Composer Steve Reich turns 80 next month, and the worldwide celebrations in his honor have begun. This weekend marks the culmination of a multi-event series presented by the San Francisco Symphony and Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas highlighting the composer’s works at Davies Symphony Hall. Reich’s Pulitzer Prize–winning piece Double Sextet is performed by eight blackbird, which recorded the piece for Nonesuch in 2010, and members of SFS, tonight and Saturday. Also on the program are his 1986 piece Three Movements and several works by Copland.

The celebration comes to a close on Sunday with Steve Reich: An American Maverick, a concert hosted by MTT in which eight blackbird performs Double Sextet once more and Kronos Quartet performs Reich’s Different Trains, the moving 1988 piece Reich wrote for Kronos.

The San Francisco Chronicle music critic Joshua Kosman, in a recent feature on the composer titled “Steve Reich at 80: A Musical Master in Motion,” says: “[H]e’s written some of the most intricate and beautiful musical masterpieces of his time, and reshaped the artistic landscape in ways that promise to reverberate for generations to come.”

Also this weekend, Kronos Quartet performs works by Pete Townsend, Laurie Anderson, Geeshie Wiley, and more at the Kresge Auditorium in Greencastle, Indiana, on Saturday.

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Laurie Anderson hosts two advance screenings of the Italian-language version of her film Heart of a Dog at Teatro Franco Parenti in Milan on Sunday. She performs as well; dogs are welcome in the audience. The film, which Anderson has dubbed herself, opens in theaters across Italy next Tuesday and Wednesday. The Italian version of the soundtrack, which contains the full audio recording of the film, is out now on Nonesuch.

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Jeremy Denk makes his debut with the Lansing Symphony Orchestra, joining the orchestra for a performance of Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto at the Wharton Center for Performing Arts in Lansing, Michigan, tonight. Also on the program are works by Respighi and Debussy.

He gives a solo recital, entitled “Music from Bach to Schubert and the Beatles to Ligeti,” at the Fisher Center at Bard College in upstate New York on Sunday afternoon. Among the other composers on the program—which Denk says aims to offer “a musical analogy to time-lapse photography: a journey in two hours through seven centuries of Western music, from the 1300s until the present day”—are Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Debussy, and John Adams.

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Lianne La Havas kicked off an 18-concert tour as special guest of R&B artist and singer, songwriter Leon Bridges in Vermont yesterday, which continues with a sold-out show at Thompson’s Point in Portland, Maine, tonight, and shows at the Filene Center at Wolf Trap in Vienna, Virginia, on Saturday, and DPAC in Durham, North Carolina, on Sunday.

La Havas's Grammy Award–nominated second album, Blood, was released last year to critical acclaim; Pitchfork called it "dynamic and poignantly self-assured in its introspection … an almost seamless album."

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Pat Metheny began a US tour with drummer Antonio Sánchez, pianist Gwilym Simcock, and bassist Linda Oh at yesterday's Opening Night concert of the SFJAZZ Center’s 2016–17 concert season; they give additional Opening Week performances each day this weekend at Miner Auditorium in San Francisco. The musicians continue to tour the US through the end of the month, and again early next year. The Guardian gave a recent concert from the group four stars, calling it a "tour de force from an improv king" four stars. “…The rapport within this newly minted band was unmistakable."

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Chris Thile plays two nights with banjoist Béla Fleck: at Ives Concert Park in Danbury, Connecticut, on Saturday, and the Lexington Opera House in Lexington, Kentucky, on Sunday. “Although a generation apart in age,” says the Lexington Herald Leader, “banjo great Fleck and mandolinist Thile have the same virtuosic but stylistically inquisitive nature to their music.”

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Rokia Traoré performs at Fête de l'Humanité in Paris on Saturday afternoon. She will perform again in Paris next month and then head to North America to tour later this fall.

Traoré released her sixth album, Né So, on Nonesuch earlier this year. The Times says: "Traoré has made the album of her career."