Wilco kicks off a six-night, sold-out residency—Wilco Winterlude 2014—at the Riviera Theatre in the band’s home base of Chicago tonight and on Saturday. Set lists will change each night and feature songs from every era of Wilco’s two-decade career. The performances are part of WXRT Radio’s annual Holiday Concerts for the Kids, during which attendees are encouraged to donate toys and books for children in Chicagoland hospitals during the holiday season. WXRT will broadcast Saturday’s concert live in Chicago on 93.1 FM at 9PM CT and across the country via 93XRT.com.

In celebration of the band’s 20th anniversary, Nonesuch Records just released two new Wilco collections: Alpha Mike Foxtrot, a four-disc box set of rare studio and live recordings collected from the band’s extensive audio archives, and What’s Your 20?, a two-CD compilation of essential tracks culled from the band’s previously released studio recordings. Early demos "show the first signs of the wry lyricism that blossomed on later albums. Even better are a trove of unreleased cuts that peek at alternate realities,” writes Rolling Stone of Alpha Mike Foxtrot. “Taken together, it's a comprehensive document of a great band with endless secrets to reveal, even now.” The Boston Globe lauds What’s Your 20? as a “a well-curated hits collection.” 

Sam Amidon opens for Wilco as the special guest on Saturday. He stays in Chicago for his own headline set at The Hideout on Sunday, followed by shows in Ann Arbor and Toronto in the week ahead. Amidon recently stopped by NPR with Bill Frisell and Shahzad Ismaily to give a Tiny Desk Concert. They performed two songs from Amidon’s latest album, Lily-O, on which Frisell and Ismaily perform, and which Tiny Desk Concert host Bob Boilen calls “gorgeous,” as well as one song from Amidon’s 2013 Nonesuch Records debut album, Bright Sunny South. You can watch the performance here.

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John Adams’s oratorio The Gospel According to the Other Mary receives its final performance by the English National Opera (ENO), directed by Peter Sellars, at the London Coliseum tonight.

Across the Atlantic, Adams conducts the New World Symphony and saxophonist Timothy McAllister in a performance of his own Saxophone Concerto at the New World Center in Miami Beach, Florida, on Saturday. The debut recording of the piece, written for McAllister, was released on Nonesuch Records this past spring. Also on Saturday, the banquet scene from Adams’s Nixon in China is performed by members of the Los Angeles Opera and the Los Angeles Master Chorale at the Music Center’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, as part of the Music Center’s 50th anniversary gala.

Speaking of all of the above this weekend … Nonesuch Records President Bob Hurwitz joins famed theater director Peter Sellars, a frequent collaborator of composer John Adams’s, including on Nixon in China and The Gospel According to the Other Mary, for a conversation at UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall on Sunday. The two discuss the ties that bind in the worlds of music recording and live performance, sharing stories of artistic intersection that have shaped the world of contemporary music.

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Timo Andres and Nico Muhly join Philip Glass and a number of fellow composers and pianists to perform the complete Glass Piano Etudes at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)’s Howard Gilman Opera House in Brooklyn tonight and on Saturday.

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The Black Keys continue their Turn Blue World Tour in the US South at the PNC Arena in Raleigh, North Carolina, tonight and the Richmond Coliseum in Richmond, Virginia, on Saturday. This leg of the tour, which continues in Nashville, St. Louis, and Atlanta in the week ahead, features supporting sets by special guest St. Vincent. Turn Blue recently landed at No. 3 on Rolling Stone’s 50 Best Albums of 2014 list.

In advance of Monday’s performance in Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena, The Black Keys are featured on the cover of the Nashville Scene’s Year in Music issue. Band mates Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney talk to their hometown paper about life in the band, in Nashville and on the road. You can read what they have to say in the article at nashvillescene.com.

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The cast of the film Boyhood and its director Richard Linklater are participating in a series of Q&As at screenings of the film at the ArcLight Hollywood cinemas this weekend: Linklater and Ellar Coltrane this evening, Ethan Hawke tomorrow afternoon, and Patricia Arquette tomorrow evening. For details and tickets, visit arclightcinemas.com.

Boyhood received the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Film of the Year, Best Director for Linklater, and Best Supporting Actress for Arquette earlier this week. Also this week, the film received the Gotham Independent Film Audience Award and was named among the Top Films of the Year by the National Board of Review.

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Pianist Richard Goode leads a master class and seminar at Bard College’s Bitó Conservatory Building in Annandale-On-Hudson, New York, on Sunday afternoon. Conservatory students play works related to the topic of the afternoon, Slow Movements in Piano Repertoire, with coaching and discussion by Goode.

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Emmylou Harris performs an intimate show at The Hamilton in Washington, DC, on Sunday, to benefit her dog rescue, Bonaparte’s Retreat. She is joined by special guest Mary Chapin Carpenter.

Harris returns to DC next year for The Life & Songs of Emmylou Harris: An All-Star Concert Celebration, a once-in-a-lifetime concert event taping honoring Harris. The concert will take place at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, DC, on January 10, and will feature performances by Carpenter, Rodney Crowell, Iron and Wine, Conor Oberst, Shawn Colvin, Sara Watkins, Joan Baez, and many more. Harris will take the stage to perform with a number of special guests throughout the night.

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Iron and Wine, aka Sam Beam, brings the music of his Nonesuch debut album, Ghost on Ghost, to the Showbox in Seattle on Saturday, headlining the SMooCH benefit concert for Seattle Children’s Hospital. He heads down to Oregon to perform at Mississippi Studios in Portland on Sunday.

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Kronos Quartet performs the last two of three sets at Sesc Pinheiros in São Paulo, Brazil, tonight and on Saturday, as part of the SESC Festival de Música de Câmara. During its residency there, Kronos offers master classes, activities, and performances that feature works written for the Quartet by Terry Riley, Michael Gordon, Bryce Dessner, Astor Piazzolla, Philip Glass, and much more.

Kronos heads across the continent to conclude its tour of South America with two performances in Quito in the week ahead.

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Audra McDonald continues her extensive concert tour at three universities in California this weekend: Sonoma State University’s Green Music Center in Rohnert Park tonight; University of California’s Zellerbach Hall in Berkeley on Saturday; and UCSB’s Granada Theatre in Santa Barbara on Sunday. Backed by an instrumental trio (led by music director Andy Einhorn on piano), McDonald performs songs from her latest album, Go Back Home, as well as other songs from the American songbook.

McDonald recently spoke to the Wall Street Journal about growing up in California, joining a theater group, and living in upstate New York. Read the full article, aptly titled “Broadway Bound: Audra McDonald on Her Childhood Home,” at online.wsj.com.

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The Brad Mehldau Trio, featuring bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jeff Ballard, kicked off an eight-city US tour at the Mondavi Center in Davis, California, last night. The group stays in the Golden State for performances at two universities this weekend: Stanford University’s Bing Concert Hall tonight and Cal State’s Valley Performing Arts Center in Northridge on Saturday, joined for the latter by The Bad Plus. The tour then heads to Arizona for a sold-out show at the Music Instrument Museum Music Theater in Phoenix on Sunday, and continues in North Carolina, Philadelphia, Boston, and upstate New York.

“The trio format is one that I feel at home with in a way that we can continue to grow together,” Mehldau tells the Sacramento Bee. “I feel that I know how to orchestrate for those variables and hopefully am still thinking of new ideas.” Read the full interview at sacbee.com.

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Pat Metheny Unity Group—with Chris Potter, Antonio Sanchez, Ben Williams, and Giulio Carmassi—closes out its week-long residency at the Blue Note in New York City with two sets each tonight, on Saturday, and on Sunday. This marks the end of a year-long, worldwide tour in support of the Unity Group’s Nonesuch debut album, Kin (←→).