John Adams conducts The Cleveland Orchestra. Sérgio and Odair Assad are at Northwestern. Donnacha Dennehy’s Land of Winter is performed in Norway. Richard Goode, Mandy Patinkin perform in NYC. Gabriel Kahane is in Iowa City. Kronos Quartet performs in Georgia and Montana. Makaya McCraven is in Maryland. Ringdown perform in Somerville, MA. Cécile McLorin Salvant, Danish Radio Big Band tour Virginia and South Carolina. Davóne Tines joins New World Symphony in Miami.
Composer John Adams conducts The Cleveland Orchestra and pianist Aaron Diehl at Severance Music Center’s Mandel Concert Hall in Cleveland tonight and Saturday. The program includes Adams’s own Frenzy, as well as works by Timo Andres, Piazzolla, and Ives.
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Sérgio and Odair Assad continue their 60th Anniversary Farewell Tour at Northwestern University’s sold-out Galvin Recital Hall in Evanston, Illinois, on Saturday. Last year marked the 40th anniversary of their Nonesuch debut album, Latin American Music for Two Guitars. On the album, the brothers—"the best two-guitar team in existence, maybe even in history" (Washington Post)—perform music by Astor Piazzolla, Leo Brouwer, Hermeto Pascoal, Radamés Gnattali, Alberto Ginastera, and Sérgio himself.
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Excerpts from composer Donnacha Dennehy’s Land of Winter are performed by Arctic Philharmonic Sinfonietta, conducted by Christian Eggen, at Longyearbyen Kulturhus in Longyearbyen, Norway, tonight, as part of the Arctic Chamber Music Festival. The program includes Land of Winter’s “December,” “January,” and “February.” Earlier this month, Alarm Will Sound and conductor Alan Pierson won the GRAMMY Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance for the premiere recording of the piece, released on New Amsterdam / Nonesuch Records. Dennehy spoke with The Journal of Music in Ireland about becoming only the second Irish composer to win a GRAMMY Award, per the site; you can read the interview here.
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Pianist Richard Goode is joined by soprano Sarah Shafer and clarinetist Anthony McGill at The Town Hall in New York City on Sunday for the People's Symphony Concerts series, of which Goode is the season’s resident artist. The program includes works by Mozart, Schubert, and Brahms.
Mandy Patinkin is up the street, continuing his Being Alive tour—a collection of his favorite Broadway and classic American tunes from the likes of Irving Berlin, Stephen Sondheim, Cole Porter, Harry Chapin, and more—with pianist Adam-Ben David, at Symphony Space’s Peter Jay Sharpe Theatre in New York City on Saturday.
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Gabriel Kahane brings his Book of Travelers and Magnificent Bird to the University of Iowa’s Hancher Auditorium in Iowa City on Sunday. Book of Travelers, Kahane’s Nonesuch debut album, was composed during a train journey across the United States that began the day after the 2016 Presidential election. This gallery of portraits of strangers met in restaurant cars is also the search for a shared humanity in a divided nation. Magnificent Bird—“gorgeous, intimate collection ... glistening and magical” (San Francisco Chronicle)—chronicles a year Kahane spent entirely off-line, and the unexpected turbulence of living quietly.
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Kronos Quartet performs at Kennesaw State University’s Morgan Concert Hall in Kennesaw, Georgia, tonight and Warren Miller Performing Arts Center in Big Sky, Montana, on Sunday.
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Drummer, producer, and sonic collagist Makaya McCraven, whose new two-disc, four-EP compilation Off the Record was released last year, continues his US tour at the University of Maryland’s The Clarice in College Park on Saturday.
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Cinematic electro-pop duo Ringdown—Danni Lee Parpan and Caroline Shaw—perform at Somerville Theatre’s Crystal Ballroom in Somerville, Massachusetts, as part of Stave Sessions. Ringdown’s debut album, Lady on the Bike, was released last year; you can hear it and get it here.
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Cécile McLorin Salvant joins the Danish Radio Big Band, conducted by Miho Hazama, for two concerts in Virginia—at Virginia Tech’s Center for the Arts in Blacksburg, tonight and Attucks Theatre in Norfolk on Sunday—and at Charleston Gaillard Center in South Carolina on Saturday. Salvant’s new album, Oh Snap, was among the year’s best, per Jazzwise, Slate, JazzTimes, Guardian, and more.
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Bass-baritone Davóne Tines joins New World Symphony and conductor Kalena Bovell at the New World Center in Miami on Saturday night and Sunday afternoon for performances of Tines' Concerto No. 2: ANTHEM. The piece includes "Lift Every Voice," which Tines performs on his solo debut album, ROBESON, released on Nonesuch in 2024. The concerts are part of the I Dream a World Festival, a series of performances in Overtown and Miami Beach celebrating Black artistry.
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