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  • Friday, September 6, 2024

    Yasmin Williams performs at the Kennedy Center and Evanston Folk Fest. LA Phil & Gustavo Dudamel perform John Adams at Hollywood Bowl. Jeremy Denk marks Ives's 150th at the Lammermuir Fest in Scotland. The Magnetic Fields perform 69 Love Songs in Vienna. Brad Mehldau is at Jazz à La Villette in Paris. Cécile McLorin Salvant is in Buenos Aires. Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway tour the Carolinas.

  • Friday, September 6, 2024

    "Sarah Kirkland Snider is, quite simply, one of my favorite living composers," Stephen Rodgers, host of Resounding Verse, says on the latest episode of the podcast about poetry and song. "I love her vocal works. She has a great sense for the human voice, she sets text beautifully." "Alleluia," the third movement of Mass for the Endangered, composed by Snider with a libretto by poet/writer Nathaniel Bellows, is the subject of the episode. You can hear the episode here.

  • Thursday, September 5, 2024

    Chris Thile and Hurray for the Riff Raff each performed on the Aspen Ideas Festival campus for NPR's Field Recordings series of shows filmed "off the beaten path." Thile was in Anderson Park to perform Bach with students from the Aspen Music School and two solo pieces from his album Laysongs. Hurray for the Riff Raff was joined by guitarist Johnny Wilson in a meadow beneath the Elk Mountains to perform five songs from the new album The Past Is Still Alive—"one of our favorites of the year," says NPR's Suraya Mohamed. You can watch both here.

Artist Spotlight

  • On DAVÓNE TINES & THE TRUTH’s new work ROBESON, Tines’ solo recording debut, the musician grapples with the legacy of a hero. Exploding the musical repertoire of Paul Robeson, Tines and his band the Truth—pianist John Bitoy and sound artist Khari Lucas—take listeners on a trip from the stage of Carnegie Hall to the floor of a Moscow hotel room in an attempt to understand an icon not through aspiring to his monumentality, but through connecting to his vulnerability. “Like his…

  • Composer/guitarist Yasmin Williams' Nonesuch debut album, Acadia, her most sonically expansive work to date, is nine original, mostly instrumental tracks written and produced by Williams, and features her on various guitars, banjo, calabash drum, tap shoes, and kora. She is joined by an eclectic cast of collaborators—including Immanuel Wilkins on saxophone, Dom Flemons on rhythm bones, Aoife O’Donovan on vocals, William Tyler on guitar, and others—creating a folk music that reflects…

  • Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway's six-song EP Into the Wild, a follow-up to their Grammy-winning and critically acclaimed 2023 album, City of Gold, includes three new songs—including the title track, available now—as well as previously released covers of Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit” and Olivia Rodrigo’s “good 4 u,” and an alternate version of the City of Gold track “Stranger Things.”

  • The original score for Ken Burns’s two-part documentary LEONARDO da VINCI, with new compositions by Caroline Shaw, features performances by the composer’s longtime collaborators Attacca Quartet, Sō Percussion, and Roomful of Teeth as well as John Patitucci. Shaw wrote and recorded new music for LEONARDO da VINCI, marking the first time a Ken Burns film has featured an entirely original score. The film is directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon, who says: “…

  • Laurie Anderson’s Amelia is the 2024 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award recipient's first new album since 2018’s Grammy-winning Landfall. The record comprises twenty-two tracks about renowned female aviator Amelia Earhart’s tragic last flight. Anderson, who Pitchfork says, “sees the future, but she starts by paying attention,” wrote the music and lyrics. On the album, she is joined by Filharmonie Brno, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies, and Anohni, Gabriel Cabezas…

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Fri, Sep 6
9:00 PM
Kennedy Center Concert Hall
Washington, DCUnited States
DECLASSIFIED: Ben Folds Presents w/Rob Thomas, Madison Cunningham
Fri, Sep 6
Kennedy Center Concert Hall
Washington, DCUnited States
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Sat, Sep 7
6:00 PM
Cité de la Musique
ParisFrance
Jazz à La Villette 2024;w/Felix Moseholm and Jorge Rossy
Sat, Sep 7
Cité de la Musique
ParisFrance
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Sat, Sep 7
7:00 PM
The Refinery
Charleston, SCUnited States
Sat, Sep 7
The Refinery
Charleston, SCUnited States
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Sat, Sep 7
7:30 PM
Dunbar Parish Church
DunbarUnited Kingdom
Lammermuir Festival
Sat, Sep 7
Dunbar Parish Church
DunbarUnited Kingdom