This lucky Friday the 13th, Robert Plant and his band the Sensational Space Shifters begin a two-week tour of Latin America with performances at Vive Latino Festival in Foro Sol, Mexico tonight and Lollapalooza Chile in Santiago Sunday night. The tour—featuring music from Plant’s 2014 Nonesuch/Warner Bros. debut album, lullaby and… The Ceaseless Roar, and more—continues with additional shows in Chile, Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil, including Lollapalooza sets in Buenos Aires and São Paolo.

As noted earlier this week in the Nonesuch Journal, Robert Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters will release a Record Store Day exclusive EP on April 18. Entitled More Roar, the record features three tracks on black 10” vinyl recorded live during the group’s lullaby and... The Ceaseless Roar World Tour 2014.

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John Adams’s Chamber Symphony and Son of Chamber Symphony are on the program for this weekend’s concerts by the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra: the former on Saturday’s concert at Ordway Concert Hall in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota, and Sunday’s concert at Benson Great Hall in Arden Hills; the latter on today’s concerts at the Ordway. Both programs feature Mahler’s Fourth Symphony arranged for chamber ensemble. Son of Chamber Symphony is also the setting for a piece by choreographer Stanton Welch performed by The Joffrey Ballet at Zellerbach Hall in Berkeley, California, Saturday and Sunday.

On the opera stage, Adams’s Doctor Atomic (2005) receives its Spanish premiere at Teatro de la Maestranza in Sevilla tonight; San Diego Opera begins a run of performances of Adams’s first opera, Nixon in China (1987), at the Civic Theatre in San Diego on Saturday; and Göteborg Opera performs his latest opera, A Flowering Tree (2006), on Sunday.

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Laurie Anderson brings her latest performance piece, The Language of the Future, to Oz Arts Nashville for a two-day engagement that began last night and continues tonight. The Nashville Scene, in a feature article previewing the performances, describes the piece as "a darkly satirical miscellany of songs and stories that ponder the meaning of life in America."

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Bombino wraps up his tour of Oceania this weekend in New Zealand with two appearances at New Zealand WOMAD: The World’s Festival on Saturday and Sunday. The Cairns Post, reviewing a recent performance in Australia, says Bombino "thrilled the audience with his electrifying playing."

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Jeremy Denk continues his tour with Academy of St. Martin in the Fields with two concerts in California this weekend: at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica tonight and at Soka University in Aliso Viejo, California on Saturday. Tonight’s program features Stravinsky’s Concerto in D, Bach’s Keyboard Concertos No. 1 and No. 5, and Dvorák’s Serenade for Strings in E Major. The Saturday program replacves the Dvorák with Stravinsky's Apollo.

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Richard Goode performs an all-Beethoven program at Amsterdam’s Het Concertgebouw as a part of the hall's Master Pianists series on Saturday night. The program includes Sonatas 30, 31, and 32 as well as Eleven Bagatelles, op. 119. Goode has been described by the Globe and Mail as “one of the great Beethoven interpreters of our time,” and famously released a set of the complete Beethoven Sonatas on Nonesuch in 1993.

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Kronos Quartet heads to the University of Wisconsin’s Union Theater in Madison to perform a typically eclectic program on Saturday night, including Vladimir Martynov’s The Beatitudes, as heard on the group's 2012 album Music of Vladimir Martynov, and Geeshie Wiley's Last Kind Words, which label mate Rhiannon Giddens also performs on her solo debut album, Tomorrow Is My Turn. Also on the program are works by Laurie Anderson, Terry Riley, Jelly Roll Morton, Charles Mingus, and others.

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Audra McDonald continues her extensive US tour with a performance at Fox Theatre in Tucson Sunday night. "Broadway legend Audra McDonald was in spectacular voice for her concert Tuesday night," raves the Houston Chronicle. "Of course, saying Audra McDonald was in spectacular voice by now is like noting that the sun rose in the east; McDonald is likewise a force of nature, reliably brilliant and apt to set spectators crowing."

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Brad Mehldau and Mark Guiliana's electric duo Mehliana concludes its tour of Asia with three performances this weekend, including two sets at the Blue Note in Tokyo tonight and a culminating concert at Woori Art Hall in Seoul, South Korea, on Saturday. The concerts feature music from the duo's 2014 debut album, Mehliana: Taming the Dragon.

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Punch Brothers have got American televsion covered this weekend. Tune in Saturday morning as the band performs songs from their latest album, The Phosphorescent Blues, on CBS This Morning Saturday. Then tune in to PBS stations across the country for an encore presentation of their performance on Austin City Limits, which first aired in the 2012-13 season, featuring music from their previous album, Who's Feeling Young Now?.

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Steve Reich’s landmark piece Drumming (1970–71) is the setting for two dance pieces coincidentally being performed on opposite ends of the earth this weekend: Hubbard Street Dance Chicago performs choreographer Jirí Kylián’s Falling Angels, set to part one of the piece, at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance in Chicago Friday through Sunday; and AnneTeresa de Keersmaeker’s company Rosas performs her piece Drumming at the National Performing Arts Center in Taipei, Taiwan, also through Sunday.

Another seminal Reich work, Music for 18 Musicians, is the setting for a participatory dance piece by choreographer Sylvain Groud with Ensemble Links at the Philharmonie in Paris on Saturday and Sunday. (Nonesuch will reissue its Grammy Award–winning 1998 recording of the piece on vinyl for Record Store Day, April 18.) Also at the Philharmonie Saturday evening, soloists from Ensemble Intercontemporain perform Reich’s Nagoya Marimbas on a program of chamber music.