Kronos Quartet celebrates this week's 75th birthday of Steve Reich with a performance at Hertz Hall at the University of California, Berkeley, on Sunday. The all-Reich program features the Bay Area premiere of WTC 9/11, which Kronos performs on Reich's latest album, and also includes the two other string quartets the composer has written for the group: Different Trains (1988) and Triple Quartet (1998), along with selections from The Cave, Reich's 1993 collaboration with video artist Beryl Korot.

Reich himself will perform in a celebration of his music at the Cité de la Musique in Paris on Tuesday, when he joins the Ensemble Modern and Synergy Vocals for an all-Reich concert featuring the French premiere of his Pulitzer Prize-winning piece Double Sextet, along with Drumming (Part 1) and Music for 18 Musicians.

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Laurie Anderson follows her three-night run in Montreal with a one-night-only performance at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City, Missouri, launching the hall's Vanguard Series on Sunday. She performs Transitory Life, the solo retrospective performance drawing on her life’s work. The collection of songs and stories includes pieces from Anderson’s acclaimed solo shows The Speed of Darkness, Happiness, The End of the Moon, and Homeland. Anderson spoke with Pitch in Kansas City about what to expect from the show; you can read the interview at pitch.com.

Reviewing Anderson's performance of Delusion at Montreal's Usine C from earlier this week, the Montreal Gazette called it "a thought-provoking, soul-nourishing performance."

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Timothy Andres joins the ACME Ensemble for the season-opening performance of the Southern Exposure New Music Series at the University of South Carolina School of Music in Charleston tonight.

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Shawn Colvin performs at Callaway Gardens in Pine Mountain, Georgia, tonight as part of the inaugural Harvest Moon Festival, a four-day food and music festival.

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Gidon Kremer joins the National Symphony Orchestra and conductor John Storgårds, making his NSO debut, to perform Sibelius's Violin Concerto at The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Following last night's first performance of the program, which also includes works by Mussorgsky, Liadov, and Nielsen, the artists return for encore performances on Saturday and Sunday.

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k.d. lang and the Siss Boom Bang continue their US tour with support from Teddy Thompson in a trio of concerts in Florida this weekend: at Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater, the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach on Saturday, and the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall in Sarasota on Sunday.

"Since the beginnings of her career, the hard-to-pigeonhole lang and her glorious march through country, torch, pop, standards and folk have showcased a thoughtful, respectful hand at reinterpreting previously released works," writes the Palm Beach Post's Leslie Gray Street, previewing Saturday's show. "A lot of this has to do with her voice, that aforementioned warm, passionate instrument that never over sings, never shows off, even though it could."

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Natalie Merchant performs a sold-out show at the Highline Ballroom in New York City tonight. It will be an intimate acoustic performance featuring Merchant together with Erik Della Penna and Gabriel Gordon on guitars.

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Pat Metheny continues his US tour with bassist (and member of the Brad Mehldau Trio) Larry Grenadier with three shows this weekend: at the Grand Opera House in Wilmington, Deleware, tonight; the Hopkins Center's Spaulding Auditorium at Dartmouth College in Hanover New Hampshire, tonight; and the Somerville Theater outside of Boston on Sunday.

The duo heads next to New York City, where they launch a week-long residency at the Blue Note on Monday.

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Allen Toussaint brings his Australian tour with the Dirty Dozen Brass Band and Jon Cleary's Philthy Phew to a close this weekend with stops at the Fremantle Arts Centre tonight and in Caloundra's Kings Beach Park on Sunday. The latter is part of the Caloundra Music Festival, where Toussaint closes out the festival's Zinc Beach Stage.