The Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra performs the seasonally appropriate Adams nativity oratorio, El Niño ... David Byrne brings his "spectacular show" (Charleston Post & Courier) to Florida ... Elliott Carter's 100th birthday celebration continues at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and around the world ... Emmylou Harris considers Kitty Wells on NPR's All Things Considered ... Mandy Patinkin performs Mamaloshen and Broadway's finest at New York's Public Theater ... Chris Thile and Edgar Meyer join Garrison Keillor, Yo-Yo Ma, and Renée Fleming for A Prairie Home Companion ... Wilco plays on with Neil Young then headlines in Baltimore ... and more ...
What better season than this to hear John Adams's 1999 nativity oratorio, El Niño? The Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, led by David Robertson, performs the piece in its entirety both Saturday night and Sunday afternoon at Powell Hall in St. Louis. Soprano Jessica Rivera, a featured artists on the Nonesuch recording of Adams's latest opera, A Flowering Tree, performs the piece along with mezzo-soprano Kelley O'Connor; bass-barritone Jonathan Lemalu; countertenors Steven Rickards, Daniel Bubeck, adn Brian Cummings; the Saint Louis Symphony Chorus; and the St. Louis Children's Choirs, led by Barbara Berner.
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David Byrne's Songs of David Byrne and Brian Eno tour continues at the Tampa Theatre in Tampa, Florida, tonight, then heads down east to play the Filmore Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason Theater.
After Monday's show in Raleigh, North Carolina, the News Observer exclaimed that Byrne and his cohorts spent the night "serving up an extraordinary performance ... [T]he confidence of age and experience suits Byrne perfectly." The Charleston City Paper describes the show's stop at the North Charleston Performing Art Center on Tuesday as "a groove-heavy musical trip" that proved that "Bryne hasn't lost a step." The Charleston Post & Courier says Byrne "treated a sold-out audience to a spectacular show."
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Elliott Carter's 100th birthday celebration continues all weekend and around the world after yesterday's birthday-night concert at Carnegie Hall by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. There's more at Carnegie Hall, where Making Music: Elliott Carter offers an all-Carter, multimedia program in Zankel Hall, and the New York Philharmonic has its own Day of Carter at Lincoln Center. Weekend concerts are also scheduled in Chicago, Paris, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Vienna, Cologne, Munich, Basel, and Porto, Portugal. For more information, read the Nonesuch Journal posting from earlier today or visit carter100.com.
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Tune in to NPR's All Things Considered this Sunday evening to hear Emmylou Harris discuss "The Queen of Country Music," Kitty Wells, celebrating the addition of a tune by Wells to the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry.
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Mandy Patinkin continues his two-week residency at The Public Theater in New York City, where he first performed 20 years ago. Tonight he'll perform songs from Mamaloshen, his 1998 Nonesuch release of traditional, classic, and contemporary songs sung entirely in Yiddish. Tomorrow night, it's Dress Casual, featuring the music of Rodgers and Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim, Harry Chapin, and others. The series' third program, Celebrating Sondheim, continues on Monday.
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Edgar Meyer and Chris Thile, who came together to record their first duo album in a self-titled Nonesuch release this fall, share the stage again as guests of Garrison Keillor on A Prairie Home Companion on Saturday evening starting at 6 PM ET. The show will be broadcast live from New York's Town Hall and will also feature cellist Yo-Yo Ma and soprano Renée Fleming.
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Wilco's tour with Neil Young continues this weekend with a stop at Philadelphia's Wachovia Spectrum tonight and at the DCU Center in Worcester, Massachusetts, on Saturday. On Sunday, Wilco takes its night off from the Neil Young tour to headline a sold-out show at Baltimore's Lyric Theatre; Benjy Ferree opens.
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