Ringdown—Danni Lee Parpan and Caroline Shaw—performs for the Whitney Museum's Free Friday Nights in NYC, where John Adams's Antony and Cleopatra concludes its Met Opera debut with Julia Bullock. Ambrose Akinmusire performs his new album, honey from a winter stone, at the Spoleto Festival in Charleston. Cécile McLorin Salvant joins Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Molly Tuttle plays in Vail.
Ringdown—the cinematic electro-pop duo of Danni Lee Parpan and Caroline Shaw—performs music from its recently released debut album, Lady on the Bike, at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, in partnership with Public Records, tonight. The “ecstatically blissful” (Night After Night) and “irresistible” (Feast of Music) duo performs as part of the museum’s Free Friday Nights series, in which admission is free of charge from 5pm to 10pm. Ringdown is joined by mmeadows.
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Composer John Adams conducts the final performance of the Metropolitan Opera debut production of his opera Antony and Cleopatra in New York City tonight. It is the fifth of his works to be presented by the Met. A recent performance can be heard on BBC Radio 3’s Opera on 3. The production stars Gerald Finley and Julia Bullock, who can be heard performing on the 2024 first recording of Adams’s opera Girls of the Golden West and on her own 2022 GRAMMY-winning debut solo album, Walking in the Dark. Bullock is also one of nine artists on ELLE's list of 'The Creatives Shaping Culture in 2025.’ "In 2025, these are the must-know voices shaping culture and the performing arts," says ELLE. "Their talent is that of legends; they are true connoisseurs of their craft."
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Composer and trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire continues his four-program residency for the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina, with a show at the College of Charleston's Scotile Theatre tonight and at the Circular Congregational Church on Saturday. Tonight, he performs music from his latest album, honey from a winter’s stone, with pianist Sam Harris, bassist Reggie Washington, drummer Justin Brown, vocalist Koyaki, and chamber group PUBLIQartet, before a solo concert on Saturday. Akinmusire recently won the JJA Jazz Award for Trumpeter of the Yearfor the second year in a row.
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Vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant performs with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in the Detroit Orchestra Hall tonight, marking her debut in the Paradise Jazz Series. Earlier this month, Salvant won the JJA Jazz Award for Female Vocalist of the Year—which she won last year—and Duo of the Year, which she won with Fortner. She is currently up for the Deutscher Jazzpreis for Live Act of the Year International.
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Molly Tuttle joins The California Honeydrops for a double bill, with support from trio Band of Gringos, at the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater in Vail, Colorado, tonight, as part of the Mountains of Music Concert Series. Tuttle announced a seventy-plus date US summer-fall tour and her new album So Long Little Miss Sunshine—due August 15 on Nonesuch Records—this week. You can hear the album’s first single, “That’s Gonna Leave a Mark,” here.
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