Kronos Quartet is in Taiwan for the Traditional Arts Festival ... Laurie Anderson plays the Sydney Opera House for Vivid LIVE ... The Black Keys continue tour in Kansas City and Wakarusa ... Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica tour Russia ... Brad Mehldau solos in the UK ... Pat Metheny takes Orchestrion to Seoul ... Allen Toussaint, Don Byron play The Bright Mississippi in Vermont ... Sara Watkins guests on A Prairie Home Companion ... and more ...
Kronos Quartet is in Taipei, Taiwan, this weekend for two concerts at Zhongshan Hall tonight and Sunday. The performances are part of the Traditional Arts Festival. Tonight's program features selections from Terry Riley's The Cusp of Magic and Tan Dun's Ghost Opera, with pipa virtuoso Wu Man. On Sunday, Kronos joins the Taipei Chinese Orchestra for a program that includes Yiu-Kwong Chung's Beyond the Silk Road, music from Tan Dun's Oscar-winning score to the film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and the world premiere of a new piece by Hwang-Lung Pan. You can read all about the Quartet's adventures in Taiwan (including those of the gastronomic variety) and see photos via the group's Twitter feed at twitter.com/KronosQuartet.
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As reported earlier today in the Nonesuch Journal, Laurie Anderson's performances at Vivid LIVE, the festival she and her husband, Lou Reed, have curated in Sydney, Australia, continue through the weekend, including the multi-artist Slow Music Night, the canine-friendly Music for Dogs, and Day for Night Movies, a marathon screening set to live scores.
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The Black Keys continue the initial US leg of their months-long summer tour at The Crossroads in Kansas City, Missouri, tonight, with Brian Olive supporting. On Saturday, the band plays the Wakarusa Music Festival on Mulberry Mountain in Ozark, Arkansas. The tour kicked off earlier this week at The Depot in Salt Lake City, from which the Salt Lake Tribune reports that "dirty grooves were unleashed all night."
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Christina Courtin performs with Alan Hampton at Rockwood Music Hall in downtown New York City tonight.
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Gidon Kremer and the Kremerata Baltica continue their tour of Russia with a performance at the Regional State Philharmonic Society in Tomsk tonight.
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Brad Mehldau concludes the first of two seasons as the curator of the first-ever Jazz Series at London's Wigmore Hall with his own solo performance at the Hall tonight. (For a list of next seaons's concerts in the series, read about it in the Nonesuch Journal.) On Saturday, Mehldau heads to Leeds for a solo set at Opera North on Saturday.
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Pat Metheny kicked off the Asian leg of his Orchestrion tour earlier this week at the LG Arts Center in Seoul. Performances continue at the venue tonight and Saturday. Metheny and his one-man band head to Japan next week and will return to the States for more dates this October. Orchestrion, the tour and the Nonesuch album, was recently featured in Bloomberg.
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Allen Toussaint brings the music of his Nonesuch debut album, The Bright Mississippi, to the Flynn Center in Burlington, Vermont, on Saturday, as part of the Discover Jazz Festival. Clarinetist Don Byron, who is featured on the album, joins Toussaint and his band for the occasion. The Burlington Free Press, in a festival preview, says that even after a half-century of music-making, "Toussaint might just be at the height of his powers right now."
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Sara Watkins, who celebrates her 29th birthday on Tuesday, joins Garrison Keillor and all the folks of Lake Wobegon for a live broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion from the Santa Barbara Bowl on Saturday afternoon. (Coincidentally, Watkins spent her previous birthday with a live performance for NPR's Mountain Stage.) Watkins and the Prairie Home Companion cast and crew head out for a coast-to-coast concert tour, the Summer Love Tour, this August.
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