Timo Andres performs Steve Reich in Miami … John Adams’s Nixon in China returns to Houston Grand Opera … Devendra Banhart tours California … Teresa Cristina is in Brazil … Audra McDonald performs out West … Pat Metheny continues quartet tour in Southeast US … Conor Oberst plays Paris, Utrecht … Joshua Redman joins Umphrey's McGee for three shows in Northeast US … and more …

Devendra Banhart launches a two-month North American tour, featuring music from his 2016 album, Ape in Pink Marble, at The Showbox in Seattle tonight. The tour continues with stops in Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Boulder, Santa Fe, Austin, Atlanta, Miami, Minneapolis, Chicago, Detroit, Toronto, Montreal, Boston, Philadelphia, DC, New York City, and more. The European tour begins in April.

Celebrations of John Adams's 70th birthday, which began in fall 2016, continue through 2017 with major festivities taking place in the composer's native California, organized around his birthday on February 15, and throughout the winter and spring in New York, Chicago, London, Berlin, Amsterdam, and more.

This inauguration weekend, John Adams’s Nixon in China returns to Houston Grand Opera … Jeremy Denk brings Medieval to Modern to Philadelphia … Emmylou Harris, John Prine play Bonaparte’s Retreat benefit in Nashville … Brad Melhdau concludes solo European run … Pat Metheny continues quartet tour in Northeast US … Conor Oberst plays Switzerland, Germany … Joshua Redman leads SFJAZZ tribute shows … Chris Thile hosts A Prairie Home Companion in California … Caetano Veloso, Teresa Cristina perform in Brazil … 

Conor Oberst begins a non-stop, three-week tour of Europe and the UK, featuring music from his 2016 solo album, Ruminations, in Munich tonight. From there, the tour heads to Stuttgart, Vienna, Zurich, Cologne, Oslo, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Berlin, Paris, Utrecht, Brussels, London, Manchester, and Edinburgh, culminating with a concert at Grand Canal Theatre in Dublin on February 5.

The Barbican Centre in London has announced its 2017–18 Classic Music concert season, in which pianist Jeremy Denk will be Artist in Residence at Milton Court Concert Hall. As such, Denk will lead four concerts throughout the season, with programs ranging from Mozart to Gershwin, from a collaboration with the Britten Sinfonia to a personal meditation on the Variation form. "Jeremy Denk isn't like other pianists," says the Barbican. "He's capable of spectacular musical gymnastics and the most eloquent insights—often in the same breath. In short ... he’s the ideal choice to be Milton Court’s Artist in Residence this season."

This long weekend, Brad Mehldau brings Three Pieces After Bach to Europe … Laurie Anderson joins PEN America event in NYC .. Teresa Cristina performs in Rio de Janeiro … Jeremy Denk joins National Symphony Orchestra at Kennedy Center … Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell play Earl Scruggs tribute show … Kronos Quartet is in San Francisco … Lake Street Dive plays Sydney Fest, Blue Note Tokyo … Pat Metheny launches quartet tour in New England … Chris Thile hosts A Prairie Home Companion in Chicago … and more …

Lake Street Dive brings Side Pony to the Southern Hemisphere, touring Australia … Jeremy Denk performs Beethoven with North Carolina Symphony in Raleigh … Chris Thile hosts A Prairie Home Companion from Seattle … and more …

Emmylou Harris joins Rufus & Martha Wainwright in presenting Nashville Noel Nights at the Ryman … John Adams’s El Niño is performed by LA Philharmonic … Devendra Banhart plays Standing Rock benefit in LA … Shye Ben Tzur, Rajasthan Express perform Junun in Thailand ...

John Adams leads London Symphony Orchestra in Scheherazade.2 and El Niño in Paris ... Timo Andres performs Adams's Grand Pianola Music at Rutgers ... Jeremy Denk gives solo recital at Duke ... The Mark Morris Dance Group performs The Hard Nut at BAM ... Conor Oberst concludes fall tour in Los Angeles ... Steve Reich’s Drumming performed in Brooklyn ... Chris Thile hosts A Prairie Home Companion in NYC; Thile and Brad Mehldau are on CBS This Morning Saturday ... and more ...

The Magnetic Fields bring 50 Song Memoir to Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) … John Adams conducts LSO in El Niño at Barbican … Devendra Banhart is in Mexico … Teresa Cristina performs in Rio de Janeiro … Jeremy Denk joins Pacific Symphony for Brahms in California ... Emmylou Harris leads benefit concert in DC … Kronos Quartet is in Berkeley … Teitur tours Argentina … Chris Thile hosts A Prairie Home Companion in NYC … Rokia Traoré tours France ... and more ...

John Adams will conduct the London Symphony Orchestra in several performances in London and France over the coming week, starting with his Nativity Oratorio, El Niño, at the Barbican in London this Sunday, December 4, and his Scheherazade.2 with violinist Leila Josefowicz there next Thursday. They then head to France to perform Scheherazade.2 at the Opéra de Dijon and the Philharmonie de Paris, and Adams and the LSO perform El Niño, at the Philharmonie.