This long, Presidents’ Day weekend in the United States, Joshua Redman and the Still Dreaming quartet—drummer Brian Blade, bassist Scott Colley, and cornetist Ron Miles—perform at Barbican Hall in London on Monday. They head into a four-date tour of Europe from there, performing in Italy, Belgium, and Norway. The group, which the Washington Post calls “consistently riveting,” released a self-titled album on Nonesuch last year that went on to be nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album.

Redman and a different quartet—pianist Aaron Goldberg, bassist Reuben Rogers, and drummer Gregory Hutchinson—will release Come What May on March 29. The album, featuring seven originals by Redman, is available to pre-order in the Nonesuch Store now with an instant download of the album track “How We Do” and an exclusive, limited-edition print autographed by the group.

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Laurie Anderson is at the Art Institute of Chicago’s Rubloff Auditorium on Sunday evening, as part of Pitchfork’s Midwinter festival. Anderson “retains a powerful love and belief in humanity, even after its stories are dismantled,” says the Quietus. Her “imagery and themes are lightly deployed, unobtrusive but perfectly chosen, as subtly telling as a series of haikus.”

Anderson won her first Grammy Award last weekend, taking home Best Chamber Music / Small Ensemble Performance with Kronos Quartet for their album Landfall. The Washington Post calls it “riveting, gorgeous.”

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Emmylou Harris is on the week-long Cayamo cruise, performing as the ship makes its way back to Tampa, Florida, after stops in Montego Bay, Jamaica, and Costa Maya, Mexico. Harris “seems almost a genre unto herself,” writes the Los Angeles Times. “An artist to whom listeners can turn without knowing how to classify her music, but secure in knowing their time won’t be wasted on frivolity … she plumbs the deepest reaches of human experience.”

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Steve Reich’s works are being performed around the world this weekend, from Hong Kong to Sydney to London.

The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, led by conductor Andre de Ridder, gives the Chinese premiere of Reich’s 1986 piece Three Movements at Tsuen Wan Town Hall in Hong Kong tonight and Saturday, on a program that also includes the Chinese premiere of music from Jonny Greenwood's score to the film There Will Be Blood.

The London Sinfonietta concludes a UK tour of an all-Reich program at Royal Concert Hall in Nottingham tonight and Anvil Arts in Basingstoke on Saturday. The ensemble, joined by Synergy Vocals, performs Music for 18 Musicians and Clapping Music and gives the first UK concert performances of Runner.

Reich’s 2018 piece Music for Ensemble and Orchestra receives its Australian premiere with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, led by David Robertson, at the Sydney Opera House tonight and Saturday. 

“There’s just a handful of living composers who can legitimately claim to have altered the direction of musical history,” says the Guardian, “and Steve Reich is one of them.” NPR says: “When he began, Reich was an outsider. Now his work is embraced by temples of high culture around the world.”