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.

Devendra Banhart, who has announced several US tour dates for early 2017, now announces several shows in Europe and the UK to follow. The tour begins at Auditorium di Milano on April 3, followed by concerts in Munich, Berlin, Brussels, Rotterdam, and Paris, culminating at Hackney Empire in London on April 12. Tickets for the London show go on sale November 30; the remaining shows go on sale Friday, December 2.

Devendra Banhart has added 21 additional shows to follow his recently announced tour of the US West in early 2017. The new leg of begins in New Mexico on February 12 and continues into mid-March, with stops in Austin, Atlanta, Miami, Minneapolis, Chicago, Cambridge, Philadelphia, DC, and more, culminating at Webster Hall in NYC on March 16. Tickets for the newly announced shows go on sale this Friday, December 2.

The Magnetic Fields premiere 50 Song Memoir at MASS MoCA … John Adams is performed by Saint Louis Symphony, Baltimore Symphony … Rhiannon Giddens, Dirk Powell tour California … Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell's Americana Music Awards performance airs on PBS … Kronos Quartet plays Bologna Jazz Fest … Lake Street Dive concludes tour of UK, Ireland … Chris Thile hosts A Prairie Home Companion with The Staves as guests … and more …

Lake Street Dive, currently touring the UK and Ireland before heading to Australia, New Zealand, and Japan, has announced a two-month US tour beginning in February 2017. The tour will include stops at the band members' alma mater, The New England Conservatory in Boston, for the school's 150th anniversary; Meyerhoff Symphony Hall with The Baltimore Symphony; The Fox Theatre in Oakland; and at the Ace Hotel in LA. Fan pre-sale begins Wednesday, November 16; general on-sale begins on Friday, November 18.

Devendra Banhart will perform songs from his new album, Ape in Pink Marble, on tour in the western United States in early 2017. The concerts begin at The Showbox in Seattle on January 23 and include stops in Portland, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Ana, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Boulder, and Telluride. Tickets go on sale this Friday, November 18.

William Kentridge's "superb staging" of Lulu is performed by English National Opera … Jeremy Denk gives recital in Chicago … Rhiannon Giddens plays Highlands Fest in North Carolina … Junun tour concludes in Europe … Kronos Quartet performs Steve Reich in Paris … Lake Street Dive is in UK … Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau round out European tour … Chris Thile hosts A Prairie Home Companion in Philadelphia … Caetano Veloso, Teresa Cristina return to Rio … and more …