This first weekend of spring, David Longstreth hosts three listening parties and performances of music from his upcoming album, Song of the Earth—recorded with his band Dirty Projectors and the Berlin-based chamber orchestra s t a r g a z e, out April 4—at Public Records in Brooklyn with a sold-out shows tonight and Saturday and an added set Saturday afternoon. A new song from the album, “Bank On,” was released on Wednesday along with a lyric video you can watch here. Longstreth stopped by the Nonesuch office for the Nonesuch Selects video series to share some of his favorite albums from the music library. He chose recordings by David Byrne, Jonny Greenwood, Bulgarian State Television Female Choir, Caetano Veloso, Tyondai Braxton, Scritti Politti, and João Gilberto, and from the Nonesuch Explorer Series. You can watch it here.

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Also in New York City this weekend, Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Mass for the Endangered is performed by The Stonewall Chorale at the Church of the Holy Apostles in Manhattan on Saturday. The piece is a celebration of, and an elegy for, the natural world—animals, plants, insects, the planet itself—an appeal for greater awareness, urgency, and action. Its first recording, featuring the English vocal ensemble Gallicantus conducted by Gabriel Crouch, was released on New Amsterdam / Nonesuch Records in 2020. You can listen to her talk about it on Resounding Verse here and watch videos for each movement of the piece here.

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Pianist Jeremy Denk performs Bach’s complete Keyboard Partitas to kick off a celebration of the composer’s birth at Mechanics Hall in Worcester, Massachusetts, tonight. You can hear his 2013 recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations here and his latest album, Ives Denk, here.

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IIbelisse Guardia Ferragutti and Frank Rosaly, who kicked off their US debut tour in Wisconsin last night, bring music from MESTIZX, their debut full-length album as co-composers, arrangers, and musicians, to Sleeping Village in Chicago on Saturday, joined by bassist Matt Lux, keyboardist Ben Boye, woodwind player Rob Frye, and Ben LaMar Gay on the cornet and other instruments. You can listen to the new remix of the album track “BALADA PARA LA CORPORATOCRACIA” by Andy Moore here.

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Emmylou Harris headlines the Los Angeles Folk Festival at The Bellwether on Saturday. Folks can now bid on photographs of Harris taken by Jay Blakesberg and signed by both in an auction to benefit Sweet Relief Musicians Fund efforts to help musicians affected by the LA fires; you can find it here. Harris’s groundbreaking 1995 album Wrecking Ball will be inducted into the GRAMMY Hall of Fame at a special GRAMMY Museum and Recording Academy gala in May.

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Hurray for the Riff Raff (aka Alynda Segarra) concludes their tour as special guest of Bright Eyes with two shows in Missouri: at The Uptown in Kansas City tonight and The Pageant in St. Louis on Saturday. You can watch the music video for their latest single, "Pyramid Scheme," here.

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Haitian American singer and composer Nathalie Joachim continues her spring tour with music from her album Ki moun ou ye at Notre Dame’s DeBartolo Performing Arts Center in Indiana on Sunday. Ki moun ou ye takes listeners through an intimate collection of music that ponders its title’s question: “Who are you?” Inspired by the remote Caribbean farmland that her family continues to call home after seven generations and performed in both English and Haitian Creole, the work examines the richness of one’s voice—an instrument that brings with it DNA, ancestry, and identity—in a vibrant tapestry of Joachim’s voice, and intricately sampled vocal textures underscored by an acoustic instrumental ensemble.

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Gabriel Kahane joins the Orchestre National de Lyon conducted by André de Ridder at Auditorium de Lyon tonight for the French premiere of his Pattern of the Rail, featuring orchestral versions of six songs from his album Book of Travelers. 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. Also on the program, titled American Way, are Bryce Dessner’s Violin Concerto, performed with violinist Pekka Kussisto, and music from West Side Story.

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Kronos Quartet performs works for the group by and its Fifty for the Future commissioning program by Indonesian gamelan vocalist Peni Candra Rini, who joins as a special guest, at the University of Richmond’s Modlin Center in Virginia tonight.

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Mandy Patinkin continues 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 the McCallum Theater in Palm Desert, California, tonight.

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Guitarist/composer Yasmin Williams, who just announced a European tour, begins the Western leg of her US tour in support of her new album, Acadia with three shows in Colorado: Tuft Theatre at Denver tonight, Black Sheep in Colorado Springs on Saturday, and The Armory in Fort Collins on Sunday. The Washington Post calls her new album “sumptuous” and describes her music style as “highly inventive, largely unorthodox, and totally alive.” You can watch her recent NPR Tiny Desk Concert here.