Hurray for the Riff Raff (aka Alynda Segarra) continues the West Coast leg of their spring/summer tour bringing music from their latest album, The Past Is Still Alive, and more to California, with a sold-out show at the Troubadour in Los Angeles tonight, and a performance at Pappy & Harriet’s in Pioneertown on Saturday, before heading east to Arizona for a night at Crescent Ballroom in Phoenix on Sunday. You can watch the music video for their latest single, "Pyramid Scheme," here, and watch them perform the song on yesterday's episode of Office Hours Live with Tim Heidecker here.

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Composer John Adams continues to conduct the Metropolitan Opera debut of his opera Antony and Cleopatra in New York City, with a performance tonight. A recent performance was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 as part of its Opera on 3 series; you can hear it here. The production, directed by Elkhanah Pulitzer, opened earlier this month and has performances through June 7. It 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." She was announced the director of the 2026 Cincinnati May Festival this week.

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Composer and trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire and his quartet—pianist Sam Harris, bassist Harish Raghavan, and drummer Justin Brown—continue their European tour with shows at the Jassmine in Warsaw tonight and Saturday, and at Piazzetta Calderari in Pordenone, Italy, as part of the Jazzinsieme festival, on Sunday. His latest album, honey from a winter stone, was released earlier this year with vocalist Kokayi, Harris on piano, Chiquitamagic on synths, Brown on drums, and Mivos Quartet.Akinmusire won the JJA Jazz Award for Trumpeter of the Year for the second year in a row earlier this month.

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Singer Cécile McLorin Salvant performs with pianist Sullivan Fortner at a sold-out show at The Cracker Factory in Geneva, New York, on Saturday. Salvant won two JJA Jazz Awards this month: 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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Pianist Richard Goode brings an all-Beethoven program to Shriver Hall in Baltimore on Sunday, performing Six Bagatelles from Op. 119; Piano Sonata No. 30 in E major, Op. 109; and Thirty-Three Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli, Op. 120. Prior to the concert, WBJC's Jonathan Palevsky hosts a pre-concert talk. Gramophone calls Goode's famed 1993 set of the complete Beethoven sonatas “one of the finest interpretations ever put on record.” Richard Goode's recent recital of works by Haydn, Mozart, and Brahms at Wigmore Hall in London can now be heard on BBC Radio 3's In Concert here.

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Electro-pop duo Ringdown—Danni Lee Parpan and Caroline Shaw—closes out the Open Ear Festival at the Conrad Centre for the Performing Arts in Kitchener, Ontario, on Sunday. Ringdown’s debut album, Lady on the Bike, released this month, celebrates the feeling of possibility in myriad forms: the possibility of love; the possibility of creating connection and community in a world trying to pull those things apart; the possibility of making music in new ways. “Ecstatically blissful," says Night After Night’s Steve Smith. “There haven’t been too many duos like this one," says Oregon ArtsWatch’s Matthew Neil Andrews. You can hear the album and get it here.