One half of Joshua Redman’s Compass double trio performs in Chicago ... Adams's Doctor Atomic continues at ENO; New York City Ballet, Rambert Dance Company, Stadttheater Giessen Ballett perform works set to his music ... Afro-Cuban All Stars play outside LA ... Dan Auerbach kicks off US tour in DC, Boston ... David Byrne brings tour home to NYC's Radio City ... Shawn Colvin cruises the Caribbean ... Glass performs Leonard Cohen ... Richard Goode leads master class, performs in Manchester ... Glenn Kotche joins Bang on a Can All-Stars in Philly ... Mandy Patinkin plays Tampa ... Doug Varone and Dancers dance to Reich’s Daniel Variations ... Allen Toussaint concludes his Joe's Pub residency .. and more ...
Joshua Redman’s Trio, featuring bassist Reuben Rogers and drummer Greg Hutchinson, one of two featured on Redman’s recent Nonesuch release, Compass, performs at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago on Sunday. Time Out Chicago picks it as a Top Live Show of the week. “At 40, he’s far from a young lion, having transcended his early promise in spades,” writes Time Out’s Areif Sless-Kitain. “The tenor sax star’s fluid feel naturally lends itself to the textured, playful improvisations at which tonight’s well-groomed threesome excels.”
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Performances of John Adams’s opera Doctor Atomic continue at English National Opera, after its UK premiere earlier this week. The next performance is Saturday night at 6 PM.
New York City Ballet performs company director Peter Martins’ 2001 piece Hallelujah Junction, set to Adams's work of the same name. It’s part of a program titled 21st Century Movement, to be performed Saturday night, and An All American Season Finale, on Sunday afternoon. The latter also includes Glass Pieces, set to music by Philip Glass and choreographed by the late Jerome Robbins.
The Rambert Dance Company debuted American choreographer Doug Varone’s new work, Scribblings, set to Adams’s Chamber Symphony, a week ago at His Majesty's Theatre in Aberdeen, Scotland. The company performs the work tonight and tomorrow at Snape Maltings Concert Hall in Aldeburgh
Germany’s Stadttheater Giessen Ballett gives the world premiere performance of choreographer Tarek Assam’s Feiningers Fugen, set to Adams’s Violin Concerto, as well as to works by Bach and Glenn Gould.
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The Afro-Cuban All Stars continue their extensive US tour with a performance at the Cerritos Center in Cerritos, California tonight.
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As reported earlier today, Dan Auerbach kicks off his two-week US tour at the 9:30 Club in Washington, DC, Saturday night. Opening for Dan and joining him as his backing band is the San Antonio-based band Haciendo. Also opening are Those Darlins. On Sunday, the groups hit Boston’s Paradise Club.
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David Byrne brings his Songs of David Byrne and Brian Eno tour to his home turf of New York City with two concerts at Radio City Music Hall, tonight and tomorrow night.
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Shawn Colvin joins a number of fellow singer-songwriters on Cayamo, a weeklong cruise through the Caribbean. Also scheduled to perform are Lyle Lovett, John Hiatt, Patty Griffin, and many more. The ship sets sail from Miami on Saturday.
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Philip Glass performs the last of four concerts of The Book of Longing, his piece based on the poetry and images of Leonard Cohen, in Claremont, California, each day this weekend. The performances began last night and are being held at the Garrison Theater, in the shadow of Mount Baldy, home to the Zen Center where Cohen had lived for five years in the 1990s. You can read about the development of the piece in the Claremont Courier.
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After a master class at Manchester’s Royal Northern College of Music today, Richard Goode will perform at the English city’s Bridgewater Hall Saturday night. On the program are works by Bach, Mozart, and Chopin.
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Glenn Kotche joins Bang on a Can All-Stars as a special guest in their performance at the Kimmel Center’s Perelman Theater in Philadelphia Saturday night. This is their second joint performance at the Center.
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Mandy Patinkin performs in concert with longtime pianist Paul Ford at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center’s Carol Morsani Hall Saturday night.
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Doug Varone and Dancers conclude a weeklong residency at New York’s Joyce Theater this Sunday with a program that includes the New York premiere of Alchemy, set to Steve Reich’s Daniel Variations. Performances will take place Friday night and Saturday and Sunday afternoons and evenings.
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Allen Toussaint concludes his bi-weekly residency at New York’s Joe’s Pub this Sunday at noon. Next week, he begins a short, three-stop tour of California with Keys to New Orleans, also featuring Jon Cleary and Henry Butler. “New Orleans pianist-producer Allen Toussaint has got to be one of the heaviest talents that that remarkable city ever spat forth,” says LA Weekly’s Jonny Whiteside, and these concerts “should serve as mind-rendingly comprehensive display of New Orleans' most bewitching music.”
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