Brad Mehldau Trio performs at Denver's Newman Center for the Performing Arts with an opening performance from Timothy Andres ... The Black Keys continue their North American arena tour in Calgary and Edmonton ... Laurie Anderson's first-ever NYC painting exhibition opens ... Carolina Chocolate Drops are in Richmond ... Shawn Colvin closes out duo tour with Mary Chapin Carpenter in Washington ... Einstein on the Beach concludes UK run at the Barbican ... Emmylou Harris performs at the Ryman ... Kronos Quartet showcases Women’s Voices in San Francisco ... k.d. lang takes tour to Milwaukee and Chicago ... and more ...
The Brad Mehldau Trio, featuring bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jeff Ballard, makes a rare appearance in Denver, Colorado, tonight for concert at the Newman Center for the Performing Arts that will be made all the more special by an opening piano performance by label mate Timothy Andres. The concert will be preceded by a free Behind the Curtain lecture about the show.
The Trio's US tour continues with a concerts at the Outpost Performance Space in Albuquerque on Saturday and two sets at the MIM Music Theatre in Phoenix on Sunday.
Andres will give a solo recital at (Le) Poisson Rouge in New York City later this month and is set to make his London debut with a performance at Wigmore Hall (whose first-ever jazz series was curated by Mehldau during the previous two seasons). Both concerts include works by Andres, Ted Hearne, Brahms, Schumann, and Ingram Marshall, who celebrated his 70th birthday yesterday.
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John Adams's opera The Death of Klinghoffer will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3's Opera on 3 tomorrow afternoon at 6 PM GMT. Tune in then to hear the English National Opera's long-awaited London premiere from this past February.
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The Black Keys continue their North American arena tour with special guests Arctic Monkeys, heading up to Canada this weekend to play at Scotiabank Saddledome in Calgary tonight and Rexall Place in Edmonton on Saturday.
The Black Keys have been tearing up the West Coast all week. The Vancouver Sun's François Marchand, reviewing Wednesday night's show at Rogers Arena, describes their new album, El Camino, as a "no-holds-barred pop-rock monster," and says "the Keys left no doubt in anyone's mind that they were arena-worthy headliners." Their songs, Marchand reports, "were a mix of swampy swagger, blues-rock fuzz and '60s pop vibes, the kind of stuff that's just tailor-made for hip-shaking and floor-stomping."
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As noted in yesterday's Nonesuch Journal, this weekend marks the opening of Laurie Anderson's first-ever exhibition of paintings in New York. Boat will be presented by Vito Schnabel starting this Saturday, with an opening reception tonight. On display will be a new series of paintings that bring the scale of the theater onto the canvas. The show also includes a video installation, From the Air, and a series of drawings titled Lolabelle in the Bardo.
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Carolina Chocolate Drops perform at Brown’s Island in Richmond, Virginia, tonight for the Friday Cheers summer concert series. The Inflatables start the night off. The music video for "Country Girl," off the Chocolate Drops' latest album, Leaving Eden, premiered earlier this week on CMT.com and was one of the five most-watched music videos on the site for the week. You can watch the video on CMT.com, YouTube, and nonesuch.com/media.
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Shawn Colvin and Mary Chapin Carpenter close out their set of duo tour dates with two performances in Washington State this weekend: at the Edmonds Center for the Arts in Edmonds tonight and at the Broadway Center for the Performing Arts’ Pantages Theatre in Tacoma on Saturday.
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Philip Glass and Robert Wilson’s Einstein on the Beach concludes its week-long UK premiere at the Barbican Theatre in London with performances tonight through Sunday. The international tour of Einstein on the Beach will next head to Toronto's Luminato festival in June. The Evening Standard gives the production a perfect five stars. The Independent gives it four stars, saying the creators' "needle-sharp super-reality is mesmerising."
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Emmylou Harris performs at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee, tonight for Something to Smile About, a benefit for the Interfaith Dental Clinic.
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As noted earlier today in the Nonesuch Journal, Kronos Quartet performs at the YBCA's Novellus Theater in San Francisco tonight and Saturday with a program titled Women’s Voices, which showcases the work of various women composers and performers. The program includes the world premiere of a new work written and performed by Vân-Ánh Võ titled All Clear and the Bay Area premieres of Laurie Anderson’s Flow, Nicole Lizée’s Death to Kosmische, and Derek Charke’s Tundra Songs featuring Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq.
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k.d. lang and the Siss Boom Bang continue their North American tour, which they kicked off earlier this week, with a show at the Northern Lights Theater in Milwaukee tonight, joined by special guest Jane Siberry. lang and the band then head to Chicago to perform at the Harris Theater for Center on Halsted’s 2012 Human First gala on Saturday, hosted by Bravo’s Andy Cohen of Watch What Happens Live. Welcoming 1,500 guests each year, Human First has become Chicago’s largest LGBT-focused gala.
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