David Longstreth hosts a listening party and performance of music from his upcoming album, Song of the Earth, recorded with his band Dirty Projectors and the Berlin-based chamber orchestra s t a r g a z e, out April 4, at 2220 Arts + Archives in Los Angeles tonight and on Saturday. Next month, Longstreth hosts two sold-out listening parties at Public Records in Brooklyn. The album track “Uninhabitable Earth, Paragraph One,” is out now, and the video is available to watch here. Longstreth stopped by the Nonesuch office for the Nonesuch Selects video series to share some of his favorite albums from the music library. He chose recordings by David Byrne, Jonny Greenwood, Bulgarian State Television Female Choir, Caetano Veloso, Tyondai Braxton, Scritti Politti, and João Gilberto, and from the Nonesuch Explorer Series. You can watch it here.

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Haitian-American singer and composer Nathalie Joachim kicks off a run of spring dates with a performance of music from her acclaimed 2024 album Ki moun ou ye at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, on Sunday afternoon. Ki moun ou ye takes listeners through an intimate collection of music that ponders its title’s question: “Who are you?” Inspired by the remote Caribbean farmland that her family continues to call home after seven generations and performed in both English and Haitian Creole, the work examines the richness of one’s voice—an instrument that brings with it DNA, ancestry, and identity—in a vibrant tapestry of Joachim’s voice, and intricately sampled vocal textures underscored by an acoustic instrumental ensemble.

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Gabriel Kahane and his father, pianist Jeffrey Kahane, join members of Orchestra Lumos for a performance at The Palace Theatre in Stamford, Connecticut, on Saturday and Sunday. The program, hosted by Gabriel Kahane and titled Music of Memory and Reconciliation, centers on the theme of immigration. It features Gabriel Kahane’s Heirloom, which he wrote for his father; songs from his Nonesuch albums Magnificent Bird and Book of Travelers; and works by Mahler, Schubert, and more.

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Pianist Brad Mehldau performs a sold-out show featuring works from his latest albums Après Fauré and After Bach II at the Casals Forum in Kronberg, Germany, on Sunday. On Après Fauré, Mehldau performs four nocturnes, from a thirty-seven-year span of Fauré’s career, as well as a reduction of an excerpt from the Adagio movement of his Piano Quartet in G Minor, along with four of Mehldau’s compositions that Fauré inspired presented in a group, bookended by two sections featuring the French composer’s works. On After Bach II, he performs four preludes and one fugue from J.S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, as well as the Allemande from Partita for Keyboard No. 4 in D Major, interspersed with seven compositions or improvisations by Mehldau inspired by the complementary works of the Baroque master—including his Variations on Bach’s Goldberg Theme. The Associated Press says: “Mehldau’s variations are bracing and daring, breathtaking and beautiful, spiritual and psychedelic. Blue notes emerge from the contrapuntal complexity as he tests the limits of Bach’s music, showing there are none.

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Cécile McLorin Salvant and her band—pianist Glenn Zaleski, bassist Yasushi Nakamura, and drummer Kyle Poole—perform at the Chicago Symphony Center tonight and at the Annenberg Theatre in Palm Springs on Sunday for the Palm Springs International Jazz Festival. You can listen to her conversation with David Krauss on the Speaking Soundly podcast here.

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Guitarist/composer Yasmin Williams follows last night's opening night set at the Wintergrass festival in Bellevue, Washington, with two performances today and Saturday. Williams, whose NPR Tiny Desk Concert premiered earlier this month, shared a few words with NPR.org about how "losing" the Tiny Desk Contest some years ago helped launch her music career. "Please understand that you only really lose if you don't try," she concludes. "Keep pushing, y'all! Stay true to yourself, don't lose your integrity and know that, even when something feels like a loss, it can reveal itself to be the thing that changes your life for the better."