While on your way to enjoy all of this great live music, stop by your favorite local record store to hear a mix of Nonesuch tunes as part of Tomorrow Is Listening, a 24-hour event from our friends at International Anthem in which curated mixes by labels, including this very one, will broadcast live from Lumpen Radio to more than 50 record stores around the world all day Friday. You can find one near you at intlanthem.com/tomorrow.

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Kronos Quartet is at MASS MoCA, in North Adams, Massachusetts, for Bang on a Can’s Loud Weekend, performing the music of 50 for the Future composer Nicole Lizée tonight and a program of works by Michael Gordon, Terry Riley, and more on Saturday.

The group’s acclaimed 1995 album, Kronos Quartet Performs Philip Glass, gets its first-ever vinyl release on November 3 to coincide with Kronos: Five Decades, a year-long celebration of the quartet's 50th anniversary. You can pre-order the vinyl here. “It contains some of Glass's best music since Koyaanisqatsi,” said the New York Times. “His ear for sumptuous string sonorities is undeniable.” The Washington Post called it “an ideal combination of composer and performers.”

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Classical singer Julia Bullock takes part in three concerts at Gichi-ziibi Center for the Arts in Brainerd, Minnesota, this weekend, as part of Lake Area Music Festival. She joins the LAMF Orchestra, conducted by her husband, Christian Reif, to perform works by George Gershwin, Margaret Bonds, and James P. Johnson at tonight’s Gala program: The Golden Age of Jazz. They perform Berlioz's Les nuits d’été as part of the festival’s Summer Nights program, on Saturday night and Sunday afternoon. Bullock won the Opus Klassik award in Germany last month as the Breakout Artist of the Year for her 2022 debut solo album, Walking in the Dark, and was nominated for the Edison Classical Award in the Netherlands in the Solo Vocalist category earlier this month.

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Multi-instrumentalist, producer, and composer Yussef Dayes follows two sold-out shows at Yoshi’s in Oakland tonight with a set on the Blue Note Stage at Silverado Resort in Napa on Saturday, for Blue Note Jazz Festival. Dayes' debut solo studio album, Black Classical Music, is due September 8 via Brownswood Recordings, Warner Music, and Cashmere Thoughts Recordings and in the US on Nonesuch Records. He released two new tracks from the album earlier this month: “Marching Band,” featuring Masego, and “Tioga Pass,” featuring Rocco Palladino; you can hear them both here.

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Pianist Jeremy Denk joins the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Mei-Ann Chen, at Ravinia Pavilion in Highland Park on Sunday for The American Experience with Music of Price and Copland, a program featuring Aaron Copland's Symphony No. 3, Florence Price's Ethiopia's Shadow in America, and Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4. Denk was on the Speaking Soundly podcast last week to talk with host and MET Opera Principal Trumpet David Krauss about his acclaimed memoir, Every Good Boy Does Fine, share lessons he learned from numerous piano teachers over the years, and more; you can hear their conversation here.

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Pianist Richard Goode is in England to perform an all-Beethoven program at St. John the Evangelist Church in Oxford, on Sunday, as part of the Oxford Piano Festival. On the program are Six Bagatelles from Op. 119, nos. 6–11; Sonata No. 30 in E major, Op. 109; and 33 Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli, Op. 120. Gramophone calls Goode's Grammy-nominated, ten-disc set of the complete Beethoven sonatas, released on Nonesuch in 1993, “one of the finest interpretations ever put on record.”

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Hurray for the Riff Raff, aka Alynda Segarra, brings music from their acclaimed 2022 Nonesuch debut album, LIFE ON EARTH, and more to Canada for a full weekend at the Calgary Folk Festival in Prince's Island Park. They play a set this afternoon, after which Segarra takes part in collaborative sessions with Jean Grant, The Weather Station, and Nina Nastasia on Saturday and with Kacy & Clayton, Courtney Marie Andrews, and The Paper Kites on Sunday.

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Natalie Merchant joins countertenor and Glimmerglass Festival artist-in-residence Anthony Roth Costanzo for a Glimmerglass event at Alice Busch Opera Theatre in Cooperstown, New York, on Sunday, for Cantico, a program that explores Merchant’s catalogue, including reimagined and previously unheard pieces. They are joined by other musicians from the festival, including members of its Young Artists program, for the event. Merchant was on a recent episode of the Song Exploder podcast to talk with host Hrishikesh Hirway about the track "Sister Tilly" from her new album, Keep Your Courage. You can hear what she had to say here.

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Chris Thile kicks off his inaugural Acousticamp—a four-day celebration of acoustic music, offering masterclasses, workshops, and activities for fans and all levels of musicians—at Glen Cove Mansion in Glen Cove, New York, on Sunday, running through Wednesday. He and his fellow instructor/collaborators explore the width and breadth of acoustic music practice, performance, and composition, anchored by but not limited to string band instruments and vernacular singing, buoyed by coffee and cocktails, and bookended by intimate concerts from Nickel Creek, Punch Brothers, and Madison Cunningham.

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Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway bring music from their critically acclaimed new album, City of Gold, released last week, to Planet Bluegrass Ranch in Lyons, Colorado, on Sunday, to headline RockyGrass Festival. "With City of Gold, Molly Tuttle continues her ascent," writes PopMatters, declaring it “one of the year's best albums.” American Songwriter, in its four-star review, calls the album an "astute blend of bluegrass and Americana ... this City of Gold shines bright indeed." “A vibrant blend of bluegrass with flashes of Old West, anchored by Tuttle’s earthy-yet-angelic vocal and the entire group’s ace musicianship,” says Billboard. Glide calls it “bluegrass at its vibrant best.”