Kronos Quartet help celebrate the opening weekend of the new St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn, with two performances alongside the Brooklyn Youth Chorus on Saturday, including a free noontime performance and a ticketed set in the evening. The evening show features world premieres by Mary Kouyoumdjian and Sahba Aminikia; and works for the Brooklyn Youth Chorus by Bryce Dessner, Caroline Shaw, Richard Reed Parry, Aleksandra Vrebalov, and Jherek Bischoff. Joining the BYC is the Bulgarian a cappella trio Black Sea Hotel and other special guests.

Sam Amidon also takes part in St. Ann’s opening celebrations, joining Aoife O'Donovan and Thomas Bartlett in Songs from Home, a program exploring Irish and American traditional music, on Sunday evening.

Kronos Quartet remains in New York to perform George Crumb’s iconic, Vietnam War–inspired piece Black Angels at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum on Tuesday, followed by a discussion with WNYC’s John Schaefer and Dr. Steven Bruns, an associate professor of music and expert on Crumb.

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John Adams leads the Concertgebouw Orchestra and violinist Leila Josefowicz in a performance of his new piece Scheherazade.2 at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam tonight, following last night’s European premiere of the work. This "dramatic symphony" for violin and orchestra was written for Josefowicz. In it, Adams reflects on the hardship and unfair treatment of women throughout history, with the violinist representing the legendary Scheherazade. Also on the Concertgebouw program is his 1986 piece Tromba Lontana.

Coincidentally, Dutch audiences are able to hear still more of Adams’ work this weekend, as the Rotterdam Philharmonic and conductor Reinbert de Leeuw perform Absolute Jest at de Doelen in Rotterdam tonight.

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The Bad Plus Joshua Redman hit the road behind their self-titled debut, released on Nonesuch this past May. They play the Symphony Center in Chicago tonight, the Wisconsin Union Theater in Madison on Saturday, and The Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel, Indiana, on Sunday.

The New York Times calls the group’s debut album “a knockout,” while NPR describes it as "a roaring and beautiful summit meeting."

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Tyondai Braxton plays the X Avant Festival at the Music Gallery in Toronto on Saturday. His Nonesuch debut, HIVE1, was released this past May, with NPR saying that “what sets this album apart is its playfulness—the feeling that experimenting with sound is a joyful game rather than an academic exercise.”

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Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club, a core band featuring several of the original musicians from Buena Vista Social Club, takes its "Adios" tour to Texas, with a sold-out show at Trinity University’s Laurie Auditorium, in San Antonio, on Saturday and the Long Center for the Performing Arts, in Austin, on Sunday. The group became the first Cuba-based act to perform at The White House in half a century, when its members played for guests at a Hispanic Heritage Month reception with President Obama yesterday.

The original Buena Vista Social Club album, which became a cultural phenomenon and helped introduce Cuba's rich musical heritage and pre-revolutionary past to the world, will be reissued on vinyl by World Circuit Records on October 30 and is available to pre-order in North America in the Nonesuch Store.

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Jeremy Denk gives two solo performances in Canada, first at Raven’s Cry Theatre in Sechelt, British Columbia, on Saturday and then at the Chan Center in Vancouver on Sunday. The Washington Post, reviewing Denk’s performance at the Kennedy Center last weekend, praised his ability for “expressing virtuosity, humor, nostalgia and experimental daring” as well as his “inimitable sensibility … alive to the work’s poetry, wit, impulsiveness and off-beat yet irresistible charm.”

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Richard Goode joins the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Jeffrey Kahane, with Wade Culbreath on marimba, for “Mozart to Marimba,” playing selections from Mozart, Haydn, Emmanuel Séjourné, as well as the West Coast premiere of Timo Andres’s Word of Mouth. It all takes place at UCLA’s Royce Hall on Sunday.

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Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell bring the latest leg of their US tour to a close, performing music from their two duo albums, The Traveling Kind and Old Yellow Moon, and much more at Clayton Center for the Arts in Maryville, Tennessee, on Saturday, and the Lexington Opera House in Lexington, Kentucky, on Sunday.

The tour has been well received across the country, with the Minneapolis Star Tribune calling it “a savvy late-career move executed brilliantly … a double-scoop treat with a cherry on top.”

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Lianne La Havas continues her North American tour with two shows in Southern California, at the Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles tonight and the House of Blues in Anaheim on Sunday, performing songs from her new album, Blood, and her debut album, Is Your Love Big Enough?.

La Havas was the guest on NPR’s World Cafe earlier this week, performing songs from both album. "In 2012, Is Your Love Big Enough? came out, and it was a real breath of fresh air," says host David Dye. "It's really unusual to find any artist, but particularly one so young, who doesn't feel the need to be genre-defined in any way. What a great record ... Blood is here now, the new album, and as you will hear, it's a pretty spectacular record." Listen to the performance and interview here.

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Audra McDonald plays the Peoria Civic Center Theater in Peoria, Illinois, on Saturday.

McDonald performed at the White House earlier this week in "A Celebration of American Creativity," part of the series In Performance at the White House. The event, which also included performers like Buddy Guy, Queen Latifah, Keb' Mo', Smokey Robinson, Esperanza Spalding, Brian Stokes Mitchell, James Taylor, and Usher, will premiere on PBS on Friday, January 8.

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Randy Newman visits Belgium as part of his month-long tour of Europe and the UK, playing at Concertgebouw in Bruges tonight and Ancienne Belgique in Brussels on Saturday.

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Conor Oberst closes out his current run of shows with a performance at the Barrymore Theatre in Madison, Wisconsin, tonight, with support from Larkin Poe and High Up, and a free show in his hometown of Omaha, Nebraska, at the Holland Performing Arts Center on Saturday.

Oberst released his Nonesuch debut, Upside Down Mountain, last year, an album that Paste calls “a great achievement and Conor Oberst’s best work to date.”

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Steve Reich’s 2005 piece "Variations for Vibes, Pianos, and Strings", is the musical setting for New York City Ballet resident choreographer Justin Peck’s new work New Blood, which receives its final performances of the season at Lincoln Center tonight and Saturday.

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Rokia Traoré begins her four-night residency at the Southbank Theatre, as part of the Melbourne Festival in Melbourne, Australia, performing music and playing the role of Barbary in the Othello-inspired Desdemona, her theatrical collaboration with Toni Morrison and director Peter Sellars.

The Los Angeles Times’s Charles McNulty, reviewing last weekend’s LA premiere of Desdemona, says “Traoré's poised humility and attentive stage presence lend great pathos to this production. The accumulated meaning of her aching lyrics and the magnificent vocal music she produces add to the melancholy beauty.” Traoré and company take the production to Sydney next week, for three nights at the Roslyn Packer Theatre, presented by the Sydney Festival.

As recently noted in the Nonesuch Journal, Traoré's sixth album will be released on Nonesuch in early 2016. Further details will be announced shortly, as will upcoming tour dates.

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Junun, the Paul Thomas Anderson documentary exploring the recording sessions of the titular album, which finds Shye Ben Tzur, Johnny Greenwood and the Rajasthan Express in a makeshift studio inside the 15th-century Mehrangarh Fort in Jodhpur, India, screens at the Rome Film Festival on Saturday, Sunday and Monday, following its world premiere at the New York Film Festival last week. The film is also being given a free screening at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco, courtesy of MUBI, which is streaming the film all this month.

“The music soars, and we are right in the middle of it,” says Flavorwire in its review of the film. “The music, the miraculous music … tells a story all its own, with more richness than any film could muster, reaching back centuries into the past, and even further into the future.” The album Junun, due next month on Nonesuch, is available to pre-order with an instant download of the track “Roked.” You can watch a clip from the film, featuring “Roked,” here.