Emmylou Harris kicks off her European Farewell tour in Glasgow and Dublin. John Adams leads the New World Symphony and pianist Víkingur Ólafsson in an all-Adams program in Miami. Julia Bullock sings in Chicago. Brad Mehldau sells out Smoke Jazz Club in NYC. Chris Thile brings Bach to Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.
Emmylou Harris kicks off her European Farewell tour at the Emirates Arena in Glasgow tonight for Celtic Connections, with special guest Jim Lauderdale, and 3Arena in Dublin on Sunday. The tour continues in May with more stops through the year in the UK, the Netherlands, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Belgium, and Germany. Harris spoke with the Guardian's Fiona Sturges about her career in music and why she won't be winding it down anytime soon. "I don’t really know what winding down is,” Harris says. “I think when you’re an artist, you don’t ever really retire. As I tell my friends, I don’t know what I’m doing, but I sure am doing a lot of it.”
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Composer John Adams conducts the New World Symphony and pianist Víkingur Ólafsson in an all-Adams program at New World Center’s Michael Tilson Thomas Performance Hall in Miami, Saturday and Sunday. The program includes The Chairman Dances, After the Fall, I Still Dance, and Doctor Atomic Symphony. Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, Adams’s City Noir is performed by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by John Storgårds, at The Bridgewater Hall in Manchester on Saturday. Yesterday marked the 40th anniversary of the release of Adams’s Nonesuch debut album, Harmonielehre. The album opens 2022’s John Adams Collected Works, a forty-disc box set with recordings spanning four decades of the composer’s career with the label.
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Classical singer Julia Bullock joins cellist Seth Parker Woods and pianist Conor Hanick for a performance at Logan Center for the Arts in Chicago on Sunday. The program includes the world premiere of Tania Léon’s New Work, works by Nina Simone, George Walker, Ravel, Gershwin, and more.
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Pianist Brad Mehldau is joined by bassist Alex Claffy and drummer Marcus Gilmore for eight sold-out shows at Smoke Jazz Club in New York City this weekend, with three performances on Friday and Saturday, and two shows on Sunday. Mehldau’s Ride into the Sun—a songbook record of music by the late singer, songwriter, and guitarist Elliott Smith—was released last year, and is nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Jazz Album. The album also made many year-end lists, including PopMatters, Jazzwise, Mojo, and more.
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Chris Thile resumed his US tour this week, bringing music from his new album, Bach: Sonatas and Partitas, Vol. 2, and more, to Englert Theatre in Iowa City tonight, Historic Temple Theatre in Viroqua, Wisconsin, on Saturday, and Pantages Theatre in Minneapolis on Sunday. Gramophone names the new Bach album an Editor's Choice, calling it "an album of real beauty, emerging as if through the mist—the mandolin proceeds to bring to this familiar music a vivid and highly personal sense of both mystery and joy." It made the year-end lists of Gramophone, Boston Globe, WRTI, and more.
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