Joshua Redman takes Still Dreaming to Lincoln Center in NYC … A Nonesuch Celebration pays tribute to Bob Hurwitz at BAM … Sam Amidon joins Anaïs Mitchell in Vermont … Teresa Cristina returns to Rio de Janeiro … Jeremy Denk concludes run with Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra … Rhiannon Giddens is in the UK … Richard Goode gives solo recital in Nebraska … Tigran Hamasyan performs in Belgium … Audra McDonald is in New Orleans … Brad Mehldau brings Bach to Boston … and more …

This Saturday, April 1, BAM in Brooklyn hosts a concert in tribute to Bob Hurwitz, who for the past three decades served as the president of Nonesuch Records. On the program: the world premiere of piano music written expressly for him by Nonesuch artists including John Adams, Laurie Anderson, Timo Andres, Louis Andriessen, Donnacha Dennehy, Philip Glass, Adam Guettel, Brad Mehldau, Pat Metheny, Nico Muhly, Randy Newman, and Steve Reich, plus performances from Nonesuch albums by Kronos Quartet, k.d. lang, Natalie Merchant, Stephin Merritt, Metheny, Mandy Patinkin, Chris Thile, Dawn Upshaw, Caetano Veloso, and others.

Dan Auerbach will release Waiting on a Song, his second solo album, on June 2, via his new label, Easy Eye Sound. The album is Auerbach's much anticipated follow-up to 2009's Keep It Hid and is a love letter to Nashville. As such, he recruited some of Nashville's most respected players to write and record his latest, including John Prine, Duane Eddy, Jerry Douglas, Pat McLaughlin, and Bobby Wood and Gene Chrisman of the Memphis Boys. Auerbach said about working with his musical heroes: "Living in Nashville has definitely changed the way I think about music and the way that I record it. I didn't have all of these resources before. I am working with some of the greatest musicians that ever lived." You can watch the video for the album's first single, "Shine on Me," here.

Sam Amidon's new album, The Following Mountain, will be released May 26, 2017, on Nonesuch. The album represents a new approach for Amidon, who shifts here from his previous norm of re-working traditional folk songs and presents nine wholly original compositions, with some lyrics drawing on traditional sources. The Following Mountain was created with producer Leo Abrahams and frequent Amidon collaborator Shahzad Ismaily, with a rare guest appearance by drummer Milford Graves. Nonesuch Store pre-orders include an exclusive autographed print and an instant download of the album track "Juma Mountain." You can watch a lyric video for the song here.

The Magnetic Fields have unveiled the video for "'05 Never Again," from their new album, 50 Song Memoir. The song is one of fifty on the five-disc set that chronicles the fifty years of songwriter Stephin Merritt's life with one song per year. You can watch the video here. The video was created by Stephanie Beattie, Alex Basco Koch, and José Zayas; produced by Ghost Corporeal. It was originally created for the Magnetic Fields' 50 Song Memoir concert tour directed by Zayas.

Fleet Foxes, which will release its highly anticipated third album, Crack-Up, June 16, has announced four special shows at select intimate theaters in the Pacific Northwest May 15–19. These performances will be the band's first US shows in six years and include dates at Missoula’s The Wilma, Spokane’s Knitting Factory, Portland’s Crystal Ballroom, and a hometown show at Seattle’s Showbox at the Market. Tickets will go on sale this Friday, March 31.

The Staves recently stopped by Yellow Couch Studio in Pittsburgh while on their US tour and performed two songs for the studio's sessions series: "Make It Holy," from the 2015 album If I Was, and a take on Jackson Browne's "These Days." "It's hard to imagine a more enchanting and talented trio than The Staves," says Yellow Couch. "A regular heap of rare and impressive talents, The Staves are!" You can watch the performances here.

Stephin Merritt, currently on tour with The Magnetic Fields performing 50 Song Memoir, recently took director Barbara Anastacio on a tour of his home in Hudson, New York, for the latest episode of the Nowness series My Place. "If I'd known they'd be tacking on buzzy trumpets," says Merritt, "I would have enunciated and declaimed." You can watch it here.

The Magnetic Fields have unveiled the video for "'01 Have You Seen It in the Snow?," from their new album, 50 Song Memoir. The song is one of fifty on the five-disc set that chronicles the fifty years of songwriter Stephin Merritt's life with one song per year. You can watch the video here. The video was created by Alex Basco Koch and José Zayas, produced by Ghost Corporeal. It was originally created for the Magnetic Fields' 50 Song Memoir concert tour directed by Zayas.

Rhiannon Giddens brings Freedom Highway tour to Amsterdam, Brussels … Tyondai Braxton tours UK … Jeremy Denk joins Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra … Tigran Hamasyan performs in France … Kronos Quartet is at Notre Dame … The Magnetic Fields bring 50 Song Memoir to Big Ears Festival … Conor Oberst plays Midwest … Joshua Redman takes Still Dreaming to SFJAZZ … Chris Thile rounds out European tour in London, Hamburg … Caetano Veloso, Teresa Cristina perform in São Paulo ... and more ...

Steve Reich spoke with WNYC's New Sounds and shared music from his season-long Carnegie Hall residency, which resumes with a performance of his Tehillim tonight and the upcoming Three Generations, a four-concert, Reich-curated exploration of the changing direction of concert music from the mid-20th century to the present. You can hear the episode and get concert details here.

Yo-Yo Ma, Chris Thile, and Edgar Meyer have shared their recording of J.S. Bach's Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645, from their forthcoming album, Bach Trios. You can hear it here and download the track now when you pre-order the album, along with a previously released track, the first movement of Bach's Trio Sonata No. 6 in G Major, BWV 530. Bach Trios, due April 7, comprises works by Bach originally written for keyboard instruments, plus one sonata for viola da gamba.