Carolina Chocolate Drops continue their US tour through the weekend, featuring songs from their new album, Leaving Eden, released this week on Nonesuch. The group performs at Pace University's Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts in New York City. The band heads next to Massachusetts for shows at Boston’s Berklee College of Music on Saturday and the Narrows Center for the Arts in Fall River for a sold-out show on Sunday.

The Boston Globe, recommending Saturday's set as one of this month's "must-go" shows, says "their music is as purely human as anything that's come out in the digital age."

While in New York, the band stopped by the studios of NPR member station WNYC as guests on Soundcheck to talk with host John Schaefer and perform a couple of songs of the new album. The show airs again 10 PM on 93.9 FM in New York and will be available online at wnyc.org.

"In Dom Flemons and Rhiannon Giddens, the Carolina Chocolate Drops have two of the most charismatic performers in any genre," says Paste magazine, and on the new album, the band plays "with a new confidence and an expanded repertoire." Rolling Stone gives Leaving Eden four stars, stating that the album “grows handsome fruit from a nation’s tangled roots.”

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Performances of John Adams's opera The Death of Klinghoffer continue at the English National Opera. The new production, directed by Tom Morris, opened last weekend to rave reviews. The Times of London gives the production four stars, calling it
"absorbing and provocative." The Guardian, also in a four-star review, calls it "a major
achievement." The Financial Times calls the piece "Adams at his best."

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Laurie Anderson performs Delusion at the National Concert Hall in Taipei, Taiwan, on Saturday. She will give the last two performances of the piece in New York next weekend at Pace University's Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts.

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Björk performs again at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City tonight, the penultimate concert in a ten-show New York residency featuring the music of her new album, Biophilia. " The experience," raves the New York Times, "is nothing short of glorious." Björk and the Biophilia project are the subject of an extensive feature article in this week's New York magazine, available at nymag.com.

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As noted earlier today in the Nonesuch Journal, The Black Keys kick off their US tour tonight, playing through the weekend with special guests Arctic Monkeys. They start off in their home state of Ohio with a show at the U.S. Bank Arena in Cincinnati, Ohio, tonight, then go to play at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan, on Saturday. On Sunday, they return to Ohio for a show at the Schottenstein Center in Columbus.

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Richard Goode offers a free master class at the State University of New York at Buffalo this afternoon, prior to his evening concert at the school's Lippes Concert Hall tonight, featuring works by Schumann, Brahms, Chopin. Goode performs a similar program Sunday afternoon at the Chicago Symphony Center and will be available in the first floor of the Rotunda to sign copies of his recordings following the recital.

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Kronos Quartet joins the Toronto Symphony Orchestra for a concert at the Roy Thomson Hall Saturday night. For the first half of the program, Kronos and the orchestra perform the world premiere of Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra, written for Kronos by Canadian composer Derek Charke. Kronos then hands the stage over to the TSO for the performance of a piece by Jörg Widmann and a piece by Peter Eötvös.

Earlier this week, Kronos performed at Carnegie Hall, joined by the group's former cellist, Joan Jeanrenaud, for a performance of Vladimir Martynov's Schubert-Quintet (Unfinished), featured on their latest album release, Music of Vladimir Martynov. "Part of the kick of a Kronos Quartet concert is that you never know quite what you’re going to get," enthuses New York Times music critic Allan Kozinn in his review of the concert. "Even if you have read the program notes in advance, and listened to some of the music, something you did not count on is likely to happen."

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The Brad Mehldau Trio, featuring bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jeff Ballard, continues its tour through Europe, performing at Kinow Kijow in Poland tonight, followed by two days in Sweden, playing at Ystads Teater in Ystad on Saturday and at Stenhammarsalen in Göteborg on Sunday. The Trio's new album, Ode, is due out later this month and is available for pre-order now in the Nonesuch Store with an instant download of the title track.

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Pat Metheny and his Trio, featuring Ben Williams on bass and Jamire Williams on drums, is in Jakarta this weekend for performances at the Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival on Saturday and Sunday.

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Randy Newman continues his tour through Europe, playing at Vicar Street in Dublin, Ireland, tonight and in at the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, Germany, on Sunday.

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Punch Brothers continue their North American tour, featuring music from their recently released Nonesuch album, Who's Feeling Young Now?, playing at the Varsity Theater in Minneapolis tonight and at Liberty Hall in Lawrence, Kansas, on Saturday. They are joined on this leg of the tour by special guest Aoife O’Donovan.

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Allen Toussaint performs at The Town Hall in New York City on Saturday as a special guest of the David Bromberg Big Band.

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Dawn Upshaw joins the Cleveland Orchestra tonight and Saturday for two performances at the Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami, Florida. Upshaw will give the Miami premiere of Argentine composer Osvaldo Goljiov’s Three Songs for Soprano and Orchestra. The program also includes Verdi’s Triumphal March and Ballet Music from the opera Aïda and Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5.