Mountain Man holds a three-day Cosmic Prom in Durham ... John Adams leads LA Phil in Naive and Sentimental Music ... Laurie Anderson is in Toronto ... The Black Keys play Vegas ... Jeremy Denk plays Ives in Durham ... Rhiannon Giddens, Francesco Turrisi perform in his hometown of Turin ... Kronos Quartet has three concerts in Arizona ... Gaby Moreno is in Nashville ... Mandy Patinkin tours South ... Joshua Redman is in Germany, Netherlands ... Yola tours US Midwest ...
Mountain Man, in association with Duke Performances, brings its fully sold-out Cosmic Prom to The Fruit in Durham, North Carolina, this weekend. In collaboration with visual artist Nathaniel Russell, the trio has created three distinct experiences for it: Beneath the Stars, Under the Canopy, and Below the Sea. The venue transforms each night into a unique and immersive environment in which audiences and Mountain Man will embrace spontaneity, imagination, and wonder. The band explores its collective catalog, joined by special guests.
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John Adams conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic in performances of his 1998 piece Naive and Sentimental Music at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles on Saturday night and Sunday afternoon. Also on the program, Bang on a Can joins in for the world premiere of Julia Wolfe's new piece, Flower Power.
Nonesuch Records released the first recording of Naive and Sentimental Music, performed by the LA Phil and conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, in 2002. The Los Angeles Times calls it “Adams’s most ambitious orchestral score," and the San Francisco Chronicle included it among the best orchestral compositions of the past 50 years.
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Laurie Anderson gives the Canadian premiere of The Art of Falling—solo works and collaborations with her long time musical partner, cellist Rubin Kodheli—at the Royal Conservatory of Music's Koerner Hall in Toronto on Saturday, as part of the 21C Music Festival. "The Art of Falling is an extended improvisation for viola, cello, and electronics," Anderson says. "Hypnotic stories, politics, and dreams weave in and out of the music."
Across the Atlantic Ocean, a group of amateur artists takes part in the first of six workshops at Philharmonie de Paris to create new work in the style of The Art of Falling. The program includes group practice sessions supervised by professional musicians and a culminating concert on at the Philharmonie on March 21.
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The Black Keys perform songs from their new album, "Let's Rock," at The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas on Sunday.
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Jeremy Denk and violinist Stefan Jackiw perform Ives Violin Sonatas at Duke University's Baldwin Auditorium in Durham tonight, presented by Duke Performances. Each sonata on the program is paired with a vocal performance of the hymn tunes and song foundations of Ives’ sonatas, sung by the vocal quartet New York Polyphony.
Denk's latest album, c. 1300–c. 2000, presents a centuries-long story of musical expression in the music of twenty-four different composers, from Guillaume de Machaut to György Ligeti, which the Telegraph calls "exhilarating."
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Rhiannon Giddens and multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi play two shows at the Torino Folk Club tonight and Saturday in Turrisi's hometown of Turin, Italy, tonight. Giddens and Turrisi are nominated for a Grammy Award for Best American Roots Performance for the song "I'm on My Way," from their album there is no Other. "This is acoustic roots music at its most glorious," exclaims Uncut, "and Giddens is fast becoming the genre’s brightest star in the firmament."
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Kronos Quartet leads three concerts in Arizona this Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday weekend, performing at Crowder Hall in Tucson on Saturday and MIM Music Theater in Phoenix on Sunday and Monday. The programs include "Star-Spangled Banner," "The House of the Rising Sun," "Summertime," and "God Shall Wipe All Tears Away," inspired, respectively, by Jimi Hendrix, The Everly Brothers, Janis Joplin, and Mahalia Jackson, as well as the Stacy Garrop piece Glorious Mahalia, featuring the recorded voices of Mahalia Jackson and Studs Terkel, and more.
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Gaby Moreno is in Nashville this weekend, performing at St. Mary's Episcopal School's Buckman Performing Arts Center tonight and City Winery on Saturday.
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Mandy Patinkin continues to tour the United States with pianist Adam Ben-David, performing songs from his new album, Children and Art, at Eisemann Center in Richardson, Texas, tonight, and Philharmonic Center in Naples, Florida, on Sunday.
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Joshua Redman is in Europe, where he joins hr-Bigband led by conductor Jim McNeely at Centralstation in Darmstadt, Germany, tonight. He heads to the Netherlands to begin a three-city tour with The Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw, also led by McKneely, at Theater Heerlen in Heerlen.
Redman released two albums last year: the Grammy-nominated Come What May, with the Joshua Redman Quartet, and Sun on Sand, on which he performs music by Patrick Zimmerli with Brooklyn Rider, bassist Scott Colley, and drummer Satoshi Takeishi.
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Yola, who can be seen in an NPR Tiny Desk concert today, concludes the current leg of her North American Walk Through Fire tour with three stops in the Midwest: a sold-out show at Off Broadway in St. Louis and concerts at Hi-Fi in Indianapolis on Saturday and A&R Music Bar in Columbus on Sunday. She heads to Los Angeles next week for the Grammys and to Maya Riviera, Mexico, at the end of the month for Brandi Carlile's Girls Just Wanna Weekend 2, then resumes her tour in February.
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