Alarm Will Sound performs Adams, Reich, and Braxton, and Timo Andres performs his Shy and Mighty at Seoul's Right Now Music Festival ... Laurie Anderson performs in upstate NY ... Fatoumata Diawara starts US tour ... Rhiannon Giddens takes tour to mid-Atlantic ... Audra McDonald sings at SUNY Potsdam ... Brad Mehldau plays three sold-out shows in Paris, including a set with Tigran Hamasyan ... Punch Brothers tour Texas ... Joshua Redman Trio tours Europe ... and more ...
Alarm Will Sound and Timo Andres are featured at the Right Now Music Festival taking place in Seoul, South Korea, this weekend. Alarm Will Sound, which the New York Times has called "one of the most vital and original ensembles on the American scene," bookends each festival day, Saturday and Sunday. The group opens each day with performances of Steve Reich’s Radio Rewrite, of which they made the first recording for Nonesuch Records in 2014, and John Adams’s Son of Chamber Symphony and closes each evening joining Dance Heginbotham in the South Korean premiereof Twinned, a choreographed version of Tyondai Braxton’s chamber orchestra piece Fly By Wire. Also on the latter program are works by Varèse & Aphex Twin
Timo Andres is at the festival on Saturday, performing music from his 2010 Nonesuch album, Shy and Mighty, with fellow pianist David Kaplan, who is also featured on the album. The two pianists perform the piece at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, later this month.
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John Adams’s Chamber Symphony receives three performances this weekend by the San Francisco Symphony and conductor Pablo Heras-Casado at Davies Symphony Hall. The program also includes Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D major, which features Joshua Bell, and Schoenberg’s Chamber Symphony No. 1.
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Laurie Anderson brings her performance piece The Language of the Future to Hamilton College’s Wellin Hall in Clinton, New York, Saturday night. At a recent performance of this piece, in Nashville, Anderson “transfixed her audience,” reports the Nashville Scene.
Anderson spends next week at the Live Arts Theater in New York City as the curator of the Live Ideas Festival, in conjunction with New York Live Arts’ Artistic Director Bill T. Jones. The festival runs April 15–19 and includes more than 25 events—music, dance, poetry, film, and discussion, featuring Anderson among others.
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Fatoumata Diawara kicks off her spring tour this week with performances at Carnegie Hall in Lewisburg, West Virginia, tonight and at Arden Guild Hall in Arden, Delaware, on Saturday. In a conversation with PBS Newshour last month, Diawara, born of Malian parents in the Ivory Coast, spoke of the importance of unity: “If we want the best for Africa, the only—the first thing to do is to know how to bring peace. Without peace, nothing, we cannot start any kind of government. Nothing, nothing’s possible.” Her debut album, Fatou, was released in 2012.
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Rhiannon Giddens, who wowed a sold-out crowd at The Town Hall in New York City last night, continues her spring tour with performances at Philadelphia’s Theatre of Living Arts tonight and Washington’s Lincoln Theatre on Sunday. “The talented Ms. Giddens seems to find fresh zeal [on her debut solo album, Tomorrow is My Turn],” wrote the New York Times in a preview of last night's show. “Her hearty, deeply emotive voice still earns its spotlight.”
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Audra McDonald continues her North American tour with a performance at SUNY Potsdam’s Hosmer Hall on Saturday night. In a preview of the performance, local television station WWNY praises “the breadth and versatility of her artistry,” noting her “luminous soprano voice and [her] incomparable gift for dramatic truth telling.”
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Brad Mehldau gives three sold-out concerts at Philharmonie de Paris this weekend, each showcasing a different set of performers: a duo show with label mate Tigran Hamasyan tonight; with his Trio—Larry Grenadier on bass and Jeff Ballard on drums—on Saturday, as part of their ongoing European tour; and a solo set on Sunday
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Punch Brothers continue their spring tour featuring music from their new album, The Phosphorescent Blues, with performances at two House of Blues locations this weekend: Houston tonight and Dallas Saturday night, both with support from Gabriel Kahane. The Denver Post’s Hey Reverb blog reports that the band “had the crowd wrapped around its finger from the opening notes of its 100-minute set” at this week’s show in Denver.
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The Joshua Redman Trio, featuring Reuben Rogers on bass and Gregory Hutchinson on drums, kicks off a European tour with performances at Autostadt in Wolfsburg, Germany, tonight; at Gateshead International Jazz Festival in Gateshead, England, Saturday night; and two sets at Paradox in Tilburg, Netherlands, Sunday afternoon and evening.
The Bad Plus Joshua Redman will be touring in support of the quartet’s self-titled debut album this summer, as announced earlier this week.
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In addition to Alarm Will Sound’s aforementioned performance of Steve Reich’s Radio Rewrite in Korea, there are a number of notable performances of the composer’s music in Europe this weekend: Ballet de l'Opéra de Lyon performs choreographer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker’s 1998 setting of his seminal 1971 piece Drumming at Amphithéâtre de l'Opéra in Lyon, France, tonight and Saturday night, and the Colin Currie Group gives the Dutch premiere of Reich’s Quartet with performances in in Amsterdam, Tilburg, and Middelburg.
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