, North Carolina, on Saturday, and Old Forester's Paristown Hall in Louisville, Kentucky on Sunday. Giddens's album with Justin Robinson, What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow, was released last year; you can listen to the album here. She was a guest on PBS’s Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr. last week; you can watch the episode here.

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Pianist Richard Goode performs at High School of Fashion Industries in New York City on Saturday for the People's Symphony Concerts series, of which Goode is the season’s resident artist. The program includes Schubert’s Sonata in B-flat, D. 960, which Goode recorded for Nonesuch in 1985, along with works by Beethoven. Goode’s famed ten-disc box set of the complete Beethoven sonatas is available here.

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Emmylou Harris is in California, performing a sold-out show at Luther Burbank Center for the Arts in Santa Rosa tonight and Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium on Saturday. Earlier this year, Harris, Molly Tuttle, and Alison Krauss performed "Didn’t Leave Nobody But the Baby" at the Grand Ole Opry's 25th anniversary celebration of the Coen brothers' film O Brother, Where Art Thou? and its famed T Bone Burnett–produced soundtrack at the Opry House in Nashville. You can watch it here.

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Gabriel Kahane and Roomful of Teeth perform their new album Elevator Songs at UVM Recital Hall in Burlington, Vermont, tonight and 92nd Street Y in New York City on Sunday. Kahane’s father Jeffrey’s debut album, of Bach pieces, was released on Nonesuch 40 years ago this week. Jeffrey Kahane returned to the label last fall with the release of Heirloom, featuring a concerto for piano and chamber orchestra by the same name, written for him by Gabriel Kahane, and performed with the orchestra The Knights.

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Pianist Brad Mehldau joins Gilad Hekselman Quartet at the Village Vanguard in New York City for sold-out early and late-night sets tonight, Saturday, and Sunday. Mehldau returns to the Vanguard next week for a sold-out residency with his trio—bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Marcus Gilmore. Mehldau’s Ride into the Sun—a songbook record of music by the late singer, songwriter, and guitarist Elliott Smith—was released last week and features performances by singer/guitarist Daniel Rossen of Grizzly Bear, singer/mandolinist Chris Thile, bassists Felix Moseholm and John Davis, drummer Matt Chamberlain, and a chamber orchestra led by Dan Coleman; you can get it on vinyl and CD and hear it here.

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Cécile McLorin Salvant and her band—pianist Sullivan Fortner, bassist Yasushi Nakamura, and drummer Kyle Poole—perform at the University of Georgia’s Performing Arts Center in Athens, Georgia, tonight, before heading north for a duo set with Fortner at AKG Art Museum in Buffalo, New York, on Sunday. Her latest album, Oh Snap, topped the Francis Davis Jazz Poll for Vocal Jazz Albums.

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Molly Tuttle brings music from her album So Long Little Miss Sunshine and more to The Overton Park Shell in Memphis, Tennessee, tonight for Shell Daze Music Festival, and Bluebird Nightclub in Bloomington, Indiana, on Saturday. Tuttle was on American Songwriter’s Off the Record to discuss her latest album, So Long Little Miss Sunshine, on which, says host Lisa Konicki, Tuttle "explores country, rock, and pop; all the while, she's still the amazing guitar player that we know and love."

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Guitarist Yasmin Williams tours the US Midwest, performing at SPACE in Evanston, Illinois, tonight; Stoughton Opera House in Stoughton, Wisconsin, on Saturday; and The Cedar Cultural Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Sunday. Williams, whose Nonesuch debut album, Acadia, was released in 2024, recently received the International Folk Music Awards’ Rising Tide Award.