Rhiannon Giddens is joined by Allison Russell in conversation in Hartford then kicks off her Carnegie Hall Perspectives series in Weill Recital Hall with Francesco Turrisi. John Adams is performed by NY Phil in David Geffen Hall and by Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. The Black Keys are in Houston. Jeremy Denk plays Brahms with Fairfax Symphony Orchestra. Gabriel Kahane joins St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. Kronos Quartet is in Oakland. Mariza sings at SFJAZZ. Makaya McCraven kicks off his tour in Vancouver. Punch Brothers play festivals in Georgia and Florida. Cécile McLorin Salvant is in France and Belgium. Vagabon is in Toronto and joins Jason Isbell at the Ryman in Nashville.
Rhiannon Giddens is joined by Allison Russell in conversation at The Bushnell in Hartford, Connecticut, tonight, the first event of the Connecticut Forum season. The evening also includes musical performances.
Giddens then heads down to New York City for the launch of her Carnegie Hall Perspectives series: a program titled When I Am Laid in Earth performed in two concerts with Francesco Turrisi in Weill Recital Hall, Saturday at 2pm and 7:30pm. The series continues with a November 4 concert in Stern Auditorium from Our Native Daughters (Giddens, Russell, Amythyst Kiah, and Leyla McCalla); another performance with Turrisi, of songs from their Grammy-winning album They’re Calling Me Home, in Zankel Hall on January 24; and a Silk Road Ensemble show in Zankel Hall on March 10.
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John Adams’s 2003 piece My Father Knew Charles Ives is on the program for the New York Philharmonic’s inaugural concerts in the revitalized David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center. The concerts, conducted by music director Jaap van Zweden, began on Wednesday and continue with performances this Saturday night and Tuesday. Nonesuch released the first recording of the piece, performed by BBC Symphony Orchestra led by the composer, in 2006.
Across North America, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and conductor Otto Tausk perform Adams’s Short Ride in a Fast Machine (1986) and Violin Concerto (1993), featuring Leila Josefowicz, at the Orpheum Theatre in Vancouver tonight and Sunday afternoon and at the Bell Performing Arts Centre on Saturday. Both pieces can be heard on Nonesuch recordings: the former performed by San Francisco Symphony on the 1987 album The Chairman Dances, the latter with Josefowicz and the St. Louis Symphony in 2018.
All of the above pieces can be heard on the forty-disc box set John Adams Collected Works released earlier this year.
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The Black Keys continue their Dropout Boogie tour at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in Houston on Saturday.
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Jeremy Denk joins the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra and conductor Christopher Zimmerman for a performance of Brahms’s Piano Concert No. 2 at Capital One Hall in Tysons, Virginia, on Saturday. Also on the program is Sibelius’s First Symphony. There will be a pre-concert conversation with Denk and Zimmerman.
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Gabriel Kahane joins the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and conductor Norman Huynh in a performance of songs from his two Nonesuch album, Magnificent Bird and Book of Travelers, at Powell Hall in St. Louis tonight. Also on the program is Copland’s Appalachian Spring Suite.
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Kronos Quartet performs two sets with two different programs at Yoshi's in Oakland, California, tonight. The 8pm set includes works by Angélique Kidjo, Bob Dylan, Nina Simone, Bryce Dessner, and more; the 10pm set are works by Jlin, Hawa Kassé Mady Diabaté, Laurie Anderson, and more.
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Portuguese singer Mariza began a four-night residency at SFJAZZ Center’s Miner Auditorium in San Francisco last night that continues each night this weekend. Tonight’s concert will be available to stream live for SFJAZZ members.
Mariza has released two albums on Nonesuch in the US: Mariza Sings Amália (2021), celebrates both the 20th anniversary of her career and the centenary of the late Queen of Fado, Amália Rodrigues; and Mundo (2016), which earned her the Songlines Award for Best Artist of the Year.
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Makaya McCraven kicks off his fall North American tour of music from his new album, In These Times, at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts in Vancouver, British Columbia, on Saturday.
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Punch Brothers continue their tour of the US South with two festival sets: at Columbia Co. Fairgrounds in Grovetown, Georgia, for Banjo-B-Que tonight, and at Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, Florida, for Suwanee Roots Revival on Saturday.
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Cécile McLorin Salvant continues her tour European tour with a concert at Le Volcan in Le Havre, France, tonight, at De Singel in Antwerp, Belgium, on Saturday.
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Vagabon performs as part of the Venus Fest on Queen Street West in Toronto on Saturday then heads back to the United States to perform at the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville as special guest of Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit.
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