Steve Reich and Caroline Shaw are performed at Carnegie Hall, while Reich is also performed in Brooklyn, and Ringdown—Shaw and Danni Lee Parpan—performs in Portland. John Adams is performed by the San Francisco Symphony. Jeremy Denk is also in San Francisco, with Takács Quartet, at Hertz Hall. Gabriel Kahane and his father Jeffrey Kahane are at Northwestern, while Cécile McLorin Salvant is at Yale.
Composers Steve Reich and Caroline Shaw’s works are performed by Roomful of Teeth and Tambuco Percussion Ensemble in Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall in New York City on Saturday. The program features Shaw’s The Isle and Reich’s Mallet Quartet and more. Roomful of Teeth can be heard on Shaw’s new score to Ken Burns’s film LEONARDO da VINCI, along with Attacca Quartet, Sō Percussion, and John Patitucci.
Across the river in Brooklyn, Steve Reich’s Electric Counterpoint is performed at Public Records tonight, in a thirteen-guitar big band rendition of the piece. Two recordings of Electric Counterpoint—one by Pat Metheny, the other by Jonny Greenwood—are included in the new box set Steve Reich Collected Works, due March 14, which features music recorded during the composer’s forty years on the label.
Ringdown, Caroline Shaw’s duo with Danni Lee Parpan, is with New Body Electric, performing at Holocene in Portland, Oregon, on Sunday. Ringdown two singles on Nonesuch last year—“Ghost”and “Two-Step”—and can be heard on “Slow Motion,” a track from Shaw and Sō Percussion’s Grammy-nominated new album, Rectangles and Circumstance.
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Composer John Adams’s Short Ride in a Fast Machine is performed by the San Francisco Symphony, conducted by Mark Elder, at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco tonight and on Saturday. Also on the program are works by Berlioz, Debussy, and Strauss. The orchestra’s 1986 Davies Hall performance of Short Ride in a Fast Machine, from the album The Chairman Dances, can also be heard on John Adams Collected Works, a forty-disc box set released in 2022 with recordings spanning more than four decades of the composer’s career with Nonesuch Records.
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Pianist Jeremy Denk is also in San Francisco, joining Takács Quartet at Hertz Hall on Sunday. On the program are Beethoven’s String Quartet in F major, Op. 18, No. 1; Janáček’s String Quartet No. 1; and Brahms’s Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34. Denk, whose new album, Ives Denk, features works by Charles Ives, performs works by Beethoven, Brahms, and others on his 2019 album, c. 1300–c. 2000.
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Gabriel Kahane joins his father Jeffrey Kahane for Northwestern University’s Skyline Piano Artist Series, performing at the Bienen School of Music’s Galvin Recital Hall in Evanston, Illinois, on Saturday. Last fall, Kahane 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 Ambrose Akinmusire (whose own video in the series was released this week), Punch Brothers, Sam Amidon, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Richard Goode & Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Fred Hersch, and his father. You can watch it here.
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Cécile McLorin Salvant and her band—pianist Glenn Zaleski, bassist Yasushi Nakamura, and drummer Kyle Poole—perform at Yale University’s Schwarzman Center Commons in New Haven on Saturday. Before Salvant takes the stage, the Yale Undergraduate Jazz Collective plays an opening set. Salvant was named Female Vocalist of the Year in the DownBeat Critics Poll.
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