Laurie Anderson performs with John Zorn and Mary Halvorson with Marc Ribot in A Concert for Ukraine at The New School in NYC to benefit Razom. Timo Andres celebrates Philip Glass' birthday in Santa Monica. Jeremy Denk gives a sold-out solo recital at Hertz Hall in Berkeley. Kronos Quartet performs in Iowa City. Mandy Patinkin is in Tarrytown. Caroline Shaw sings at Merkin Hall in NYC. Cécile McLorin Salvant tours Texas.
Laurie Anderson and Mary Halvorson perform in A Concert for Ukraine at The New School’s Tishman Auditorium in New York City on Sunday at noon, presented by John Zorn and The College of Performing Arts at The New School. General admission tickets are free with a suggested donation of $50 and above to Razom, a non-profit human rights organization working to support the people of Ukraine. Anderson performs a duo set with Zorn, and Halvorson has a duo set with fellow guitarist Marc Ribot. Also performing are Brooklyn Rider and Ravi Coltrane Quartet.
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Timo Andres takes part in a birthday tribute to Philip Glass at the First Presbyterian Church in Santa Monica on Sunday, presented by Jacaranda Music. He joins fellow pianist David Kaplan—with whom he recorded his 2010 Nonesuch debut album, Shy and Mighty—and others for a program of Glass’s early works.
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Jeremy Denk gives a sold-out solo recital at Hertz Hall in Berkeley on Sunday afternoon, presented by Cal Performances. On the program Beethoven’s are Piano Sonata in C minor, Op. 111—which Denk performs on his 2019 album c. 1300–c. 2000 and his 2012 Nonesuch debut album, Ligeti/Beethoven—and works by Bach, Schubert, Joplin, Rzewski, and more.
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Kronos Quartet performs At War With Ourselves – 400 Years of You at the University of Iowa’s Hancher Auditorium in Iowa City on Saturday. The new work for string quartet (Kronos), narrator (Nikky Finney), and chorus (Tonality) features a text by Finney, inspired by her 2013 poem “The Battle of and for the Black Face Boy,” with music composed by Michael Abels, who co-wrote the opera Omar with Rhiannon Giddens. The performance will be conducted by Valérie Sainte-Agathe.
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Mandy Patinkin continues his Being Alive tour with pianist Adam Ben-David at Tarrytown Music Hall in Tarrytown, New York, on Saturday. The concert is a collection of many of Patinkin’s favorite Broadway and classic American tunes, from Irving Berlin and Cole Porter to Stephen Sondheim and Harry Chapin.
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Caroline Shaw, who just won a Grammy Award with Attacca Quartet for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance for their new album, Evergreen, returns to the venue where the album was recorded, Kaufman Music Center’s Merkin Hall in New York City, to perform a program of her own songs.
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Cécile McLorin Salvant, whom Highsnobiety named among the best dressed on last Sunday’s Grammy Awards red carpet, takes her music and tall-hat style to Texas for two performances: at the Cullen Theater in Houston tonight and Bass Concert Hall in Austin on Saturday.
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