Emmylou Harris is being honored by an extraordinary collection of musicians in The Life & Songs of Emmylou Harris: An All-Star Concert Celebration at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, DC, this Saturday night. The concert event taping will feature performances by Harris, Rodney Crowell, Conor Oberst, Iron & Wine, Shawn Colvin, Sara Watkins, Alison Krauss, Kris Kristofferson, Sheryl Crow, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Mavis Staples, Martina McBride, John Hiatt, Lucinda Williams, Trampled By Turtles, Steve Earle, Patty Griffin, Shovels & Rope, Joan Baez, and Milk Carton Kids. Harris will take the stage to perform with a number of special guests throughout the night.

"We have about 20 artists and I could easily have 20 more," the show's co-executive producer, Keith Wortman tells USA Today. "She has broken through so many barriers and reinvented herself and her sound, staying true to vision. She has never been an artist that just followed what was popular."

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Timo Andres continues a three-night run with the North Carolina Symphony, led by Edwin Outwater, with two performances at Meymandi Concert Hall in Raleigh, North Carolina, tonight and Saturday. Andres and the orchestra perform Andres's Old Keys and Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. Also on the program are Gershwin's An American in Paris and works by Mason Bates and Derek Bermel. The concert is the featured Best Classical Pick in the News & Observer.

On Sunday, Andres heads up to Washington, DC, for a solo recital at the Phillips Collection, performing works by Philip Glass, and Franz Schubert, as well as his own piece At the River.

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Olivia Chaney, following last night's performance with Alela Diane at Sydney's City Recital Hall Angel Place as part of the Sydney Festival, plays her own festival set at The Famous Spiegeltent on Sunday. She closes out her two-week tour of Australia with a performance at the Ellington Jazz Club in Perth on Tuesday.

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Jacob Cooper's Stabat Mater Dolorosa will be featured in Vocal Theatre Carmina Slovenica's performance of Toxic Psalms at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn, New York, all weekend as part of the Prototype Festival. Directed by Karmina Šilec, Toxic Psalms juxtaposes music and texts from medieval to present times. Performances by the 30-woman chorus began last night and continue through Sunday.

The show incorporates works by Cooper and others "to create a searing, richly physicalized collective entertainment set in the context of current events in Africa, Russia, and the Middle East," says The New Yorker's Russell Platt. "Some listeners will recall the raw feminine energy of Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares, while others will see parallels with the work of Heiner Goebbels and David Lang. All will be moved by the show’s condemnation of 'men killing for the glory of their psalms.'"

Jacob Cooper made his Nonesuch Records debut with the release of his album SIlver Threads last year.

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As noted earlier today in the Nonesuch Journal, Paul Thomas Anderson's new film, Inherent Vice, opens in theaters across the US today. An adaptation of the Thomas Pynchon novel of the same name, Inherent Vice is set in the tail end of the psychedelic ’60s and stars Oscar nominees Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, and Owen Wilson. The Telegraph calls it "dazzling ... stupendous: as antic as Boogie Nights and Punch-Drunk Love, but with The Master and There Will Be Blood’s uncanny feel for the swell and ebb of history." The film's soundtrack, featuring music by Jonny Greenwood, Neil Young, Can, and more, is out now.

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Gidon Kremer joins the Naples Philharmonic and cellist Giedre Dirvanauskaite for a performance of Weinberg's Violin Concerto and Rózsa's Theme and Variations for Violin and Cello at Hayes Hall in Naples, Florida, tonight and Saturday. Also on the program is Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade.