Timo Andres joins fellow pianist Vicky Chow and percussionists Ji Hye Jung, Ian Rosenbaum, and Svet Stoyanov in performing works by composer Steve Reich for “Steve Reich Masterpieces” at the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami on Sunday. The program includes performances of Reich’s Drumming Part 1, Mallet Quartet, and Sextet, as well as the Florida premiere of Reich’s Quartet for two pianos and double percussion and a new transcription of Reich’s Electric Counterpoint.

Across the country, Ensemble Signal, led by conductor Brad Lubman, continues the world’s season-long celebrations of Reich’s 80th birthday with a performance of his Clapping Music, Double Sextet, Radio Rewrite, and Quartet, and the US premiere of the composer’s new piece Runner at Hertz Hall at the University of California, Berkeley, on Sunday, presented by Cal Performances, which co-commissioned the new work.

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Composer John Adams’s groundbreaking opera Nixon in China returns to the Houston Grand Opera, which commissioned the piece, for a performance at the Wortham Theater Center, where the opera received its world premiere 30 years ago this year. The current run opened last weekend and concludes on Saturday. The Boston Globe called the 1987 work “a milestone in American operatic history.” The Grammy Award–winning first recording, released on Nonesuch in 1988, "has an eloquence not since matched," says Los Angeles Times.

Celebrations of Adams's 70th birthday, which began in fall 2016, including the Grammy-nominated release of the first recording of his Scheherazade.2 on Nonesuch in September, continue through 2017 with major festivities taking place in the composer's native California, organized around his birthday on February 15, and around the world. Visit the Nonesuch Journal for a rundown of several of the major events.

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Devendra Banhart launched a two-month North American tour featuring music from his 2016 album, Ape in Pink Marble this week, which continues with two shows in California this weekend: at The Observatory North Park in San Diego on Saturday and The Observatory in Santa Ana on Sunday. Banhart plays one last California show at the Mayan Theater in Los Angeles on Tuesday before heading to Arizona and Colorado. Q magazine and the Times of London give the new album four stars; Uncut calls it "excellent," praising Banhart as an “accomplished shaper of moods and atmosphere.”

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Brazilian samba singer Teresa Cristina plays three shows in her home country this weekend: Teatro RioMar in Recife on Friday, Riachuelo Theater in Natal on Saturday, and Teatro RioMar in Fortazela on Sunday. Cristina’s latest album and DVD, Canta Cartola, recorded live in Rio in 2015, was released on Nonesuch last year. Caetano Veloso, who was at that performance, says: “With Cartola's songs, Teresa's artistry really shows. Her elegance on stage, the simultaneous spontaneity and decorum of every gesture, the humor, the tone, impeccable intonation—all combine in this true creator-singer, a genuine artist."

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Audra McDonald is joined by a very special guest, her husband, fellow Broadway star Will Swenson, for two performances out West this weekend: at the Hoffman Theatre at Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek, California, tonight, and the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts in Arizona on Saturday, the latter a sold-out show with Seth Rudetsky of Sirius/XM Satellite Radio’s On Broadway as host and pianist.

McDonald is nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award and an NAACP Image Award for her role as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill on HBO. The SAG Awards ceremony will air live on TNT and TBS this Sunday; the NAACP Image Awards ceremony will air live on TV ONE on Saturday, February 11.

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Pat Metheny continues his month-long US tour with drummer Antonio Sánchez, pianist Gwilym Simcock, and bassist Linda Oh, with shows at the River Center for the Performing Arts in Columbus, Georgia, on Saturday, and Jemison Concert Hall in Birmingham, Alabama, on Sunday. “Every chance I get to play is a privilege,” Metheny told the Ledger Enquirer in an interview ahead of Saturday’s show. You can read what else he had to say here.

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Conor Oberst continues his three-week European tour with shows at La Maroquinerie in Paris on Saturday and Hertz in Utrecht, Netherlands, on Sunday. Oberst will release a new album, Salutations, on Nonesuch on March 17. The album is a companion piece to his 2016 solo album, Ruminations, and includes full-band versions of that album’s ten songs, plus seven additional songs. The album is available to pre-order now.

On his tour stop in Oslo earlier this week, Oberst stopped by Norway’s NRK P3 to talk with host Ruben about his music and perform songs from the new albums live. You can hear it at radio.nrk.no.

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Joshua Redman plays three shows as special guest of Umphrey's McGee in the Northeast this weekend: at the State Theatre in Portland, Maine, tonight, the Palace Theatre in Albany, New York, on Saturday, and Anthology in Rochester on Sunday.

Redman released a duo album with pianist Brad Mehldau, Nearness, last year on Nonesuch Records. The album has been nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album. It is among the Best Jazz Albums of 2016 according to Glide and NPR Music's jazz critics, and Jazzwise includes it among the Albums of the Year, calling it "outstanding ... it’s all about serving the song and playing in the moment.”