The Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA (CAP UCLA) has announced its 2016–17 season, and featured among the artists performing this season are several artists familiar to readers of the Nonesuch Journal: Pat Metheny, Kronos Quartet, and The Magnetic Fields. The season also includes a dance performance set to music by Laurie Anderson and more.

Pat Metheny kicks off the CAP UCLA season with a performance on Thursday, September 15, at Royce Hall, where he last performed 14 years ago. Joining Metheny to perform music from throughout his career are Antonio Sanchez on drums, Linda Oh on bass, Gwilym Simcock on piano.

Kronos Quartet brings the multimedia work Beyond Zero: 1914-1918 to Royce Hall on Friday, October 7. The piece, with music by Serbian composer Aleksandra Vrebalov and film by Bill Morrison, commemorates the centenary of the First World War. In conjunction with the performance is Art in Action: Hearing Beyond Listening, a week-long series of activities delving into the themes addressed in the piece.

Also in October are two performances by Cullberg Ballet dancers of Figure a Sea, a piece with choreography by Deborah Hay set to music and sound score by Laurie Anderson, on Saturday, October 15, and Sunday, October 16, marking the Swedish company's LA debut.

The Magnetic Fields are at Royce Hall for two nights—Thursday, April 27, and Friday, April 28—performing the music of 50 Song Memoir, a new album containing 50 songs from songwriter Stephin Merritt, one for each year of his life, to be released on Nonesuch. In concert the music will be played and sung by seven performers in a stage set featuring 50 years of artifacts both musical (vintage computers, reel-to-reel tape decks, newly invented instruments), and decorative (tiki bar, shag carpet, vintage magazines for the perusal of idle musicians). The seven performers each play seven instruments, traditional (cello, charango, clavichord) or invented in the last 50 years (Slinky guitar, Swarmatron, synthesizer).

Among the season's other highlights are a performance of John Adams's 1989 piece The Wound-Dresser by the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra led by Carlos Kalmar on a program with works by Lutosławski, Haydn, and Rossini, on Sunday, February 26; a concert led by Wilco guitarist Nels Cline on Saturday, April 8; and Bill Frisell with Reuben Rogers, Eric Harland, and Greg Leisz joining Charles Lloyd & The Marvels on Friday, April 14.

Series subscriptions and create-your-own-series tickets are on sale now; individual tickets go on sale Friday, July 15. For additional performance and ticket details, go to cap.ucla.edu.