Bob Hurwitz, Chairman Emeritus and former President of Nonesuch Records, has been named the Aaron Copland Fellow at The New School's College of Performing Arts (CoPA), expanding upon a decade-long teaching relationship with The New School. "Expanding Bob's role at The New School through the Aaron Copland Fellowship means that more students at The College of Performing Arts will have the opportunity to learn from one of the most important music industry visionaries of our time," said Executive Dean Richard Kessler. Hurwitz will play an important role in the continuing development of CoPA's new Master's in Arts Management and Entrepreneurship.

Punch Brothers have announced a two-week tour of Europe this autumn, starting at Pumpehuset in Copenhagen on November 5. The tour includes concerts at the Barbican in London, Le Trianon in Paris, Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, and many more.

Devendra Banhart has curated a new series of workshops, titled Imaginary Universes, which open at Fondazione Prada's Accademia dei bambini in Milan this Saturday, May 5, 2018. He will personally lead the inaugural workshops scheduled for that day, titled "The Astonishing Adventures of a Celestial Archaeologist." Workshops are open to children aged four to ten on a first-come first-served basis.

Robert Plant has released a video of him and his band, the Sensational Space Shifters, performing "The May Queen," from his album Carry Fire live at the O2 Apollo in Manchester, England, last November. Watch it here. Plant and the band perform in the UK again with two festival sets next month, resume their North American tour in June, and return to Europe in July.

Lake Street Dive was on CBS This Morning: Saturday, performing a Saturday Sessions set of songs from the album Free Yourself Up, out this Friday. The band performed "Good Kisser," "I Can Change," "Shame, Shame, Shame." Watch all three performances here.

Nonesuch Records releases the first in a series of musical installments from singer Mandy Patinkin and pianist/producer Thomas Bartlett, Diary: January 27, 2018, recorded by the two musicians in Bartlett's New York studio. The ten tracks of this first Diary entry, out now, include songs by Randy Newman, Rufus Wainwright, Loudon Wainwright, Teitur, Marc Bolan (T. Rex), Stephin Merritt (The Magnetic Fields), and Marc Anthony Thompson (Chocolate Genius).

A new recording of John Adams's Grawemeyer Award–winning Violin Concerto is out now, with his frequent collaborators violinist Leila Josefowicz, conductor David Robertson, and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. The album was recorded at Powell Symphony Hall in St. Louis in 2016. The piece "mingles virtuoso show with soul," says the Boston Globe. 

Kronos Quartet hosts its fourth-annual hometown festival at SFJAZZ … Sam Amidon brings The Following Mountain to Cincinnati, Chicago … Timo Andres performs at Milton Court in London … David Byrne takes American Utopia tour to Texas, New Orleans Jazz Fest … Jeremy Denk plays solo in California … Rhiannon Giddens is in the Carolinas … Audra McDonald performs in Princeton … Chris Thile hosts Live From Here from NYC … and more …

The Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA (CAP UCLA) has announced its 2018–19 season, and among the artists performing this season, at Royce Hall or the Theatre at Ace Hotel, are Emmylou Harris, Kronos Quartet, Pat Metheny, Tigran Hamasyan, Nico Muhly, and Thomas Bartlett. Subscriptions are on sale now; individual tickets go on sale July 16.

Rostam has released a video in which he deconstructs the title track to his debut album, Half-Light. He breaks the song down part by part, instrument by instrument, vocal track by vocal track, including his own and those of featured vocalist Kelly Zutrau. See what he had to say and how the song came together in the video, directed by Alex Chaloff, here. Rostam resumes his Half-Light tour in late May.

Washington Performing Arts has announced its 2018–19 concert season, and among the performers the organization will present at various venues in the Washington, DC, area next season are Jeremy Denk (Kennedy Center Terrace Theater, January 29; Strathmore with Joshua Bell and Steven Isserlis, May 1), Kronos Quartet (Sixth & I, March 2), and Rhiannon Giddens (Sixth & I with Lara Downes, February 23).

The International Rescue Committee has named Mandy Patinkin an IRC Ambassador in recognition of his continued efforts to advocate for the welcoming of refugees around the world. He traveled with the IRC to Uganda to meet some of the more than one million South Sudanese refugees welcomed there. "Meeting with refugees from all around the world has made one thing very clear to me: all they want is a better tomorrow for their loved ones, their family, their children," says Patinkin. "This is why I am so proud of my partnership with the IRC—an organization tirelessly working to support the world's most vulnerable and give them a chance to survive and thrive despite the worst of circumstances."