Rachael & Vilray celebrate the release of their new album, I Love a Love Song!, with a sold-out show at Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn tonight. John Adams’ Nixon in China opens at Dortmund Opera House in Germany. Laurie Anderson is honored at Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra Gala, then joins John Zorn and Sean Ono Lennon at Roulette in Brooklyn for Türkiye and Syria benefit. Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels' opera Omar gets Chapel Hill premiere. Richard Goode plays Beethoven at 92Y in NYC. Cécile McLorin Salvant premieres Ogresse: Envisioned at Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Brad Mehldau Trio tours Spain. Chris Thile joins Orlando Philharmonic. Molly Tuttle joins Old Crow Medicine Show in Georgia and Virginia.
Rachael & Vilray—Lake Street Dive singer/songwriter Rachael Price and composer, singer, and guitarist Vilray—play a sold-out show at Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn tonight, in celebration of their new album, I Love a Love Song!, released last month on Nonesuch Records. "I Love a Love Song! is a truly lovely album, front to back," says No Depression. "More than anything, it’s two accomplished solo performers coming together with a mutual respect and love of musical standards with the goal of responding in kind."
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A new production of John Adams’ groundbreaking opera Nixon in China gets its premiere performance at the Dortmund Opera House in Germany on Sunday, performed by Dortmund Philharmonic and Opera Choir Theater Dortmund, with musical direction by Olivia Lee-Gundermann. Performances continue through March. Nonesuch Records’ 1988 Grammy-winning original cast recording of the opera can be heard on the new forty-disc box set John Adams Collected Works, released last year. An Opéra national de Paris production of Nixon in China, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel and starring Thomas Hampson and Renée Fleming as Richard and Pat Nixon, begins in late March.
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Laurie Anderson performs with the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra at The Geraghty in her hometown of Chicago on Saturday for the 2023 CYSO Gala, celebrating Women in Music. A CYSO alum, Anderson is one of three honorees at the event, which also includes performances from CYSO’s Kaiso Steel Orchestra, Jazz Orchestra, and more. The following day, Anderson joins John Zorn and Sean Ono Lennon for a trio performance at Roulette in Brooklyn, a benefit event to support disaster aid in Türkiye and Syria. All ticket proceeds will be donated to the International Rescue Committee, which provides lifesaving health care and protection services along with other emergency early recovery support to those affected.
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Rhiannon Giddens is in her home state of North Carolina for the Carolina Performing Arts premiere of Omar, the new opera she composed with Michael Abels, at Memorial Hall in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on Saturday and Sunday. Omar is based on the life and autobiography of enslaved Muslim scholar Omar Ibn Said, who was forcefully brought to Charleston from Africa in 1807. It premieres at Boston Lyric Opera May 4–7 and San Francisco Opera November 5–21. Following the CPA premiere, Giddens heads to Davidson to perform at Knobloch Campus Center at Davidson College on Sunday.
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Pianist Richard Goode performs an all-Beethoven program at 92Y’s Kaufmann Concert Hall in New York City on Sunday. Goode’s famed recordings of the complete Beethoven sonatas, released on Nonesuch in 1993, "are performances to which one can return without fear of finding them stale,” said the Guardian. “Superb.” Gramophone calls it "one of the finest interpretations ever put on record."
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Cécile McLorin Salvant gives the world premiere performance of Ogresse: Envisioned, featuring a thirteen-piece chamber orchestra, arranged and conducted by Darcy James Argue, at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis on Saturday and Sunday. Salvant has been nominated for the Deutscher Jazzpreis for International Vocal Album for her 2022 Nonesuch debut, Ghost Song. Her new album, Mélusine, a mix of five originals and interpretations of nine songs, dating as far back as the 12th century, mostly sung in French along with Occitan, English, and Haitian Kreyòl, is due March 24.
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Brad Mehldau Trio—bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jeff Ballard—concludes its week-long tour of Spain this weekend, with shows at Auditori Palau de Congressos de Girona tonight, Auditori Palau de Congressos de Castelló on Saturday, and Teatre Principal de Maó on Sunday. Mehldau’s new live solo album, Your Mother Should Know: Brad Mehldau Plays The Beatles, was released on Nonesuch earlier this month. Mojo gives it four stars, calling it “an inspired set that reveals new ways of hearing pop classics."
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Chris Thile debuts original work with the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra at Steinmetz Hall in Orlando, Florida, on Saturday. He will be joined by vocalist Aoife O’Donovan, violinist Rimma Bergeron-Langlois, and conductors Eric Jacobsen and Georgia Mills for afternoon and evening performances, which also include works by Bach, Dvořák, Leonard Bernstein, and more.
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Molly Tuttle performs as special guest of Old Crow Medicine Show at Anderson Music Hall in Hiawassee, Georgia, tonight, followed by shows in Virginia at Berglund Performing Arts Theatre in Roanoke on Saturday and The NorVa in Norfolk on Sunday. Earlier this month, Tuttle and her band Golden Highway won the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album for their 2022 Nonesuch debut album, Crooked Tree, which NPR calls "a set of dashingly virtuosic songs."
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