The staged production of Gabriel Kahane’s Nonesuch albums Book of Travelers and Magnificent Bird at Playwrights Horizons’ Peter Jay Sharp Theater in New York City, which began in previews on Tuesday, officially opens with performances of each this weekend. Performances were recently extended to October 13, with shows alternating between the two albums. In anticipation of the Playwrights Horizons production, Nonesuch released a new recording of “Red Letter Days” last month; you can hear it here. Kahane wrote the song in October 2020, during the final month of a year spent off the internet, at the height of the pandemic; the previously unreleased track will be performed by Kahane as part of the production.

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Composer and trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire plays a free solo set at Rockefeller Chapel in Chicago on Saturday as part of the Hyde Park Jazz Festival. Akinmusire was named Trumpeter of the Year in the DownBeat Critics Poll, and his Nonesuch debut album, Owl Song, featuring Bill Frisell and Herlin Riley, made the Jazz Albums of the Year list. "A quiet rush of gorgeous sound where space, tone and beauty come together in one of the most impactful albums of 2023," says DownBeat. "This is one of the most interesting recordings to come along in a very long time by one of the most interesting artists of our time."

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Sam Amidon performs in Nobodaddy, a new work by choreographer Michael Keegan Dolan, with Teaċ Daṁsa dance company, at the O'Reilly Theatre in Dublin, Ireland, tonight and tomorrow, as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival. Nobodaddy is a large-scale dance and theatre piece for nine dancers and six musicians including Amidon. Performances in the sold-out run continue through October 5.

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Soprano Julia Bullock is joined by pianist Conor Hanick and choreographer/dancers Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber for the US premiere of American Modern Opera Company (AMOC)’s production of Olivier Messiaen’s Harawi at Zellerbach Hall in San Francisco tonight. The production, directed by Zack Winokur, explores the relationship between movement and music in Messiaen’s work. Bullock’s acclaimed 2022 solo debut album, Walking in the Dark, won the Grammy Award for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album. Bullock is “one of the singular artists of her generation,” says the New York Times, “a singer of enveloping tone, startlingly mature presence and unusually sophisticated insight into culture, society and history.”

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Hurray for the Riff Raff, aka Alynda Segarra, brings music from their new album, The Past Is Still Alive, to the Soundside Music Festival in Bridgeport, Connecticut, on Sunday. Segarra was recently on NPR’s World Cafe, whose host Raina Douris says: "On Hurray for the Riff Raff's latest album, The Past Is Still Alive, songwriter Alynda Segarra acts as a reanimator, casting the old American cowboy myth in a new light, crafting heroic legends for long-lost friends of theirs, and finding ways to commune with their father, who they lost right before recording the album," Raina Douris, host of NPR's World Cafe, says of her guest. "I love this record." You can hear their conversation here.

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Cécile McLorin Salvant, accompanied by pianist Glenn Zaleski, is in New England to perform at Jimmy’s Jazz and Blues Club in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, tonight and Groton Hill Music Center in Groton, Massachusetts, tomorrow. Salvant was named Female Vocalist of the Year in the DownBeat Critics Poll, and her latest album, Mélusine, made the Jazz Albums of the Year list. “The massively creative vocalist delivers a tour de force in several languages recounting the legend of Mélusine,” the magazine says.

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Singer, composer, and producer Gustavo Santaolalla kicked off his tour celebrating the 25th anniversary of his beloved and critically acclaimed album Ronroco in Porto last night, followed by a performance at Palacio de la Ópera in A Coruña, Spain, on Sunday. The tour continues through October 15 with shows in Turkey, UAE, Czechia, Finland, England, and the Netherlands. The album, first released on Nonesuch in 1998, was given its first-ever vinyl release in a newly remastered edition out this past January. The Grammy and Academy Award winner’s classic album—which takes its name from a South American stringed instrument—comprises twelve original tunes inspired by traditional Argentinean music and influenced by music of Japan, Africa, and Eastern Europe. “Ronroco conjures bucolic images and feelings for me,” filmmaker Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu writes in the new liner note. “There’s always a note that surprises, breaks the pattern of the rainstorm, turning into silence, a gentle drizzle, or escalating into a tempest.”

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Caroline Shaw joins Kamu String Quartet at Concertgebouw Brugge in Bruges, Belgium, on Sunday. Featured on the program are pieces from Shaw and Attacca Quartet’s 2022 Nonesuch release, Evergreen, as well as works by Josquin, Scarlatti, and Beethoven. Shaw's original score to Ken Burns's upcoming documentary LEONARDO da VINCI, due October 25, features performances by Sō Percussion, Attacca, and Roomful of Teeth. A new track from the score, "The Last Supper," was released yesterday; you can hear it here.

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Davóne Tines and his band THE TRUTH—pianist John Bitoy and sound artist Khari Lucas—perform music from their new work, ROBESOИ, at Zipper Hall in Los Angeles, tonight. “What I try to do artistically is show that people can be multiple, they can be all the facets of themselves at one time," Tines tells San Francisco Classical Voice ahead of the concert. "We’re all not just one thing. We all don’t just express ourselves in one vein." "Tines proves a masterful storyteller whose work is compellingly provocative,” Mojo says in its four-star review of ROBESON. You can hear the album here.

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Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway are at The Meadows in Buena Vista, Colorado this weekend, performing at Billy Strings: Renewal 2024 on Saturday. The band’s new six-song EP, Into the Wild, was released last week on Nonesuch. A follow-up to their Grammy-winning and critically acclaimed 2023 album, City of Gold, the EP features three new songs—the title track, “Getaway Girl,” and a cover of Kate Wolf’s “Here in California”—as well as previously released covers of Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit” and Olivia Rodrigo’s “good 4 u” and an alternate version of the City of Gold track “Stranger Things.” You can hear it here.

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Guitarist and composer Yasmin Williams performs music from her new album, Acadia, out next week, at The Met in Philadelphia on Sunday, supporting Michael Kiwanuka and Brittany Howard on their North American tour through October 19. “Nobody plays the guitar like Yasmin Williams,” The Fader says. “[Acadia] takes her sound into new territory … Worth every minute of an almost four-year wait.” Williams “looks out on the world with unbound curiosity and zeal, every coruscant melody and glowing harmony another discovery,” Mojo adds.