Mary Halvorson and her Amaryllis sextet conclude their About Ghosts US tour in Delaware, Philadelphia, and Brooklyn, where Yasmin Williams performs too. Davóne Tines is across the river in Manhattan. Jeremy Denk is north of the City in Sleepy Hollow. John Adams is performed by BSO in Boston. Kronos Quartet is in Strasbourg, France. Jeff Parker joins Jenny Scheinman in Pasadena. Molly Tuttle plays festivals in Kentucky, New Jersey, and Maryland.
Guitarist Mary Halvorson and her improvisatory sextet Amaryllis—Patricia Brennan (vibraphone), Nick Dunston (bass), Tomas Fujiwara (drums), Jacob Garchik (trombone), and Adam O’Farrill (trumpet)—conclude their About Ghosts US tour this weekend with three shows on the East Coast: at Arden Gild Hall in Arden, Delaware, tonight; the sold-out Solar Myth in Philadelphia on Saturday; and, finally, at Roulette in Brooklyn on Sunday. About Ghosts, released earlier this year, "conjures such vibrant, picturesque riffs, capricious melodic excursions, and suspenseful rhythmic undertows," DownBeat says in its four-star review, "a marvelous document for Halvorson’s compositional acumen and conceptual ingenuity.” The magazine's Critics Poll named Halvorson Guitarist of the Year and Amaryllis Group of the Year.
Also in Brooklyn, guitarist/composer Yasmin Williams brings music from her latest album Acadia and more to National Sawdust on Saturday. The Washington Post calls Acadia “sumptuous” and describes her music style as “highly inventive, largely unorthodox, and totally alive.”
Across the river in Manhattan, bass-baritone Davóne Tines and choreographer Lil Buck present the second of two nights of the New York premiere of Resurrection at New York City Center tonight as part of the Fall for Dance Festival.
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Just north of the City, pianist Jeremy Denk joins the Isidore Quartet performing at Sleepy Hollow High School Auditorium in Sleepy Hollow, New York, on Saturday afternoon. The program includes works by Beethoven and Brahms.
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Composer John Adams’s Short Ride in a Fast Machine is performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Andris Nelsons, at Symphony Hall in Boston, tonight, as part of the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Opening Gala. Also on the program are works by Barber, John Williams, and Gershwin. San Francisco Symphony’s 1986 recording of Short Ride in a Fast Machine, from the album The Chairman Dances, can also be heard on John Adams Collected Works, a forty-disc box set released in 2022 with recordings spanning more than four decades of the composer’s career with Nonesuch.
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Kronos Quartet is in Strasbourg, France, at Musica Festival Strasbourg, performing Benedicte Maurseth and Kristine Tjøgersen’s Elja at Church of St. Paul on Saturday and Steve Reich’s Different Trains and works by Terry Riley, Nina Simone, Neil Young, and more at the National Rhine Opera House on Sunday.
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Guitarist/composer Jeff Parker joins composer/violinist Jenny Scheinman and her Field Notes for two nights at Healing Forces of the Universe in Pasadena, California, on Sunday and Monday. The ensemble also includes pianist Miro Sprague, bassist Karl McComas-Reichl, and drummer Mark Ferber. It was announced last week that Parker and his Tortoise bandmates’ new album, Touch, will be released on October 24; you can watch a video for the lead single, "Layered Presence," here.
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Molly Tuttle, whose new album, So Long Little Miss Sunshine, was released last month, has a festival-filled weekend, playing at Boyd County Fairgrounds in Ashland, Kentucky, tonight for Healing Appalachia; Camden Waterfront in Camden, New Jersey, on Saturday for XPoNential Music Festival; and Sandy Point State Park in Annapolis, Maryland, on Sunday for Annapolis Baygrass Music Festival. "Molly Tuttle is one of the best young guitarists in the business,” says NPR’s Stephen Thompson, including So Long Little Miss Sunshine on the All Songs Considered Best New Albums episode. “This thing is magical. It is so good.” Watch the new live performance video for “Everything Burns” here.
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